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VOL. Ill, NO. 185
GLADEWATER, TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1952
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Russia's Army Leaders Warn
Have Atomic Weapons
'Please Make Them Understand"
Teacher Absolved From Guilt
In Death Of Whipped Boy
TEMPLE, Feb. 23 (U.R)—An au- i 11:30 p.m. f riday in is,
topsy proved Saturday that a \ Daughters hospital without
grieving Texas mother was right: gaining consciousness.
when she absolved an assistant
high school principal who paddled
her son of any blame for the
hemorhuge that killed the boy.
Her 15-year-old son, Donald
Wayne Cartwright, was paddled
on the seat of his pants five times
by the assistant principal. Phillip
L. Loving, for ‘‘cutting up" in vo-
cational agriculture class Thurs-
day.
A few minutes after he'd had
his punishment, Donald slumped
over his desk unconscious, from a
brain hemorrhage. He died at
The photographer climbed high on a ladder to get the full benefit
of this grin from Johnny Aldridge, who really hasn't much to grin
about. All the other kids in Parkland's polio ward had their pic-
tures in the paper. Johnny wanted a write-up and picture, too.
And so , . .
The Things He Loves
Decorates Iron Lung
American Legion
Meeting Centered
On Membership
King's*
re-1
"I can’t have people thinking!
Mr. Loving was the cause of this," !
his mother, Mrs. I. L. Cartwright, |
said before he died. Mr. Loving i
came and got me to take me to |
the hospital.
'Wasn’t Mr. Loving's Fault*
“The doctors explained to me
what happened and it wasn’t Mr.
Loving's fault in any way.”
She asked for an autopsy and
the report Saturday said a brain
hemorrhage was the cause of!
death. It said that the hemorrhage'
was brought on by "underlying [
rheumatic fever of some duration ‘
with a super-imposed bacteria in-
fection.”
In the past week or 10 days, the
autopsy report said, he had suf-
fered hemorrhages of the liver,
spleen and lungs—all before he
was paddled—and also had bron-
chial pneumonia.
Before Donald Wayne died,
Shades Of Bygone Days
Modern Weapons Second
To None Are Now Ready
MOSCOW. Feb. 23 (UP)—Soviet army leaders and Russian
newspapers Saturday served notice that Russia possesses
“atom bombs of all calibers” and warned the West that any
aggressor will be met with “crushing, deadly blows.”
The claim that “atom bombs of various calibers have been
developed and tested” clearly implied that Russia has in her
arsenal tactical atomic weapons to match those recently de-
veloped and tested in the United States.
The claims and the warnings*----— -----—_
were echoed by every top-ranking
military leader and in editorials in
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Py Marry McCormick
Once upon a time, at they say
|n all kid tlorics, there wan « little
boy named Johnny Aldridge.
Johnny is seven and his home is
in Gladewatcr But because he has
polio in the worst way, Johnny
lives most of the time in un iron
ping at Parkland Hospital.
lie didn’t seem to mind so much
that he could mow neither arms
nor legs. Nor thut he had lost most
Use of his hands and feet.
What troubled Johnny was, he
was the only kid in polio who
hadn’t had his picture in the paper
and bean written up.
Now, considering Johnny’s age
and hia condition, this is u serious
oversight. So, here’s where Johnny
gets the works.
You sec, when kids get written
up, with their pictures in the
paper, tots of people send them
cards and letters, and occasionally
little gifts.
Judy Sullivan, in a rocking bed
in Johnny’* -oom. gets scads of
mall. Sho wax written up in her
homo-town paper at Ennis.
But the postman, said to ring
twice, has never rung even once
for Johnny.
Anc( there was Jimmie Newton,
the lit tie boy from Henderson who
lost the toughest fight against polio
that Parkland nurses ever saw. He
got oodles of mail, and footballs
autographed by the whole Baylor
team.
JMnco Jimmie Ims gone, Johnny
has taken up the fight right where
Jimmie left off. Both kids were
completely paralyzed. But Johnny
can swallow. Hu swallowed four
eggs for breakfast Tuesday morn-
ing, to say nothing of his milk.
He hasn’t talked, though, except
to his mother. Mrs. Thomas V. Al-
dridge, who has moved to Dallus to
be near her son. The nurses nil
love the kid. He loves the nurses,
but the best they could gel out of
the kid was a very contagious,
partly toothless grin.
That Is, until Tuesday. Then
those fellows came and mude
Johnny's picture. And a chicken-
hearted reporter brought him two
copies of It.
As soon as the reporter left, and
Johnny was alone with Miss Mur-
tha Malloy, one of his nurses, he
began to talk like u house afire.
He has a hole in hts throat, trach-
eotomy, they call it, and it is hard
for the boy to talk.
“Gee whlllikins," he confided to
Miss Malloy, "they really took my
picture. Just look at them! I am
going to have my mama frame
them both, <ue lor me and one for
Daddy.”
Malloy, alrcudy In love with thut
grin, blew her nose. She dabbed at
her eyes with her handkerchief.
“The best medicine," she finally
managed to say, “doesn't always
comefrom pills or bottles."
But Johnny did not understand,
and besides ho wanted to talk
about his pictures.
Johnnv last week told his moth-
the paper like the other kids. She
told Miss Malloy. That's how the
conspiracy was hatched.
Johnny has a tough fight on
his hands. He got worse last week
and doctors put him back in the
lung and off the rocking bed.
’’We’ve simply got to keep him
there and build him up more,”
they said.
Johnny's iron lung is decorated
with the things he loves. There is
a glistening gold airplane, a real
wild plastic Indian with the Lone
Kanger and a cowboy nearby to
make sure the blood-thirsty Indian
behaves and leaves Johnny alone.
But Johnny's fight is neither
with Indians nor cowboys. It is a
fight with polio, and whether
Johnny wins or not is a moot ques-
tion these days.
The odds mostly are against him,
save for three things: His ability
to swallow, his lusty appetite and
that heart-warming grin.
boy's hand. Loving was almost
prostrated when Donald Wayne
died and Mrs. Cartwright invited
him to stay with the family Satur-!
day. In u further attempt to im-
press upon him that they hold i
nothing against him.
Drillers Use New
Mud In 18,660
Deep Hole
| DALLAS, Feb. 23 (U.R)—An es-
pecially compounded mud has en-
abled oil well drillers to sink the
fourth deepest hole ever drilled by
man in Allen Paris, La. Bottom
hole temperatures run up to 326
degrees, 114 degrees above boil-
ing.
At last report, the well, which
the Magnolia Petroleum Co. to
drilling, was 18,660 feet deep, in
the limestone where dinosaurs
used to walk perhaps 100 million
years ugo.
The deepest producing oil well
in the country is 13,530 feet; the
deepest well ever drilled which
turned out to be dry, was 20,521
feet. The Allen Paris well is al-
ready the fourth deepest hole ever
drilled und may become third or
second.
"We will go a little deeper,” u
Magnolia petroleum geologist said.
“We hope to get oil und gas, and
the formation should at least con-
tain water."
He did not think, however, that
tile well would break the record.
He said the bit is now bitihg into
“fairly hard" limestone. The heat,
he said, was what made it neces-
sary for the company’s laboratories
in Dallas to compound a special
mud.
Services Set For
Sunday Afternoon
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella
Spurgur, mother of Mrs. Samuel C.
Harris of Gladewatcr, will bo hold
Sunday afternoon at two o’clock
In the First Baptist church at Mar-
ietta. Burial will be in Floyd H1U
Cemetery In Cass county.
Mrs. Spurger died early Satur-
day morning in the Laird Mem-
orial Hospital In Kilgore. She was
a member of the First PreSbyteriun
church here.
To stimulate interest in mem- j Loving sat by his bed, holding the
bership was the purpose of the
meeting of the American Legion
Auxiliary Friday night at the Leg-
ion Hut, Dallas highway.
Willie Jarrell, dept, vice com-
mander and division commander
of the Legion, and L. E. Page, dis-
trict commander were the princi-
•pwt speakers. Both mm outlined
the Legion program for the year,
placing special emphasis on the
veteran's administration and fight
on communism, therefore noting
the importance of membership.
Rottcrt B. Keenan, dept, judge
advocate, acted as master of cere-
monies during the meeting and the
oyster supper.
The meeting drew the largest j The Communists Sunday plunged
number of Legionnaires to make „
it one of the most outstanding of ,hc Korcan armistice ™S°tiations
the year. The Legionnaires wore Into their most serious crisis since
very enthusiastic about reaching j last fall’s wave of “neutrality vio-
the quota of membership. Tommy latlons" when the Reds broke off
Allen is membership chairman and 1 the talks for two months,
has discussed ways and means of j The Communists served notice
getting old members back into the j at Panmunjom they would exploit
organization. , ' to the utmost Monday's bloody
Shreveport Jet Ace Saves
Life Of Fellow Pilot
Martha Raye's Big
Famous Mouth Got
Busted In Battle
MIAMI BEACH. Feb. 23 (U.R)—
Comedienne Martha Raye was
slugged in her big, famous mouth
George Washington's birthday sales were ogain the rule in Wash-
ington, D. C. as shops and stores featured “sensational” bargains
of all kinds. One shop offered five typewriters for sale at a price
of .99 centj each, and prospective buyers brought their bedding
and spent the night in the doorway of the shop.
every principal newspaper.
'Dalivar Crushing Blows'
They were coupled by charges,
from the same sources, that “Ang-
lo - American imperialists” are
planning to unleash a third world
war.
The occasion was the 34th anni-
! versary of the Soviet army.
| Marshal Leonid Govorov, writ-
|in* *" Izvestia, said “the Soviet i Safurday in a “messy” row with a
armed forces aie ready to deliver jjew York television salesman at
crushing and deadly blows against | her Fjve Q.clock club.
any aggressor daring to disturb i , , . . .. .
! the |>eaceful life of our people.” 1 The husky-voiced vocalist sign-
Similar articles appeared in j «*> an assault and battery warrant
other papers under the signatures i against Francis Serpico, 3-, or
'of Gen. Sergei Shtemenko and ; FJ u s h i n g, Long island, N.Y.,
Marshal Rodion Malinovsky. | charging that he “gave me a bust
I Maj. Gen. Peter Korkodinov, in the mouth when I slapped him
discussing the atom bomb in the i a^cr called me bad names.
; newspaper “Socialist Agriculture,” Serpico—b a 11 e d by bouncers
| said, "Aware of the jungle cus- j and Miss Raye's fourth/ and cur-
! toms of aggression, the Soviet gov-1 rent husband, dancer Nick Condos
j ernment saw to it that our state. —was released under a S200 bond
i wouldn't be caught unprepared under orders to appear in city
I and that aggression would be met i court Monday,
with all possible weapons. For clad in a nifty white swimsuit,
this purpose were developed and j Miss Raye showed United Press
Reds Plunge Armistice Into
Serious Crisis Over Riots
TOKYO, Sunday, Feb. 24 (U.R)—
TOKYO, Sunday. Feb. 24 (U.R>—
Maj. William J. "Whiz" WhLsner
of Shreveport, La., became his-
tory's seventh Jet ace Saturday
when he shot his fifth Communist
MIG-15 out of the sky to save the
life of a fellow pilot.
The blazing air battle over
northwest Korea, in which
o t he r Russian-inadc jets were
damaged, was the highlight of the
slow-moving Korean war. Heavy
Communist cannonading rocked
the eastern front, but there was
no immediate indication of a new
Red offensive. Much of the Com-
munist fire came from an enemy's
hornets nest known us "Luke the
Gook’s Castle."
The U.S. Navy reported belated-
ly that two American destroyers
and a New Zealand frigate raced
Wednesday to the island of Yang-
do off Korea’s eastern coast und
boat off a Communist Sampan in-
vasion fleet with heavy losses.
South Koreans under a U. S. Ma-
rine captain defeated those who
landed after a 34-hour battle.
Whistler's elevation tg status of
ace—a title reserved for pilots
who have shot down five enemy
planes—came as a compilation of
official figures showed that 1,153
two United Nations planes have been
lost since the Korean war beRiin.
All but 15 were American planes.
Definite Communist losses were
put at 360 planes destroyed.
Whisner, 28, of 139 Archer Avc.,
Slirevei>ort, knocked down ids
fifth victim in a fight between 36
American F-86 Sabrcjcts and 40
MIGs just south of the Yalu river
In northwestern Korea.
By doing so he almost certainly
saved the life of u fellow Slst
Wing pilot, Maj. Don E. Adams of
Mount Clemens, Mich., whose
plane had been hit and was un-
able to evade the fire from u
pursuing MIG interceptor.
rioting at Kojc in which 6,000 fan-
atic civilian internees howling
“Kill GIs" attacked American sol-
diers trying to find out whether
they were Communists.
The Communist campaign pro-
mised to be a long and dirty fight,
designed chiefly to kill the United
Nations proposal that war prison-
ers and civilian internees decide
for themselves whether they want
to be repatriated.
The Communist charges of “bar-
barism” and “massacring" in UN
camps started a Red propaganda
offensive which may seriously af-
fect the progress of the Korean
talks.
A series of enemy propaganda
broadcasts fanned the flames. Pei-
ping radio, after accusing Ameri-
can planes last week of bombing
Manchuria, said Sunday the Unit-
ed States had practiced “bacterio-
logical war” against North Korea.
The violently-worded broadcast
said the Communists had protest-
ed to the International Red Cross
—which they have not recognized
in the Korcan talks — against
“these inhuman crimes." It was
The negotiators are also dead-
locked over the problem of'Rus-
sian participation in armistice in-
specting teams and the Communist
demand to build air bases during
an armistice.
UN spokesman Brig. Gen. Wil-
liam P. Nuckols said Allied peace
negotiators would make no direct
response to the Koje protest be-
cause activities in prison camps
were beyond the authority of the
truce delegation. It was forwarded
to Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway.
tested atom bombs of various cali-
bers.”
iStcosd to Mona'
All newspapers stressed the So-
viet army* pe—swtoti o4 the most
modern w' * p o n s, “second to
none.”
Sh^rmenko and other military
leaders said Russia rejects all ad-
venturous theories of an atomic
blitzkrieg or quick destruction of
Soviet strength by air attacks.
The Soviet Union, the general
her battle wounds in an interv iew
at her cottage overlooking Sur-
prise lake here. Her left underlip
was cut and swollen, but her
tnu&pet-iitoe voice
much vigor 3* ever. y "
“It all started,” she skid, “when
this big guy comes in with a date
and starts fussing for a drink.
Well it’s three o’clock or so and
the bar s closed for the night. I tell
him this and he starts cussing.”
“When he called me low, real
said, “realistically takes into con- low names, I let him have it with
sideration and employs and co-
ordinates all factors insuring vic-
tory.”
The army newspaper “Moscow
Pravda” ridiculbd what it called
Anglo-American armchair and
paper generals who were accused
of having a traditional policy of
"fighting to their last Allied sold-
ier.”
Shtemenko's full page article in
Pravda said that the peoples of
Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines.
Malaya. Burma and Indonesia are
"waging a just war for their lib-
eration and the forces of resistance
to imperialism are growing in the
Middle East, Near East and in
North and South Africa."
a slap across the face," she said.
“So he comes right back with a
fist that bops me right here.” She
indicated the mouth that brought
her movie and night club fame.
“I don't know which hand it was.
it came so fast . . . and he's a
big guy, too.”
CONFERENCE TO OPEN
TOKYO, Feb. 23 (U.R)—Prelimi-
nary conferences will be opened
here Monday on a treaty of fried-
ship, commerce and navigation
which will regulate relations be-
tween the United States and Ja-
pan when the occupation ends, it
was announced Saturday.
Evans Claims That
Gov. Browning Will
NameKefauver I School Board Meetings
Should Be Made Public
LONGVIEW, Feb. 23 (U.R)—Pub-
lisher Silliman Evans of the Nash-
ville Tennessean said Saturday
that Gov. Gordon Browning of
Tennessee will nominate Sen. Es-
tes Kefauver for the presidency at
the Democratic national conven-
! tion.
full of such expressions as "des-
perate maniacs, utterly devoid of
human principles." *
The Communists yielded on the
He also told Carl Estes, publish-
er of the Longview News and
Journal, in an exclusive interview,
that Tennessee will send a dele-
. , , . . „ gation instruced for Kefauver to
subject of troop rotation Saturday, | thc convention
but they lodged a bitter protest to I Evans camc to Longview for the,
United Nutions stuff officers marriage of his son. Anion Carter! comments,
against the Kojc incident and said — ~ ‘ —
it proved “thc utter bankruptcy of
your third principle of so-called
voluntary repatriation.”
This is one of the three major
problems blocking an armistice.
the two can be obtained.
“The reporter's first responsi-
bility is to report the news whether
it is good or bad. “Since a school
system is made up of many human
beings, it is inevitable that there
will be undesirable news devel-
School Board meetings should be
publically held said the American
Association of School Administra-
tors in a 24 page report that was
made public Saturday.
"Personality clashes in a board
meeting make bigger news for the
local community newspaper than 1 opments as well as good news.”
a fight on the floor of thc United I "Although a superintendent can
States Senate,” the association! tell a reporter why he thinks a
story should not be published, he
Evans to Donnalyn Knight,1 The booklet, "The Supcrinten-1 gains nothing by attempting to
daughter of Mr. und' Mrs. Fred- j dent, thc Board and the Press," j suppress unfavorable news.”
crick A Knight. He was asked j summarizes conflicts between “In fact, secretive efforts can
what progress Kefauvcr's cam- newspapers and educators and sug- boomerang with devastating re-
paign against President Truman is gests ways co-operation between 1 suits,
making. , -------- - ------”'ri
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And Gum",
He Bought Me Books
Kidnapped Girl Stated
MONTREAL, Feb. 23 (U.R)—A
throe - year - old girl who was
snatched from her crib Friday
night wus found unharmed Sat-
urday, walking hand-in-hand
down u busy street with a 16-year-
old boy who confessed he kid-
nuped her.
The youth, identified as a dis-
gruntled employe of the baby's
father, admitted thc abduction to
police during a long session of
questioning. Detectives indicated
that Robert Patcnaudc told « hazy
confused story.
One of thc biggest man-hunts
in Canadian history was touched
off uftcr the youth, wearing a
mask, broke into the fashionable
second-floor apartment of wealthy
Morris Nemeroff, president of
Paramount Lcuthcr Goods, while
he und his wife were out.
The youth forced thc maid to
dress little Barbara, then fled with
the child in his arms. He left a
crudely-written ransom note, de-
manding payment ot $50,000. Po-
lice said the boy, who worked In
Nemcroff's factory, believed he
was not paid enough and "took it.
upon himself to get some more
money.”
Patcnaudc was charged with
kidnaping and will be tried in
juvenile court.
Police indicated that he planned
to hold the child in u hotel until
he could arrange u rendezvous
with the parents and collect the
money. Detective* were convinced
he had no confederates.
"You couldn't get another crack-
pot like this to try such a stunt,”
one officer said.
“Frankly, I never expected to
sec my little girl again. My wife
and I are very, very lucky. Thc
kidnaper was Just a boy, and one
of thc quietest on my payroll.”
The youth told police he took
the little girl to a department store
to get toys und drawing materials
to keep her amused while he ar-
ranged thc ransom meeting.
"I like him,” Barbara said. “He
bought me books and chewing
gum. He took me in a car and he
didn’t hurt mo.“
She said “thc man" bought her
“toast and two glasses of milk”
for breakfast.
• Police throughout Montreal and
all the wav to the U. S. border 35
miles away searched for Barbara
and her ubductor, but a woman
shopper gave tile tip that led to
their discovery. Mrs. Margaret
Henry said she saw the pair en-
tering a St. Cathcrin’s St. depart-
ment store.
A short time later, two detec-
tives found them strolling down
thc street.
Rotary Anns Are
Honored With
Annual Banquet
The Rotary Anns were guests at
the annual banquet given in their
honor by members of the Rotary
Club Friday night. The banquet
was held in the recreation hall of
the First Methodist church.
A very entertaining program
was presented. Miss Betty Dillard
They were taken to a police sta- j S{mR a number after Neil Burney
tion, where Barbara said she
‘The most sensible thing to do
about unfavorable news is to make
certain that the reporter or news-
paper office gets the facts fast and
gets them straight."
It was suggested that heads of
1 local schools boards and the school
superintendents always keep the
' local newspaper, the editors and
Barbara, apparently undisturb-
ed by her experience, was clutch-
ing iier abductor's hand. Tucked
under one arm were three picture
books and a doll thut he had
bought for her.
wanted to "talk to my mummy,
Police telephoned the parents to
toll them their 12 anxious hour*
of waiting had .ended.
“Mummy, I've got u stick of
gum." said Barbara, chewing hard
on the treat given her by a detec-
tive.
Barbara never bad seen her ab-
ductor before Friday night. When
police asked her if she liked him,
she said that she did.
“He took me in u ear," she told
police.
’Tm a big girl now and I’m go-
ing home soon," she declared.
“No, he didn’t hurt me.”
reporters, completely informed and
not withhold information that they
may personally feel would not be
good news to most of the public.
Educational trends, crowded
Conditions, salary*, and the like are
things the public should be con-
j stuntl.v informed about without re-
quiring the newspaper men and
public to request such informa-
tion from the officials of the
school.
gave the welcome address. Mrs.
Katherine Stone, speaking on be-
half of the Rotary Anns, res-
ponded
The Rev. and Mrs. L. G. Shep-
pard, new residents in Gladewatcr
having moved here from Houston,
sang a duet. Mrs. J. J. Truugliber
then gave un enjoyable talk on the
anniversary that she and her hus-
band. who is president of thc Ro-
tary Club, observed Friday. Jake ~ |m Texas
Crouch presented u novelty music Cloudy with occasional ram
number und Erwin Brown gave a Sunday and Monday, not much
novelty youth fund report. Special change In temperatures Moderate
music by the Rev. and Mr*. Len I northeast to east winds on tho
W. Orr concluded the program. coast.
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