The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 217, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 12, 1952 Page: 1 of 12
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Baytown. Texas
Tuaiday, Fabruaryl?, 1952
TODAY’S NEWS TODAY
TELEPHONE: 1302.1
»• tarvad by
OPTI.
PITOL
raeapfioniit
Optical
Houston
lies Drive
h Savage
Assault
r-»riH Valentine
KEKV TREATS
Ink swirls of ImMlai
rer layer* of m«M.
nr-levlurrd u hit,
ike. Topped tey »•
ilorful plastic ,npid:
rrsh-baked and In.
I — all srt to (0 ti
iur port). That* ...
|«tty Crocker's
, Fomous
B°: 29c
Deodorizer
MIST ]2Z 89c
IcHTH ARMY HEAD-
faflBRS (UP)- About
I communiat troops ssv-
ittacked United Na-
if lines in a snowstorm on
[fiatem front today and
I infantrymen killed or
half of them in re-
the attack. •
artillery and mortar
r»iifiit the Reds >n * devai-
il Mrroa* at bar bod wire en-e
Murats in from of Allied pool-
/«('prevented them from
jiaj the Allied-held hill , near
IlfWduns valley.
■ Mtimated 96 Communist*
jk.ll.il and 130 wounded in
f attack Another 20» were
turn bark from the
[HEART
MCE
J wire.
,iriinn the heaviest in a
Ip Communist probing attack*
' fiines al! along the 145-mile
i from for the first, time in
eighth Arm. communique
J?,rd probing units struck m
bother points along the eastern
jjketawn midnight'and dawn
i vtii'k) were thrown back
much, trouble
i Eightn Army announcement
|PS forces infitcted 227? Com
C* cajuaitirs during the first
of- February a ^slight in-
,over the previous wr.ek In-
Jin the February 1-7 figures
ip] Reds killed, 1260 wound-
111 isken prisoner
nging cloud* over N’orih
miteci 'Fifth Air Fori"
i to oca ??• sorties Tuesday
j tilled fighter-bombers w ere
JfTtditfd with ruling F.ed rail ^
bit M pi •
4000 OILWORKERS SI
STRIKE FOR MORE PAY
12557 MkH-
BOARD MAY CLOSE CARVER
HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA
' ^ • \ . •* y .»/■;/ S' ' ■' . ’" ' '• ''. * ' * *'
t al Klllgore supervise that cafeteria "I think Mrg. KlUgorc should itart '* ~
High as aha doe* other* in the district," an Immediate inventory and make BEAUMONT (UP) wdAlmoet
ty as Board Prealdent A. R. Stark aug- anothW report at the end of the 4000 oil workers in fhf* M-
month about condition* there.” t_____ »T»4n«--Ua
rtalnly ahow* The other trustee* agreed with ferS0Q ^ WlineneS
Pyle added. Pyle's suggestion. " have voted to strike if necee-
Walkout May
Shut Down
5 Refineries
nosing of the cafeteria
George Washington Carver
School whs a possibility today as Board President A. R. Stark sug-
Mr*. O. A. Killgorc, cafeteria grated,
supervisor, began an inve*tlgation “This report
of the cafeteria operation
Membe** of the School Board
found that the cafeteria went
$2537.21 into the loss column be-
tween September 7 and January 31
of laot year . ‘
"We can't continue to have a
$500 a month deficit from one
TO Gi ABD ItKItl.IN—First volunteer* for new police “alert unit” report for first d*y of dutv in
Heif Berlin. I nit wilt be tmineri to guard free half of Berlin from an) Invasion by Communists.
I Donate strength will he about 3*00.
»omcthing is wrong,” Pyle added. Pyle's suggestion.
Tsary to backs up their de- ■
Plea Of Ace's Widow SSSS. ;
Denied By Air.. Foote ■ -
« . at the Texas Company and Allan-
TOKYO — (U.E)— The Far East or what I want to do. You can tic refineries at Port Arthur and '
Forces brushed aside Tuesday a rest assured that 'if I ever get the another 500 employes of the Texas
Port Neches
making n profit and four are
.showing only a small loss.” Trustee
J. L. Hutson declared, •'if some-
thing can’t he done I think' it widow'* demand for an investl- opportunity the first thing I will Company'*
Should be closed ”
Stage Set For Possible Truce
But Communists Still Stalling,ilN Charges
P V.YMl'N.iOM il ili The United
Nations command said Tuesday
'hat the stage has been set for a
possible "tnirc 111 Korea, hut charg
eh tjis! the Communists nr,- still
Spots
|li Smoke
1 ran he quite a problem
■rs of the 'School
ka.e found it ran also
I to he expensive
ly're decided to ask for bid*
|tke building of incinerators
I sehoot* in thr district. An
i by Maintenance Super
t A H. H'illig placed the rn.l
■ than tvm.
The assertion »a.» contained In
a Voice of the I'N? Command'
hrendrast from Tokyo amid flies,
deietopmcnt* in the armistice ne-
gotiations at PHiiiniir.joni
1 The Communists promised at
brief meeting ^if the full truce
delegations to present, soon a new
compromise proposal dealing with
questions to be discussed at a Ko-
rean pence conference within 9ij
days qf an armistice
? staff nfftri
cafeterias making a profit were
Robert E Lee High School. *653 0^.
Horace Mann Junior High School.
*1095.64; Baytown Junior High,
$452.01: and Aahbel Smith Elemen
tary. *390.11.
• Cafeteria* showing a los*. bc-
The broadcast accused thr Reds Ba_ytown Elc-
of stalling in the talks on a '""Mary. HJ0.3J: San Jacinto Eie
Korean near., conference fifth mentarv, $1310, Highland*
Korea summing up the regulU of #n<J ^ op U)<, #rmj^ mentarv. *89.45
the past two weeks of truce U!k* agenda "with the obvious objer
a! f'amminjom as the prelude to five of trying to drag a variety of *'I» Principal Ifavia (W. Marion
The I N coitrniand issued * sum-
mary of its "Voice' broadcasts to
n actual armistice'' or the pro-
■ rhial calm before the storm."
problems
talks'
gation and said America’s leading do i* to come home," he wrote.
The cafeteria report ihowed that jet air ace, shot down and appar- Mrs. Davis said her husband
ently killed Sunday, had volunteer- (Bre Plea—I’age Two)
ed to remain in Korea.
Lieutenant General Otto
Weyland, commander of the
FEAF, said there was no cause for
any investigation as to why Ma
jor George A. Davt*' of Lubbock
had not been rotated home after
shooting down his first five planes.
Davis was downed in a dogfight
with Communist MIG-15s' on- his
59th mission. He was the world's
No. 1 air ace with 14 enemy planes
to his credit.
Weyland said Lieutenant Gen
refinery
Elc
and I^mar Eie
mentarv, *146 73.
"Is Principal Ifavia (W
£ Aviation Bigwigs
Meet Today For
Inquiry On Crash
Did Truman Send Out
Map Of Atom Plants?
into future Korean Dans, Carver principal), aware of
this deficit?" asked Trustee J. W.
Pyle.
"Yes," replied Superintendent
George Gentry. Gentry explained
NEW -YORK -CJ!)—Airlines of-
ficials and operators of Newark
Airport were called Into Conference
today to discuss three plant-
era! Frank Eyerset, commander of crashes within two months that
voted to strika last night
Another 900 workers at Pure Oil
refinery near here already hava
approved a walkout.
Worker* at the huga Gulf refin-
ery at Port Arthur ware voting on
the question today.
A strike would idle some 15.000
persons in Jefferson County, In-
cluding employes of a number of
industries dependent upon petrol-
eum by-products for their opera-
tion. These include Jeffereon
Chemical Company and Nechea
Butane Products Company of Port
Neches and Lakes Carbon Com-
pany of Port Arthur. . .
The oilworkers are represented
the Fifth Air Force, hod informed have . turned bustling Elizabeth,
him of Davis' desire to remain in
that management of the cafeteria Korea "some months hgo.'
had been under the direction of the
principal himself.
"I -think we should have Mrs
New Jersey, into a city of terror.
In jointly arranging the meeting,
Kill staff officers offered
Work
CREV.S today were com-
bi tile rebading and laying
ijravcl hsse on North Ashrnl sought In
i Defer and Wright tods-, sentstiws
new base . is expected to
1 the s’reet more stable and
I spjiing last longer
MINNEAPOLIS fl.P' President Alamos. New Mexlio. and Oak
Truman authorized publication of Ridge, Tennessee, and two otlirr
boost the proposed ntonthh' ceiling 12,000 colored ' maps pinpointing atomic areas, one at S.iltnn Sea
nr. rotation of troops during a vital I'S atomic installations, the California, and the other at Arco,
truce f-om 25.000 to .30000 ar.d the Minneapolis Morning Tribune said Idaho
number of poru through which the today. Th), ,rUcll> sald, the maps "in
troop* might pass from thrae to r- - ---------U‘-J --**-■-----*•*--
four hut !he UN rejected both as
insufficient executive
xss/jt.ss,»
pditor. the newspaper ides* for finding thosf extremely
Driver, 100,
Has Formula
For Safety
Wheels ;
Pilot Bounces
Them Down
3 Other Red staff officers said 12 000 composite maps located vital installations
fain to give their repre
Are Busy
4.NS POINT Kerries b#d
month in January, a rr-
i Isdai shows. The ferries,
[1146 hour*, carried a to-
ld *5.70*1 vehicles, including
IflMlim- truck* which have
|k transported separately,
i total is shout double the
' ferried in January ^last
proposed joint Red
Trass teams a built-in , veto on
behlnd-the-line services" to he
rendered war prisoners after an
armistice
No new date -was set for the
next full plenary session It was
agr*ed to await word front the
Communists a* to when their new
proposal was ready
exactly the ma,
at Hanford
jor atomic plants
Washington,
Plane Heads
For Pole
Late Bulletins
WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash d'.Pi
A ski-equipped Navy Ncptifne pa'-
trol plane was to take off from
here today on the first leg of an in-
The newspaper said the presi-
dent authorized publication of the
Maps May 22, 1950 with Executive
Order 10127 to ahow pilots the
areas where flying is banned.
The White House in Washington
denied that President Truman or-
dered publication of the maps
Steven rontrasted the .detailed
maps with a map published by
Fortune magazine in January,
1949. *
Prcaident Truman cited the map
in the magazine as the most nut-
NEWPORT,*fc. V-CP)—Robert
I* Bring, 100, the nation’s old-
est motorist, disclosed this sim-
ple formula today for safe driv-
ing:
1. Quit speeding.
2. Quit gawking.
By keeping his eyes on the
road nnd a light foot on the ac-
celerator, Bring has completed
36 years of motoring without a
serious accident, even though he
takes a dally spin In his 18-year-
old sedan without feeling the
need of wearing eyeglasses.
tended flight to land at the North standing cxanfple of the kind^ of
I Meeting
WSTRATIVE school Of-
i»nd members of the Board
itces of the school district
|**tat 7,80 p.m today
pill be the second in s hti",'
nfstma! meetings to discuss
liltrstive problem* which
’ the schools.
Truman's Willinq
WASHINGTON— Mb -Repre-
sentalive Adolph J. Sahath, l(,
Illinois,- -aid today after a While
House visit that President Tru-
man told him he is willing to
seek re-election. Jf it will help
- speed world pea<V.
Birds
Its of- the Carver High
t Rnmemuking Department
1Ja_ making appointments *
invited members of
! Mtofll.-Boqrd ■ to be their
•* s banquet Thursday.
Pirates Board Ship
TAIPEH. Formosa -r d.P’ - A
hand of 79 bare-'footed Chinese,
pirates fired on ami boarded a
British steamer near Formosa
last night and held the captain
and a I S State Department or. ,
Bcial captive iihtir*«on- r*n«"
was paid.-
Pole the first such flight in .his-
tory
The plane is one of two carrying
19 military and civilian "research
workers to Point Barrow. Alaska.
One of the principal objects of
the mission will .he to study the
feasibility of using Kuge “ice
islands'’ that float *n thr Arctic
Ocean
thing that led him to issue a ‘‘se-
curity order" which he has refus-
ed to rescind, despite attacks by
newspaper and radio editors. ■
The president said that if the
magazine publishers had the. wel-
fare of the US at heart they, would
not have used the map, which was
a common map of the US with
sites of afomir projects located by
Bogart Is
Oscar Derby
'Dark Horse
Weyland'* statement contradict- Governors Thomas E. Dewey of
ed Mrs. Dorris Davis' assertion in New York and Alfred E Driscoll
her Texas home that her husband of New Jersey urged visiting con-
not only had wanted to come home, gressmen and air authorities to at-
but never had volunteered for Ko- tend.
reari duty in th<piirst place. Civil Aeronautics Board authori-
> "He expected to be home for ties already had begun an on-the-
Christmas,” she said. "I would spot Investigation of El/ibeth's
like to ask for a full-scale investi- crash No. 3 which took 31 lives
gation of why he was left in Ko- yesterday and brought the-death DALLAS —(UP)— A C-46 pilot
rea.” * toll since December 16 to 117. as ftymi Illinois bounced his plane
Mrs. Davis said dispatches from The Port of New York Authority *w'
the Far East were aimed at “g!or- shut down its busy *32 million
ifytng" the Air Force in Quoting, Newark Installation indefinitely
Majhr Davis a* requesting-to stay shortly after a‘ four-engined Na-
in Korea. tional Airlines DC-6 struck an
The pretty brunette said her apartment house and crashed in
husband "absolutely did not voiun- flames on an Elizabeth playground,
teer for Korean duty and did not Twenty-seven persons aboard the
want to stay." flaming plane and four apartment
“That's a lie,” she charged when house tenants were killed. Twelve
told of a dispatch from Filth Air persons .were injured critically.
Fonfe headquarters quoting Gen- The 31st fatality was Harold De-
eral Weyland as saying Davis had Fiore of Lyubrook, New York, who
volunteered to remain in Ko- died in a hospital last night,
roa- Elizabeth's 110,000 outraged citi-
Mrs. Davis quoted another of zens refused to be mollified by the
"six or seven letters” which she port authority's order and demand-
said contained evidence that Da- ed that Newark airport become a
vis had not wanted to stay iq Kb- phantom field forever. Unlels the
rea: airport is abandoned permanently,
"Nobody has ever asked me any- they said, Elizabeth will become a
thing about whether I want to stay ghost city.
the runway tq free a,
jammed landing gear and then set
the big cargo carrier down safely
at Love Field here Wst night.
Captain Cfcoper B. Btubbs, La
Grange, Illinois, piloting the C-4E
for Slick Airways, said the plane's
hydraulic system failed and ef-
forts to crank the gear down by
hand were only partly succesaful.
Stubbs and the other crew mem-
ber, First Officer W. R. Fields of
Algonquin, Illinois, found a cable
broken and decided then to try
forcing the gear all the way, down
from its forward-folidng position.
Stubbs bounced the plane one*
and the right, gear came down'.
He circled the field, made another
brush on the runway and freed tho
left wheel. The normal landing fol-
lowed.
Commander V J Coley, officer stars
in charge of the group, said a land-
ing will be made on one of the
ice islands, which were discov-
ered by the Air Force four years
ago.
He said they are believed to be
'4ftfter a product of the ice-age-or
he remnants of a glacier.
•In contrast to the Fortune map
tlie-newspaper said, the maps or
dered by the president were “pub-
lished In full colors and complete
with topographic details, exact lat1
■tude and longitude of the atomic
.L'osc-rvatlons. and government ra-
dio beams for gtiilding alrcraf; "
HOOLYWOOD -<UJ?)- Humph-
rey Bogart, who once denounced
academy awards, found himself a
Rev. Milton Jordan Heads Chest Council
Members Elect Officers, Hear Reports On Agencies 4
Rev. Milton Jordan, pastor of
"dark horse" today among 20 film Grace Methodist Church, today had
trustee* are just a*
• They’ve accepted tile in.
Ws Holiday
•NAWNE TTLlW.
Taft Backer Claim Oklahoma Victory
Convention Vote Gives Senator Edge Over Eisenhowe.
Mmits patient* at San
J»o Memorial Hospital, hrr-
I * b'Pn admitted to the hos-
WASHINGTON -r'LJb- Support
•whb' « awiniw itohwt a. Taft
patient. Mrs. Pillow has
fage Iho)
found Town*
Rushing dream* about
BSTUPttToSS
awaiting the return of
Dick from New York,
airliner crash
Beard has g new silver
t *ald she spent the
looking at the one;
back from a
I- ftcw. York, most ol which
:.. W*®d'
delegate/ to the nation Kepub-
f*___licas presidential: naminatiug.cQn.-
todav claimed a significant vie- vention. Four othe. delegates are
tory in Oklahoma and predicted uncommitted and one favor* Gon-
thc.v will do even better In pivotal < ral Douglas MacAtrbUri^
Pennsylvania. - Eisenhowerworkesa here pro-
But the rival forces of General (cased to be undismayed. They
Dvdght- D. Eisenhower pooh-pooh- ,ai(j their Oklahoma force* ,’had
ed the Taft claim*, j>* '“ #ne ve/y well considering thgt
Results of Oktiboma's state the state once had bpen called
GOP convention yesterday, the na' T*ft territory. They also emphaiiz-
edge Over Eisenhower.
vention when' the chips are all
dOTh.., . --------------------
The other 10 of Pennsylvania's
,70 delegates already have been
. hosen, and Taft forces claim at
starariNtominated for the coveted
Oscar" awards of the Academy
of Motion Pictures Arts and Scie-
nces. _ •,
The movieland touglf 'guy, famed
for shrugging he didn't care if he
never won an Oscar, was nominat-
ed by 11,739 members of the movie
industry for his portrayal of a
drunken riverboat captain in “The
African Queen." »
Bogart will compete with Marlon
Brando, leading man of "A Street-
car Named .Desire,” Montgomery
been named chairman of the Coun
cil of Members of the Baytown and
East Harris County Community
Chest. -
Mrs. H. M. Johnson was elected
secretary of the group to replace
Mrs. Joe Huggins. George Bowers,
Mrs. W. K. Puderbaugh, Al Mel-
inger, W. J. Strickler and Robert
Strickland were named to replace
Jack Jacobs, Lloyd T. Jones, Rev.
Jordan, Paul H. Mcars and Abe
Rosenzweig on the Chedt Bosfil of
Directors.1
teqd a meeting of the Council of
Members.
"I would like to point out," Har-
rop said, "that every time a group
of citizens likeourselves gather, as
we arc doing here tonight, and un-
dertake to solve a problem without
running to the state or federal gov-
ernment for money, it means that
on the march toward high realiza-
tion of the democratic principles
t from too
which "set America apart!
many other nations of the world."
After an invocation by
%
thur Kennedy of "Bright Victory,” Knox T. Beavers, W. D. Hinson and"
least four of them, with the others
split.
‘ The Oklahoma convention scrap-
.ping held the spotlight as Senator
Estes Kefauvcr moved into poli-
tically-disturbed Chicago with his
and Frederic March of “Death of
a Salesman" for the “best actor”
award in the 24th annual derby.
The movie queens who wiltcom-
(Sae Bogart—Page Two)
' * L dation, said. "The corrupt politf-
Johnson, Taft S u s»ntI-DemorrAtip. Hp thront-
..zr.ti-.,:
iTv‘uttinf «nf‘here is
_£*■!**. there .was much
PraawS'
, 22, Mn'u,lon MUied
'word "wry/THB
*Grant
Victor A. jonnson, • «>■» cian is anti-Dcmoeratic. He threat-
director of organization, eng oar economic system on one
that at least « of th'’ front juat aa the Communist
^■■ states 16^ delegates will thmt#v iUn mother fronf^
1 Kefauvcr .did not refer to his*
■iftapd the result was a “Vie- own candidacy or call any names,
W fltf ML *ndJlh*F«d that thq the former chairman of the Sen-
enhower boom" quickly faded ate Crime committee dwelt at
' length on the men* of crime. It
&t> «me when Chicago
..... .
bovernor in
jf. i«pn on mp men ore oi crime, it
■ came at a time when Chicago waa
outraged over the slaying of a
■ ■ weat.sid* Republic political legd-'
■
VVaiter Rundeil were named to the
Welfare League Board of Directors
to replace VJctor tolas, Thad S.
Fennema, Jack R. Henderson, H.
,M. Johnson and Ben 3. Love.
, Dr. 4|Yilliain_Hv Bridges was re-
elected to the-Health League Board
of Directors.
The Communty Chest has come a
long way since its beginning in 1887
in Denver, Jamea Harrop told one
of the biggeat crowds ever to •*-
HOLTON
BrScker and Harrop’s
mark*, agency reports were made.
J. L. HArt reported on, Girl Scout
and W. J. Strickler on Boy Scout
activities, B, P. Hi
on work done by '
change and Grover Edge repoi
Veterans’Service Center, "a-
A. N. Johnson made thi "
,Baytown Society for Crippled
Children report and Mrs.' John 'T. 3.
•Porter reported for. the Health '
Leagje.^Bcn S.JLove reported_on
Elms on the Recreat
W. W. Woods, j
munitv Chest.
m
*
t\
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to&kcts Pay Last Tribute To G
106,000 Mourners Of All Races File Past. Ro:
' v "
M
M:,
Pk:f
p Imfii 1
■ . •ub*
jects of many races filed past the P1®*
coffin of king George ,Vl at tl»
rate of 6000 an hour today in a the i
tribute all the more moving for Ha as 7
silence and lack of tears. ■
aw «
xsntisn Jimpire were
walk slowly past the bier
torlc We,minster Hail before
swings i
i. CST).
>robably will
of the two
All Races File Past. Re,
aa a ruler had won the m-
i '.' 1
i of Pkrtiament, as I |
■■■ 13 houta l»
In black
llll GEORGE *V
TO RUSSIA—President Tru-
man has nominated Keenan,
career diplomat and Russian
expert, as United States am-
bassador to Soviet Russia.
V1HQ1JL
OFFERED
Chief counsel for Newbold Mor-
jtC
In
»)
I to his Rio Grande ris in investigation of corrup-
Missiort where he tlon in federal government Is
ivers wou
ursday.
tomorrow. A spokes-
governor’s office said
id return to Austin
being considered by Pi P
Chicago Crime
former FBI
director of
Commission add
man.
was marked by
same simplicity and sincerity that
keynoted his 15-ycar reign.
The sadness of the white, brown
or yellow faces which pansed for
a moment to take in the unforget-
table scene showed how well
George VI’* example as a
So Far
m
! of'
including the town
of Walsetal. including tl
Melkoede, was isolated
At.least
were dead and scores injured from
avalanches and i
The
storm raged in its ninth day.
The worst disaster of i
a* area were ii
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