The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 278, Ed. 1 Monday, May 5, 1947 Page: 1 of 6
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WEATHER
TBI-fTTIES— Partly cloudy thin afternoon,
tonight anil TllMf! » few mattered
1 ghowera. IJtlte ehsiirr III temperature.
Moderate to occasionally fresh southerly
Wind*.
m ^9ai| pm
VOL 2? NO. 278
GOOSE CREEK, TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1947
Investigators Air Abuses
In State's Pardon System
Phone Strikers' Ranks Waver Chairman Is
Four New York UnionsGo Back To Work Called Upon
To Resign
"Washington, pv «. —«£f»—
Member* of four Independent un-
ion* crossed picket lines and re-
turned to work today in New York,
the first major break In the M-
day-old nationwide telephone
pany reported lor d manual tele-
phone service returned to normal.
Hie 37,000 members of. the four
1
JET PILOT WINS DERRY IN PHOTO FINISH, In the flfhtlnif-
ent finish of a Kentucky derhy in years, Mr* Elisabeth Arden Ora-
hant's Jet Idiot eked out a photo-finish win over the favored Phal-
anx and an equally determined Faultless to .bring his owner *92.168
at Churchill downs. Running almost neck-and-neck. the horses are
shown mining under the
right Is the offlaM -photo;
Phdlauv, No, 8 by a bead,
win bunched at the left. In the upper
,** taowlng Jet Pilot, No. II, out ahead of
and fault
unions settled with the company
yesterday for a $4 weekly increase.
Long distance service still was
curtailed, however, as long lines
The New York Telephone com- operators .continued their strike.
Approximately 13,000 workers In al
continued the strike in New York.
The four New York independent
unions, which settled, are not af-
filiated with the National Federa-
tion of .Telephone workers (Ind.t.
However, they struck on the same
date as the NFTW, the key or-
ganization in the walkout.
A $4 weekly Increase also was
the basis for a settlement at Chi-
cago reached between two unions ...
and . the Illlnob Bell Telephone'll Q Qf $pVen Boxes
But the two unions which set- Favor IncitOse Plan
tied the Federation of Telephone
union and management.
Tiic government's latest compro-
mise proposal, providing a boost of
*5.14 a week, was accepted by the
long-lines union but rejected by , _ .
the American Telephone and Tele- Stevenson t Office I*
a°a nrA’"-
LA Police Hunt
Clue In Fourth
'Dahlia' Murder
Nude, Mutilated Body
Found In Vacant Lot
LOS ANGELES, May 8. (DPI— workers and the Commercial Tele- The
School Tax Hike
Proposal Loses
769 To 595 \
AUSTIN, May 5.
Gross abuses in issuance
state pardons and
are charged in a report sub- I
milted to the Texas senate j
today by its investigating j
committee.
The committee said pres-
ent pardon board Chairman Ab-
ner I,ewls should immediately ten-
der his resignation, that there had
FPC Sees Natural Search On For Kidna
GdS Shortage Man.ln Black Sedan 'Snatches' Girl
More Severe Than Last
Winter, Agency Say*
By HELENE MONHERD
WASHINGTON, May 5 (l?.H>
FORT ATKINSON, Wis. May 5. kidnaper and fi
(UP)- District Attorney Francis t»m* »i.z0b,
Garity said today the disappear- Mrs. Weekler
ante of 8-year-old Georgia Jean .dling hope tha
Weekler was definitely a kidnap- he returned
ing and *3,700 reward was offered with no-ransom
natural gas shortage next winter fo.r l*'e.m*n in 8 bl8<* scd,,n wh" d «hild
whisked her away
w io_v ^ Although no. ransom demand
c^es^dic^^me'chM^
Will be as prolonged and severe
«s it waS last year, the Federal
kidnaped by
Qarity'suid th
to believe that "
on the basis of a nationwide sur- r a 1 T Y"* *?! I
v»v - taken four days «go with erim- "hirst" hi
The Commission said a shortage intent. Her distraught father, out of the car
SEsfea^rS
deluged with applications from for '"rormatjpn lending to the
natural gas pipeline companies for
ipermlssinn-fo .expand existbif fa.
cillUes; ; -
But the lack of steel for pipe-
lines wiU continue to hold up con-
struction’ for many months, the
commission said.
The coming shortage of natural
gw will extend from the Rocky Union Claims Lockout;
Mountain states to New York r; pi ■ r. .
state, the survey indicated. But ',rms blame Mrtke
^'sltuaGon801"' br*ht ***:, *" dtiCAGCJ, May 8. (UP. - Itefiv
A new pipeline may be buUt by J^were hilte^rariv tod{°v wh'n iV'Tii...
next fall frtan*. Hugoton field in L SilS MUk D^lew dc "K^m that
Chicago Dairies.
Cease Operation
die of the afte|
took the mail
mail box and ■
"Second, a J
dan whs seen
Weekler lane, 8.
vihan truck drt
Coy saw the
at the same
Floerke’s car
the lull.
Third, the state
Ideas, No. 5, in third pohilion.
(International Soundphoto)
British Troops
Hunt Escapees
206 Arabs, Jews Flee
Ancient Acre Prison
phone Workert union agreed to Comas
respect picket lines of the union district
continuing the strike the Illinois day with
■In North ClroUna, the strike losing eh
ended in at leaat five towns. Mem- Voters
bers of the Sfuthern Federation °g 7*9 to
of Telephone workers returned to the tax
pending further a move
Gregg Cherry the
telephone company cent additii
icnts if the levy to fftu
ended today. The for teachers
eir decision had ed a min
trustees
Police checked church aequain
tan res of Mrs. Dorothy Montgom-
ery today In their, search- for the
sadistic slayqr of the fourth vici Telephone Tragic union,
tim of the ‘Black,Dahlia" cycle. »- «--*•- *'
*r Learning that Mrs. Montgom-
ery, 36-year-old mother of three,
led an apparently blameless life,
LA. Pete Sutton of the sheriffs work at 8 a.
homoeide detail, said 'tha‘.’| why negotiations,
our search for her killer has nar- had. asked
rowed down to those who might to employ
come ih contact with her in strike was
church work, which was her prin- strikers said
cl pal interest" ——
Her nude, mutilated body was
JERUSALF.M, May 5. (FI!) Crack found under a pepper tree in a
British airborne troops swarmed vacant Ipt, two miles from her
through the hills and villages of Firestone Park home, early Sat-
North Palestine today In a great 'irda* morning. All autopsy dis-
manhunt for 206 Arab and Jewish (dosed she was strangled to death
prisoners who escaped from an- but hot raped.
cicnt Acre prison when the Jewish The case closely resembled the . _
underground blew a hole in its brutal murder of Elizabeth Short, the money dift re nee between
wall. 22-year-old party girl known as
An official British announce- the “Black Dahlia." -A _a-%:.«a . _
ment said 10 Jews and one Arab James Kennedy, who saw a tall, OlD DUmaJ Cam
the prison break bald-headed man park Mrs. Mont- Uvl DIOlllCU I Ul
of the
School
at 7:30 p.m. to-
unpleasant assign-
returns of a
on the agenda,
urday by a count...
against raising
from *1 to *1.50, -7-
have allowed been
to have levied a 20- Gov.
to the present *1 and
salary increase
,t would have plac- should
of *2400 annual sal
AUSTIN. - (U R) -White
the. stole
L. Lewis,
chairman of l
board. Abner i
,«r,y
committee.
* senate
that- 1
■wMMwfpHUKr -
investigating
to |M>sitively
union uj
icr«“thatHN
limnih of |
ais>* *“ “'6: m UX to.
The gover ment, meanwhile, crease took an early Itad, and at board
stepped up lb cfforU for a gen-.one time It was trailing by nearly "
era! settlemen of the strike. ? ,L
Government conciliators in the As the day wore on, proponents
long-lines dii »ute sbFeduled an- »l the plan cut into the lead, but _ .
otter round -f talks late today they were 178 short of winning office
after narrow!: % to *1,14 per week when the last ballot had been pia
' the eed ip the bo*.
Two of the seven boxes
|the; plan a majority. They were
precinct 93 in West Goose Creek
and precinct 166 at Burnet school
in Wooster.
Highlands' preoinct 96 turned
(See School Tax, Page 2)
laxity” in former
Stevenson's office,
divided responsibility
and the governor
10 “findings"—
“close relations exist-
A. L. Lewis, pardon
and •profession-
seekers." *
of Lewis former
■ Elster Haile, em-
the secretary of state’s
clemeacy docu-
former Gov. Coke
And, Page *)
•time
#>3PI
peering . oVbr
sedan was
Blahed
Price Increases
Former ©F A Chief Leads /"/oiica
Attack On Republicans ** Oil#© S&lOUp |n Noi
Reveals
Interview
I^^HbJpwia^qndcrgrmin^wcre at 11 p.m. without her mother, her WASHINGTON, May 8. —fly!)— W/ /a I r no/Vl/l/
buried^ftej^heirh^gin^two^WheisThemas^^ontgomw, 54, High priceX—and whb’s responsible ’ ~ ‘ vl UJ I fCUVJr
r Taka* Naw Slant
minatfon Driva
Lt Sutton theorized
killer lorccd her
(See LA Police, Page 2)
™Jswj"t*-r*’^rmS/ss&y&tss;-** - «. **-4
S-3
es a aursfe “«txrvisrst x jfm
continue durte? thf next winter and ‘b(»t the dosing of the 73 ,l1" Cwte. no. kijtator would ti* to bear on strategic points In the
the FPT said * - ether plant*, was a lorkout. ‘Irmptihg a ccOta-t.
The company -hopes' to increase _
Its gas deliveries ly about 65,ooa- to. 40 hours ln !hl' |-uArln IW'iautne'
ooo cubic feet a day, Rcstrict.gns ^’rk W ZVCSlfl LmSDUiPS
for the company will be drawn up "f U"' « wr‘ k' ' “ ^
lit Chicago next week • ly .pay different
The Natural Gas Piphline com- T’ Sl'T* "T*"
pany of America plans to increase dJ h"n’
were killed in
and the flashes of violence it gomery's car Friday night, viewed
touched off at and near the his- Several potential suspects hut was
toric fortress. Ten Jews and two unable to .identify them.
Arabs were wounded. Mrs. Montgomery left home in
Many of the fugitives were he- the family car to pick up her 15-
lieved to have fled into the hills year-old daughter, Maycille, at a
near Safad. it was there that the playground.
bodies of four executed Irgunists When Maycille relumed home -
«. tomM
E. Stasseb's interview with
T'-‘-e Minister Josef V.
regarded here today
effective change of pac<f in
mpfdgn for the 1948 Repub-
lican presidential nomination.
Stalin told Stassen in. their
KremJin interview that the alter*
native to cooperation among
the Republicans in- going into bankruptcy," today world powers would be war.,
. _____ ___________ by leading the as- slashed fiscal 1948 budget request* said the, Soviet Union was
rized that the, sa„it on price controls in the last of the state, commerce and justice to cooperate with .the
o drive to the tongress. GOP "irresponsibility," departments and the federal judlci- States and he predicted ag
“ he said, has cost the American ary by *162,893,515, or 23.3 per cent, on international control and -ih-
housewife and businessman *8,000,- It voted to givft these govern- spection of atomic energy opera-
(8)0,000 in the last 10 months and ment groups only $535,728,007 of tiohs. SP-tlin beheves^ use of
iiw, -hi .....' -----*--» * .... ..
., ....... weeks ago touched off a hew wave refrigerator repairman, telephoned for themT-Ioiked more and more
sect) backing «m*^f the lane just 0f violence in.Palestine. JV the sheriffs office to report his today-Kite "
a moment or twq^tto. by.|lon% . British autiwrities, .reconstruct- wife missing. ‘ s sue in the
Thom, a hired hand at a Belgiibor- u,e attack on the prison and Jme body was. found by G. W. The Democratic National co»-
S: Economy Axe
the liberation of nearly half of its Thomas, 54-ycar-old
°» wo J®*1*. immIm— iweiiidinf «tifto.pri«^ro..nMcbaiBc,,ri>iIto iw>M'
automobile mittee
Ito waa -at* mer H
re issued a
OPA Chief
ffort to pin
statement by for- WASHINGTON. May 8. -fliti-
CStester Bowles in The house appropriations commit-
thc blame on the tee, saying the nation faces a _
choice of cutting expenditures “or native
today world
B-Natural Gas Pipeline com- MdrSHdll RCDOTt
mm >! America plans to Increaao " | 8 .d*W (1" Sun * J,w,w 1
[U capacity about 3D per cent next dM^h m li8te of w*ht
%
to bear bn strategic points-
prison defenses. •
The official announcement said
*85, Arab and 45 Jewish convicts
escaped from Acre in the confu-
sion that followed tho explosions.
City Court Fines Total
Mercury Nits
106 Degrees
At Snyder
Bv IINlTEn (Mnrm* To similar charges in the past,
^TwTk TeXM ,n the Sr^Saww SmocraUc-con-
thc “bill is
"Unless
the' Intel]
Bowles
will pay k3a‘-----------
[48 for their reckless disregard for tions
for war will be forbidden,
are* leading up to
the young man from
made the transcript of
interview public over
the welfare of Mr. and Mrs. John seven kills to go. week end. He will follow-up with
Q. Citizen*. The Mate and commerce depart- a »rie* of three articles for the
To similar charges In the past, meats guffpred the Mggekt cuts in. Ladies Home Journal
the newest bill, with the state de- supplement those with
first week of May.
And, there were very few of
trolled.
. .. ... . court during April; .IH: . , . „ _ _
wivre scurrying to neighbor-' "K » evideaf ^1>t ' About M per cent of this amount out of winter storage and pressed ‘rols. He tow mmot men ^ 'unress'funds'are' by the top figures with whom
delicatessens, which usually ment, was plannedI to evoke In came on fines for drunkenness ahd into service throughout the state and now fere taking their leads _ th h floor or in wanted to talk.
e small supplies on Sunday, wide circles of the American disordcriy conduct. The remainder yesterday as the mercury, aidpdtty Jrora the National Association of . ,___
stores expected a heavy - I - ■ " *u |m " " ......MM
canned, condensed miik.
......... * w (UWIII » Hull
Radio reports of lie dispute sent conference.
TRUMAN BLAMED housewives scurrying to neighbor- "It is e
FOR HIGH rucks hoo<i deiScatessens, which usually ment was
_____- receive small supplies on Sunday, wide cirelcs of the American disorderly conduct. The remainder
i^y s; M<*L* '' h ......... ..... i m
-- Robert R: Wason, chairman of on
the board of the National Apso-
cUtion of Manufacturer* today the radlp jeporta of. the . Strike- it said Marshall "contradicted m6nth, over *600 i
charged President Truman with lockout came early enough to pro- the facts" ih reporting that It was collected, he'said.
hOlding nn OASteA (SvInAu" nrLIln ‘VAIlF faMSSOSa fiMiM* mlL — _ 1L..G DtiCnia UllllaK Q H AU-’oW willitHf. V
corpratton Court Judge R E. Texas* nearly 7,000,000 raddentM -£*&*•* 88 GcornrC.^Marshall’s ptea Uwt^ttoy^^hwd expert
Hunter announced today that *1078 that wouldn’t back uji that flat, 8tabi,Iizff summer after lmdng arc >‘eg»ential.”, JhisP means'that lairs: His European jourm
in fines had^been collected in statement today ft18 /W^j“L?SSEPj£ ihe ^vS^cJ A^rtea " broadcasts him into the major capitals,
court during April. - Dusty, oll-thiraty fans were dug he termed effective price (t, . »-*•*’ and an otter foreign ever he went Stassen was r
About 80 per cent of this amount out of winter storage and pressed trols. He laid GOP leaders then .S8 0„„ •,* i.- n,,, with wi
and will
a renewal
partment’s foreign broadcast and ?{ his country-wide speaking cam)
information programs eliminated-iiaigh. But this time Stassen 1
completely despite Secretary appear before the public as a f
George C. Marshall’s plea that they hand expert on international
' ”,jhis means that fairs. His European journey to
Sglgg4 SI" jHiSa.1,S^r=’ ESidSlSS 0thCf “*PCCtal thAfSS lcMtofa«llntheeco„. thf^d^^nlTJjS^
Farm and morket expert* said )d, the Marshall report, \ jror. u,e first five days this 100-degrec mark in many spots He said RepubHcan charges that omy drive was the justice depart- he evidently intends to
“ "contradicted month, over *600 already has bep« and into, the 90s generally. labor i* to blame for high prices rtent which got all but *3,073,500 his p<wiUon. There «M
“ ........ «f Htotomi47oqo
.. up some price*” while vpnt farmers from shipping their Russia which showed^no willing-
attempting to “continue the OPA supplies to the ,*M|k ^ iini* Bit fmir
R1 rough exhortation and propagan- -
Baytown Firemen
MOUND TOWN
To Meet Tonight
In the Tri.Citte#; Garrett Her." G • ■
ring neatly dodges a proposition Baytown’s Volunteer Fire, dc-
that would show no profit.W. ( *|HM
Busch has his quota of boat
trouble when "
toes haywire
obliges
(nation
ness to cooperate at the Big Four I l-mft Ctfu'e AMprf
meeting, . * nlWIv VelJ.
Resklent Dies Al 105
rnm not bT^ne- SAN ANTONIO, May 8, -|
sided and that the other
and a guest at the dinner
The mostly cloudy skies which wouldn’t hold water because "wage of the fill,
prevailed over much of the state rates have risen only 9.5 per cent
at daybreak today were expected in the last 10 months while whole-
to givC only temporary relief from sale prices have risen more than
the summeriike temperatures. The 30 per cent.” He said consumer
U. S. weather bureau forecast "lit- prices were up 20 per cent in this
Re change in temperature'-Tor to- same period, ’
day, tonight and* tomorrow. Meanwhile he asserted, corpora-
0,000 requested.
(Sec Stassen,
mixed re-
Stocks Close Today
.
Elizabeth Eagar, first W, tonlgh a^ tomoreow Meanwhile, he asserted, corpor..
bom in San Antoni* .A *^te” tion profits after taxes are run- Alhed Chcm
at the dinner in 1881 fcl‘ in North Te*as thl? ^ ni".g ping twice the wartime rate of a Alleghany
not try to impose their ■■■■■■■■■■^^■^■■1 iMI
the Soviet. Union under cover of madehls fam- and more were forecast < tor this Sjooo 000,000 annually. &U«*sr Lud Steel
................. compromise, --- - mbmSSm^l^Oy afternoon and early evening for lit0e over W*W’WW,W .....’
Allis Chaimera, .
Amer Roll Mitts
AT and SF
»'• » » • • * » « f » M . 1445 71
..8%
■m......
33
............ 30%
79%
Courtesy Citizen* National Bank j
jij®
32 ts
stable pleace
German aggression,
Wiliams ; brtogs _ his Gooto Creek and^jpetty departments ^ WCSf TCX9S *
frilow workers all up in th* air The road to the consolidation of
today with a phoney spider.. JV . the Baytown department with the :
youngsters to church . .Mrs, was opened Thursday when the
Lynn Shires makes a lot of new city commission took over Bay-
uns carried from the city as a fnyder yesterday. Sweetwater had
refugee during the 1842 Mexican m
invasion.
Inti Nlcklc
Interlake Iron .............. 11%
Jones and L Steel ........... 32%
Kirby Pet . —.............
Kingston Prod ..............
Kenn Copper ................
i=2St
Celaneae ...........' . 19% Hal Fuel and Gas ..........
Three soots-Lubbock Wink and ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 5. (UP) Cessna ..... ........3% Nat Dairy Prod .............
I* Spring-reported 'maximum! --Repoblican Rep. Charles L. Ger- Cities Service 29% Nat Bellas Hess
tesy make heavy inroads'em their ment District No. 7,” ...... Work on the West Texas avenue San Antonio’“and file Mtoit’mem- a hoart attack. Crown Drug .....
arrives fete*but wastes*no tbns^n If ^ consolidation is approved p8Ving project got underway this her of St. Mark’s Episcopal churCh. anRd°g59ftt Wi¥hita’Falls and Aus- Gerlach, who had represented Callahan Z-Uad .
---- Mte but waste# no ttae in tonight, the enlarged city wil) haw morn*ag when .the Van Construe- ——-------—--- tim Galveston's 83 degrees was Pennsvlvanfa’s eighth congression- Calumet and Hec
Picking up the offieial reins
Mrs,
a**ln' and feeling & bit better but
still pretty ill , . . Mrs. Rosalie TWO
Perry Wanzer is back home
. and feeling a bit batter but
fire station in each city.
* 13
tion company of
preparing 8'etoiirs.
Houston began
off Texas aVe-
HINABOR
The block, just east of Hemphill
building WttfSm
- r-v.j . .u.„. INJinaEI) IN
lliill SSl ii|li
the envelope and coins will be George Lauraine and George of the project for the Van; Coh-
torned back to the owner . . . * Mon roe, occupants of the car, were struction company, said workers
There Is no name on the enyelope. taken to the Lillie-Duke hospital probably will be removing the sur-
by a Paul U. Lee ambulance where face oh the west end of West
,A~"' ' --——-—£* *b*y received treatment. Texas:avenue hy tomorrow, ^
the coolest spot in the state.
^ CUm .irs
EL PASO, May 8. —(UR)—Officials ruary 7 when he suffered an at-
. of the Mountain States Telephone tack of coronary thrombosis in
11 and Telegraph Co., reported today Washington. After spending sev-
. that a long distance cable from eral weeks at the Rethesda, Md.,
El Paso to Denver was damaged naval hospital, he returned home
home early today j (mowing copper Range
2%
al district since 1938, was stricken Curtiss Wright 5
last night following a day speht Davison Chem ..........21
■I .bout th<
Republic Steel ......
Radio Corp ..........
Rio Grande Val Gas
Sou Pacific ____
Stan Oil’Indiana ....
Stan Oil N J .........
St Regis Paper
Sunray Oil
rA luxury
somethinq «
loti of foHw
manages to
pay cash for
by buying
necessities on
f. a credit.
early yesterday when a nail was for what his doctor said wquld be Greyhound
driven through the cable. ’ a “long period of convalescence.” Gillette ««
Supervisory officials doing main- A native Of Bethlehem, Pa„ Ger-
tenancework.di»Rovercd the dam- laeh was qlected tadhe^ppuse in
aged cable on a telephone pole lo- 1988 after suffering three defeats
cated about 100 yards from U. S. in elections for Lehigh county of-
,highway 80 north of El Paso. fices.
Duval Tex Sul .............. 14
Dow Chem .................158%
Du Pont ..............,.,..,.182% 3-----, -
Emerson Elec ..... 12% Texas Co ........
General Motors 89% Tegas Gulf Pro .
Goodyear Tire .............. 50%
Graham Paige .............. 4
30%
29%
»♦»m
Safety ..
Gulf cni
Hous L and P Co
Houston Oil .....
Hudson Motors .
Humble Oil.......
hur ...
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