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Morton Citizens Warned: 30,000,000 In U. S. Doomed
Texas Hosts Facing Red Death
PRICE TEN CENTS Your Hometown Daily Newspaper
Washington dlKknen that basic
training will continue through the
coming Christmas and New Year
period tor most of the recruits in
the armed forces. The only ex-
ceptions, generally, will he one-day
gkv«tn torYr
emits.
Judith Coplon, the young
woman twice conv4cted of spy-
ing for Soviet Russia, Will pro-
vide the new administration
headaches too. The knotty
quef^f.i about what to do about
jj»e. former government girl
has caused lawyers to regard
the whole matter as a legal
nightmare. Two appeals courts
have said she Is entitled to a
new trial.
President Truman’s primary pur
pose in meetings with President-
elect Eisenhower next Tueesday
Is to make certain that Ike Is in-
formed on major world problems.
That is what officials say in Wash-
ington.
L'
Secretary of State Aoheson is re-
ported at the United Nations, N.
Y., getting ready to seek assur-
ances from President-elect Eisen-
hower next week that the general
will supportr present American
diplomatic policy in Korea. Ache-
son is scheduled to sit in on Elsen-
hower’s huddle w i th President
Truman.
Trygve Lie states in New
York that he is willing to re-
main another year as UN sec-
retary general if the Russians J
and the West cannot agree on
his successor. Lie’s close
friend, Abraham Feller, New
Deal lawyer, leaped "to his
death last Thursday as the re-
sult of “worry” over the Me-
Carran Senate subcommittee’s
probe of Communism in the
UN.
President-elect Dwight D. Eisen-
hower has accepted membership
in the Honorary National Commit-
tee of the Negro Athletic Hall of
Fame Association. The association
is planning a hall of fame in Har-
lem.
L. C. McGee, 1*. died yesterday
from a broken neck and sipnal in-
juries. The Hoityville High School
football player in.California receiv-
ed the Injuries in a game Thurs-
day. ^
David J. McDonald, the late
Philip Murray’s right-hand man
the last 80 years, took over yester-
day his old boss’s job as head of
the CIO United Steelworkers. The
USW’s 36-member executive board
named McDonald acting president.
Father of Six Shot
To Death In Yard
FORT WORTH, Nov. 15 (JB -For-
est McNeel, 38, father of six, was
shot to death today as he sto6d
in a yard at Arlington.
His wife, sitting in the family
car nearby, saw the shooting. A
cyear-old man was arrested.
No Skin Off . . .
ADVANCE, N. C., Nov. 15 (*--
Ber^Mock bet on Gov. Adlai Steven-
son to win the presidential race.
Today he paid off by pushing a
peanyt across the main street of
this community with his nose.
But i( was no skin off Mock's
nose.
He promptly auctioned off. the
goober for $170 cash to benefit teh
fire department.
The Great Speckled Bird is be-
lieved to have existed about the
time of
Riddled Bodies
Of Couple Found
Ai Side of Road
ABILENE, Nov. 15 IPi-The rid-
dled bodies of the wife of a Sweet-
water farmer-oilman and an Abi
lene grain salesman were found to-
day beside a car on a country road
about 20 miles southwest of here.
The dead were Mrs. Fred Ohlerv
busch, about 40. and James Henley,
14, salesman for an Abilene Mill
and Elevator Company.
The husband, Fred Ohlenbusch,
49, was jailed. A complaint against
him charging two counts of murder
was signed by Ranger Jim Paulk.
District attorney John A. Will-
oughby gave this account:
Three men drove up on Mrs.
Ohlenbush and Henley about 2
p.m. after the shooting.
The bodies were lying* on the
ground near the car. Henley had
been shot three times. Mrs. Ohlen-
busch had been shot once.
Ohlensbusch owns a farm and a
country store at Inadale, five miles
northwest of Sweetwater. He also
dealt in oil leases. He has four
children, two of them married.
Henley is survived by his widow
and two sons.
Ohlenbusch told reporter Georgia
Nelson of the Abilene Reporter-
News he and Mrs. Ohlenbusch had
been divorced several years ago
and she had married another man.
But. he said, she got a second di-
vorce and remarried him.
I'Tdnicif Go Home" Is SfogdiTfn England-
Crash of Pickup
Takes Lives of 5
BIG SPRING. Nov. 15 (43- Five
persons in a pickup truck* were
killed tonight in a collision with
a truck near a curve on Highway
80 about four miles west of here.
The trtick driver escaped unin-
jured.
Two men, a woman and two chil-
drn were killed.
The men were identified tenta-
tively from papers as Ishmeal
Donaldson, 29, an employe of the
Wooley Tool Co. of Odessa, and
Glendon Wallace. 21, Odessa.
Officers theorized the others
were the wife and two children
—about 2 and 3 years old —of
Donaldson.
The driver of the big truck was
Norman Ledford of Odessa.
McCarthy Hails
Return of Dies
HOUSTON, Nov. 15 Senator
Joseph McCarthy said today the
return of Texas' Martin Dies to
Congress is ’’one of the healthiest
signs in the whole election pic-
ture.”
The Wisconsin Republican said
he expects Dies to join him in his
fight against Communism.
"They tried to kill him political-
ly by smearing him. but it’s grat-
ifying that he's back,” McCarthy
said.
Dies is former chairman of the
House Un - American Activities
Committee.
McCarthy arrived last night for
a vacation visit with Douglas Mar-
shall, Oilman Hugh R. Cullen's
son-in-law.
British Don't Like Yank Airmen
County's Gins In Full Blast
Hockley Cotton Crop
Going Over Prediction
With a total of 119,934 bales of
cotton ginned from the 1952 crop,
indications arc that this year’s
harvest easily will exceed the 150,-
000 prediction reached by most ag-
ricultural observers early in the
season. County Agent Bill R. Tay-
lor said Saturday.
The ginning figures quoted by
Taylor, which he said might be
"off a few bales one way or the
other,” were gathered from the
county's 37 gins, which have been
running full blast the past few
weeks.
"On the basis pf this 119,934 bale
figure and seasonal conditions, it’s
hard to prdict just how far beyond
the 150,000-balc mark we’ll go,”
the agent said. “I’m of the opin-
ion," he continued, “that the crop
is about two-thirds harvested. That
would mean somewhere in the
neighborhood of 160,009 bales at
the end of the season.” • _
With mechanical harvesters in
action, migrant labor crews are
leaving the county in droves. The
county agent predicted that within
a week or ten days nearly all the
gathering would be by mechanical
harvesters, of which there are
more than 500 in the county.
This year’s crop is being har-
vested several weeks earlier than
in any recent year because of the
unusually early frost last October,
the agent explained. In addition
to maturing the cotton severa
weeks ahead of time, the frost
played havoc with the county’;
grain crop, cutting down what hac
promised to be a bumper yield
Some of the early grain was
haryested as such, but most of it
following the frost, went into bun-
dles ahd bales for livestock feed
That The People May Know
Added Wire Gives Readers
"Hof News" While Its Hoi
That its readers may be
among the best informed in
the world, the Daily Sun
News this past week took an-
other far-reaching step—the
addition of a full-leased As-
sociated'Press wire.
To staff members it means
added excitement, greater
speed—to Daily Sun News
readers it means complete
coverage of world events as
they happen. '
Fcr, from midnight until 7
o'olock each morning, the of-
fices of the Daily Sun News
will be connected directly
with the Associated Press
room in New York City —
the clearing room for stories
written throughout the world
by thousands of members of
the Associated Press.
At 7 o'clock each morning
the wire will be switched to
the Associated Press offices
in Dallas, AP's headquarters
In the Southwest. And until
3 o’clock each evening, news
of great and little import will
pour Into the offices of the
Daily Sun News.
But this Is not all—for as
the AP Teletype pounds out
the news here In Levelland,
Hockley County—on a ma-
chine similar to an automatic
typewriter—another machine
in the officea of the Daily
Sun News will punch a paper
tape.
In turn this tape will be fed
automatically through the
keyboard of a typesetting ma-
chine that will produce the
base material that prints your
newspaper.
Thua, any event, great or
small, recorded by the world-
wide facilities of the Associa-
ted Press, will be reproduced
In the offices of the Dally
Sun News as quickly as it Is
reported—whether the event
be in China, South America,
or Dog Patch.
And, as was said In the be-
ginning, this is just another
step by the Dally Sun News to
bring you, Its readers the lat-
est, finest, and best newspa-
per possible.
One-Year-Old Ronnie Gives Oldsmobile
'Merry' Whirl and Caves in Two Walls
At 21 months old, Ronnie Cur
rington isn’t old enough to qual-
ify for a driver’s licence test, but
he’s had his first lesson.
Ronnie manned the controls
Friday afternoon after his mother
had left the,family automobile, its
motor running, In a friend’s drive-
way at 218 Cherry St.
Ronnie managed to shift the car
from neutra] into low and step on
the gas, but from that point on he
Editors Blast Secrecy in U. S.
By CHARLES T. BURNS
BOSTON, Nov. 15 W)-Managing
editors of the nation said today
■that secrecy is the “refuge of
corrupt, wicked and reactiouary
government" and urged complete
freedom of information concerning
government agencies.
Specifically, the concluding ses-
sion of the annuhl meeting of The
Associated Press Managing Editors
Association xecommended revoca-
tion at President Truman's order
of Sept. 25, 1951 restricting infor-
mation on activities of federal
bodies. 5»
Congress and state legislatures
were urged, in a resolution on free-
dom of information, "to give the
most careful scrutiny to all enact- feasance, tyranny and oppression."
ments to see to it that provision Th" editors also proposed that
is made for the full disclosure to ««»hority »«. ''***'% documents
the public of those transact.ons of ••confidential.” and ”re-
govempicnt that are the just and stricted.” be limited to military
proper concern of the public , .security, agencies.
The resolution continued: "And Continuous review of such classi-
be it further resolved that the offi- fications by an “authority other
cers of the government of the. than the classifying authority” was
United States, the officials of the [ recommended by the group,
several atates, and thoae of the j A pledge of assistance waa given
counties and cities of the. United to James A. Pope of the Louisville
(Ky.7 Courier-Journal in "his sus- “i(1- He did it’ ”
States, be and hereby are urged
to conduct publicly the public busi-
ness, to make continuously that
full disclosure of all public trans-
actions that is the foundation of
our freedom and the surest safe- of the American Society of Newt-
guard against corruption and mal-! paper Editors.
tatned fight for freedom of infor-
mation.” Pope, retiring APME
director, is chairman of the Com-
mittee on Freedom of Information
couldn’t do much with the 1951
Oldsmobile redan.
The car crashed into a small
frame house at the end of the
driveway, plunged through the
wail and across the kitchen and
into the other wall before coming
to a stop.
City Policeman Bill Sage, who,
with Jiis fellow officer Vernon
"Shorty” Carleton, investigated
the accident, said ar high board
left after the cac/had torn down
the wall was all that stopped the
automobile's rear wheels.
The only injury to the driver
was a small “pump knot” above
his right eye, officers said. Dam-
age tp the automobile and the
house was estimated at “about
$650.”
Policeman Sage said Mrs.,Cur-
rlngton was holding the child
in her arms and surveying the
damage when he and Policeman
Carleton arrived.
“I asked her who did it,” Sage
said, “and almost fell over when
the nodded toward the child and
| Police Chief Hardin,- listening
in as Policeman Sage related the
incident to a reporter, observed
that even such a young driver as
Ronnie didn’t cause as much dafo-
age'as many drivers much older.
By PHIL CLARKE
LONDON, ftov. 15 (4V The U. S.
Air Force is taking direct action
tef combat reported bad feeling be-
tween some British 1 civilians and
American airmen in Britain.
Maj. Gen. Francis H. Griswold
has scheduled a series of flying
visits to all nine major American
air bases in England, beginning
Monday, to lecture on the impor-
tance of good behavior. He is com-
mander of the U. S. Third Air
Force in Britain."
A reindoctrin&tion campaign is
under way to drive home to fliers
and ground staffs alike—a total ot
45,000 men — the desirability of
maintaining friendly relations with
their British allies.
The Air Force also has started
m-the-spot checks of conditions in
•ities, near American bases, pub-
licized by some British newspapers
is trouble zones.
Officers said today the investi-
gation so far has showed little evi-
lence of serious trouble between
he airmen and civilians, though
hey did not deny Some antagon-
ism. They blamed Communists and
iensationalized reports of occasion-
ll trouble for stirring up much of
the bad feeling.
Griswold told a reporter that in-
cidents are relatively few and often
ire considerably exaggerated.
"We have every reason to be-
ieve that the behavior of our
orees -generally is good,” the gen-
•al said. "W aim to mak sur
t stays that way.”
The Air Force's counteraction
followed publication last week of a
report by a private 14-member
3ritish and American group aay-
ng "the situation is serious" and
sailing for joint British and Amer-
can action to correct it.
The Communists arc exploiting
he situation by an organized
'3anks go home” campaign, this
rroup said, and the campaign “is
being echoed by certain extreme
rationalist elemehts here.”
Heart Attack Fatal
To Local Resident
Mrs. Dorptha Molena Spoonta
of 209 Ave. N, a resident of Level-
land for about a month, died at
U:30 a. m. Saturday in Phillips-
Dupre Hospital where she had
been admitted a few\hours earlier
»fter suffering a heart attack.
Mrs. Spoonts, who was 53, made
•her home with her son, Virgil
Spoonta. Another son. Edward
and a brother, Bruce Norris, of
Boise, Idaho, also slrvive.
A San Angelo funeral home
ambulance came after the body
Saturday afternoon and took it to
Mertzon for funeral services and
burial Monday.
In Crash
SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 15 M — A
big Air Force Flying Boxcar car-
rying U. S. troops and a load of
Christmas presents from Japan
crashed into a mountain near
Seoul yesterday, killing all 44 per-
sons aboard. >
The Air Force called it "tne
“worst transport disaster” since
the Korean War began. The troops
were on their way back to war
duty after short five-day leaves in
Japan.
A ground party reached the
burned wreckage late Saturday
and expected to return to the Seoul
area about midnight with the bod-
ies of 37 soldiers and seven Air
Force crewmen.
The plane smashed into a "V”
shaped point about 2,200 feet high,
where two mountain ridges joined
some 18 miles cast ol Seoul. The
terrain was so rugged helicopters
could not land.
A reporter who accompanied the
round party to the scene said
four of the victims were in para-
chute harness with their ’chutes
open. No-one could say whether
they ad cleard the plan befor
it crasd.
Kosan peasants usihg sign lan-
guage told te search party they
had seen five chutes stream from
the plane.
The reporter, Patricia Scott of
the English language Nippon
Times in Tokyo wrote:
“The wreckage was in two sec-
tions, about 100 yards apart. Per-
sonal effects including pictures of
loved ones and Christmas presents
bought in Japan, were strewn on
the hillside.
"It was a pitiful sight. As I
walked through the wreckage, 1
found many Christmas presents
that the fellows had bought while
on R. and R. (rest and recrea-
tion) in Japan.
’“riiere were many gifts for
women and children. One of them
was a little pair of pink pajamas
for a child. It was partly burned.
“One duffie bag contained n
lady's wrist watch and a small
record player. I also saw several
pairs of embroidered satin ladies
slippers of Japanese make.”
Helicopters dropped stretchers
and supplies to the search party
for the evacuation of the dead.
Most of the bodies were horribly
mangled or charred. The Air
Force made no identification of
the victims pending notification of
relatives..
However, a Far East Air Forces
spokesman announced the highest
ranking soldier aboard was a war-
rant officer and the highest rank-
ing flier was a captain.
Airman Loses Life
In Oklahoma Crash
ARDMORE, Okla., Nov. 15 (*l—
Charles Hazen, 23, Carswell Air
Force Base airman, died today,
the second victim of a car-truck
collision near here. Charles Tun-
stall. 27, also of £arswell, was
killed instantly last night when the
car he was driving sidewiped a
truck parked along Highway 77.
Christians Are Listed No. 3
In Mass Liquidation Timetable _
(Special to 'Ihe Sim News)
MORTON — A hair-raising account of what interna-
tional Communism is likely to do to American citizens
within the next 10 years was given to Mortonans in a one-
day series of lectures by Dr. Fred C. Schwarz of Brisbane,
Australia.
11 VYtidfttinn of some i’ALUtUVAAM /.saeciaRMBawicltiding
thousands of Texans is on the Communist timetable, warn-
ed Schwarz.
“Communism has devastated half the earth already,”
he declared.
Empty Pews Called
Help to Commies
Communism is being helped in
the United States by people who
stay away from churches.
That is what Dr. Fred C.
Schwarz of Brisbane, Australia,
told the Morton Lions Club. The
speaker who was sponsored in the
community by the local clubs in-
cluding tne 1936 Study Club, L’-
Alegro Club, Sewing Club and the
American Legion Auxiliary, said
that the greatest indifference to
Communism was in the groups
who did not’attend church. A self-
styled Baptist lay preacher,
Schwarz said that Communism
flourished among the masses
where there was doubt of the Bible,
the Virgin Birth and disbelief in
Christ.
“Communism finds a fertile
field in non-Christian groups and
organizations,” he said.
• • •
Plains Couple
Killed in Crash
PLAINVIEW, Nov. 15 UB —Earl
B. Shattuck, 29, of Lubbock and
Mis* Pauline Fisher, 21. of Plain-
view were killed In a hehd-on auto-
mobile collision today five miles
south of Hale Center.
Shattuck was' killed instantly.
Miss Fisher died later in a Lub-
bock hospital. Shattuck was a ci-
vilian employe at Reese Air Force
Base at Lubbock.
Mrs. Shattuck, 29. and Orval
Latta, about 35, Trinidad, Colo.,
were injured seriously. Latta was
driving alone.
Shattuck was driving the other
car. Miss Fisher was his Niece.
Also in the car was Shattuck’s two
children, Bobby and David, and
R. J. Ray, 19, his nephew.
June in November.
By The Associated Press
It was almost June in November
over most of the nation Saturday,
almost too warm even for top-
coats.
The exceptions were the Upper
Mississippi Valley, where the tern
peratures generally were 10 to 20
degrees lower than Friday, apd
the West Coast and Rocky Moun-
tain area which had rain and some
light snow.
The San Francisco Rav ar»* h-d
2.59 inches of rain during the 24-
hour period. There was light rain
in the eastern portions of the Ohio
Valley.
The mild weather was expected
to continue through Sunday.
VISHINSKY WARNS U. N. . . . Communiat Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky
(right) gestures as he tells the United Nations political committee in New York
that the U. N. adoption of an American resolution backing up the unified com-
mand negotiators would lead inevitably to collapse of the truce talks and expan-
sion of the Korean war. Seated at left (h ead down) is U. S.
Speaking lo the Lions Club at
noon, to high school students in
the afternoon and to a public gath-
ering at the First Methodist Church
at night, the Australian psychia-
trist said that Christian ministers
and active church workers came
third on die Communist liquida-
tion lists. "First the Communists
will kill off the party members
they do not trust, second former
Communists who have left the par-
ty and third they will get to Chris-
tians," lie said.
Non Party Merchants
The speaker said that after
Christians will come the “bur-
gt-oise” which will include non-
party merchants, industrialists and
civic club members like Kiwaniarss
Lions and Rotarians.
The Australian said that he be-
lieved the conquest of the United
States would come principally
from overseas armies. “Commun-
ism is a malignant disease afflict-
ing the world that is beyond com-
pare,” said the speaker. ’’Its prin-
ciples are being taught in every
college in the United States today.
It is spurred by the encouraging
of disbelief in God and evolution.”
Communism has threfc principal
tenets, Dr. Schwarz said.
They are:
1. There Is no God.
S. Man ha* no soul, no spirit
and then1 is no heaven or beH;
man is an animal only.above the
beasts.
3. Man is a product "of his eco-
nomic environment and that the
“root of ail evil’ ’la the capitalist
system.
The speaker said that the emo*
tions which Christians practice like
parental love are looked upon by
Communists as a "disease.”
Scientists Above All
He said that Communists regand
themselves as scientists above aU-
and that in their liquidation Otf
already performed in Europe
where millions have been slaugh-
tered. they would kill on the laws
of "animal husbandry.” A "disea-
sed animal." he said, could be a
Christian. Many Christian infants
would be destroyed on the premise
that they 'have been infected by
their parents.
The psychiatrist who gave up a
lucrative practice in Australia to
hring a warning message to Amer-
icans went on to declare that peo-
ple were "dumbolls” who under-
estimated the power of Commu-
nism.
He pointed out that during World
War I, a comparative "handful”
of Bolsheviks took the reins of the
Russia*. The leaders included Len-
in and the American tailor, Trot-
sky. They had followers estimated
at only 40,000. Nevertheless, the
Bolsheviks were the dictators of
all Russia within six months.
Widespread purges followed and
entire sections of peasants (farm-
ers) were starved to death.
After the conquest of Germany, i
Communism spread all over Eu- j
rope and today it controls 800 mtt-
lion people.
"Do you have the intelligence to
comprehend that Communism
showed a two million per
crease since World War I?’
the speaker. "No business
make that progress and
recognized as having skillful
agement. Communism has
management."
“A Wide Appeal”
Schwarz said that Comrnui
appealed to millionaires ai
Christian ministers because
fered to curet the alia of
He said they had their
the goal of Communism,
Communist promise to use
to eliminate poverty has a
appeal,” Schwarz said.
. “People are against*
in this country like
gainst polio,” he said,
against, it,’ they’d say.
kind of opposition 4s m
unless they study an
and find a preventive
Communism is going to
Americans than
other diaeaaes
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