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STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY. TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1950
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NEHRU VISITS PAKISTAN-—Prime Minister Llaquat All Khan (left) and the Begum Lla-
quat Ah Khan welcome Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India (right) and his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi on a visit to Pakistan. The Prime Ministers discussed the Delhi
pact on minorities and Its recent acceptance by their governments. The conferences
marked Pandit Nehru's first visit to Karachi In five years.
Train Crew Fired Upon As
Strike Cripples Railroads
CHICAGO, May
Gunplay broke out
11 (UP) —
at Knoxville,
road (trike today and mass lay-
offs hit the crippled roads.
The Pennsylvania Railroad an-
nounced that it ia laying off 86,-
000 workers, all of whom will be
idle by tomorrow morning, and
cloning most of its offices and de-
partments fat the strike rone.
The New York Centr^j said 16,-
000 workers in its strike area
west of Buffalo, N.Y., already were
idle, and that it is laying off an-
other 26,000 immediately with the
possibility of furloughing still an-
other 10,000 in the future.
At KSMXville, white collar work-
ers W^o had replaced striking fire-
men and enginemen on the South-
ern Railway were fired upon from
ambush, but no one was hurt.
One bullet pierced a crewman’s
sleeve but no one was hurt. Strik-
ing locomotive firemen and eng-
inemen charged in turn that they
were Stoned oy strikebreakers.
Four Killed in
Collisions on
Highway 281
ANTELOPE (Jack County),
Ted, May 11 (UP)—Two automo-
biles collided head-on a mile north
of Antelope yesterday, killing
their four occupants.
The dead were identified by
Sheriff Lee Roberts as Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Cooper of Jacksboro
and Mrs. Hasel Osborne and Joe
Schuyler, both of Enid, Okla.
Roberts said the accident on
U.S. Highway 281 was one of the
worst in Jack county in many
years.
The first person upon the scene
was Frank Fulps of Mineral Wells,
a passing motorist. He dragged the
victims from the crumpled automo-
biles and said they must have died
at the time of impact.
Cream Quality
Meeting Held
A Cream Quality meeting was
by Swift A Company of
observed
-Bight-
Officials of the Southern Rail-
way, which had announced it would
try to move as many trains ae pos-
sible with supervisory personnel,
said one bullet was fired at each
Of two moving freight trains.
Railway spokesmen said the bul-
lets were fired from bushes along
the right-of-way between a freight
yard and a station.
.Union officials denied the shots
were fired by strikers.
Industry Feels Effect
Meanwhile, industry began feel-
ing the impact of the strike, which
had cut vital supply lines in 27
states. In Western Pennsylvania,
18 coal mines were forced to close
SM <|W8 arias* i-sseit thrown out
of work.
At Cleveland, the Fisher Body
plant and Midland Steel Co. had
closed, but hoped to get back into
partial production by using trucks
to haul finished materials to rail
lines not involved in the strike.
"Tile strike, called yesterday at 6
a.m. crippled the Pennsylvania, the
New York Central, the Santa Fe
and the Southern. Indirectly, it
curtailed operations of the Chesa-
ke A Ohio, and the Colorado A
pea
Sou
uthem.
TSC Students
Hurt in Crash
Two Tarleton students, Bob Love-
less and Giles Kemp, received
sfSrtSftfSSHS
Loveless, of Albany, received
fractured ribs, while Kemp, Has-
kell, received back injuries.
Two Dead,700 Homeless After
Floodwaters Sweep Oklahoma
ALL BUT 15
AMERICANS TO
LEAVE PRAGUE
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia. May
11 (UP)—The United States in-
structed all but 15 of the Ameri-
can employes at its'embassy today
to leave the country after Czecho-
slovakia warned it would not be
responsible for their safety be-
yond Sunday. *
The instruction were issued by
Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs.
American officials said Briggs
had decided to bow to a Czeehoslo-
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Douglas Walsworth
Participating in
Navy’s ‘Demon IP
Douglas Leve) 1 Walsworth, chief
boatswain’s mate, USN, of Ste-
phenville, is participating in
DEMON III with the Amphibious
Training Unit, Coronado, Calif., the
first 1950 major fleet exercises to
be held in West Coast waters, May
2-12.
Naval commands in Southern
California are playing host for the
third successive year to approxi-
mately 500 instructors and students
of the Army's Command and Gen-
eral Staff College,' Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan., who are witnessing
the exercises which are designed
to coincide with that phase of the
college’s curriculum in which joint
operations" are intensively studied.
Embarked in an escort aircraft
carrier, provided by the Navy as an
observers’ platform, the Staff Col-
lege are seeing Navy surface ships,
aircraft and underwater demolition
teams go through their paces at
San Clemente Island, off the
Southern California coast. Later,
ss a fleet marine
Hon of the First
Marine Division make an amphi-
bious assault on the beach at Aliso
Canyon, near Oceanside, Calif., un-
der simulated battle conditions.
LATE
WIRE
FLASHES
By UNITED PRESS
SECOND ESCAPE
TEXARKANA, May 11 (UP)—
Sherman A. Godwin was -Convicted
yesterday in federal court for es-
caping from the Miller county jail
here in May, 1949, and sentenced
a year and a day in the peni-
tentiary. The escape was the sec-
ond of Godwin’s long criminal
record. He had fled the Dallas
county jail ’ earlier, while await-
ing trial on a forgery "Sharge.
Senate Opposition to Truman
Effort to Abolish NLRB Post
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, May II (UP)
—The Senate today killed Presi-
dent Truman’s proposal to abol-
iah Robert N. Denham's job as
general counsel of the National
Labor Relations Board.
when operators of this territory
met for a steak dinner at Long
Hotel.
Present were Jess Carter, Fort
Worth; George Murphy of the-*
Stephenville office; W. R. Coiton,
Gerald Produce Company. Hamil-
ton; 8. A. Wright of the West
Henry Produce Company, Hamil-
ton; W. Blair of Blair Produce,
Gorman; Bullard Chambers of the
Hamilton Produce; F. M. Gerald,
Gerald Produce, Hamilton; Jim
Gray, Fincher Produce, De Leon;
Estes Browning, Blair Produce,
Gorman; Norman Clark, Hamilton
Produce; John Dunlap, West Henry
Produce; B. E. Bullock, Wooward
Produce, Hico; L. B. Mitchell, Mit-
chell Product, Iredell; G. T. Dowell,
Swift A Cdmpaay, Stephenville;
N. Littlcpage and J. E. Littlepage
of Littlepage Produce. Dublin;
James Neiman, Swift A Company,
Fort Wprth; Paul K. Loyd, Swift
Company, Fort Worth.
.WASHINGTON, May 11 (UP)
—Senate Republicans and South-
ern Democrats joined today in an
attack on President Truman’s plan
to abolish Robert N. Denham’s
job as general counsel of the Na-
tional Labor Relations Board.
Sen. John L. McLellan, D„ Ark.,
opened the attack as the Senate
debated a resolution to kill the
proposal. The resolution Is spon-
sored by Sen. Robert A. Taft, R.,
0., who said he is “very confident”
of victory. A vote is expected late
today.
McLellan, chairman of the Sen-
ate executive expenditure commit-
tee, said the plan actually attempts
to repeal part of the Taft-Hartley
labor law and would center greater
authority iirthe NLRB. He said all
reorganizatian plans are “tending
more in the direction of central-
isjng power in the executive branch
of government than lowardsPJreat-
er efficiency.”
Close Vote Expected
Administration leaders admitted
that the vote would be close. But
they said there was a “good
chance” of scoring an upset.
The president’s proposal would
become effective automatically
May 23 unless either the House or
Senate vetoes the plan. It would
abolish Denham’s job and trans-
fer his functions to the Labor
Board.
Elsewhere in Congress:
Reds—Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy
said the State Department’s brush-
off of his charge thhjt a top U.S.
diplomat helped slip secrets to
Moscow was “typical” of the de-
partment’s whitewash efforts. The
Soldier Injured
In Car Mishap
Phillip E. Buegeler, 19-year-old
soldier, received minor cuts and
bruises at 6:45 a.m. today when
his car plunged over an embank-
ment nine miles north of Stephen-
ville on U.S. 281.
The car was badly damaged. The
young soldier lost control and the
car went off the highway, highway
■petwlmeft.—-eaaea»«e4t- - The
Wisconsin Republican has charged
that the unidentified diplomat
passed the secrets to k Russian
agent who sent them on their way
to the Kremlin. But John E.
Peurifoy, deputy undersecretary of
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CRUDE OIL SALE
DALLAS, May 11 (UP)—Need
some crude cottonseed oil ? The
U. S. Department of Agriculture
put 14 tank cars of cottonseed oil
on the auction block yesterday, and
offers must reach the Production
and Marketing Administration’s
commodity officer here by 10 a.m.
May 12. Latham White, area com-
modity director at Dallas, said no
offers of less than 13 >4 cents per
pound will be considered.
Russian Officers
Taught English
FRANKFURT. Germany, May
It .(UP)—All Russian officers in
Soviet prisoner-of-war camps are
required to learn English, a Ger-
man prisoner who spent five years
in a Siberian camp said today.
Welhelm Borman, who was re-
leased recently, said a guard told
him Englsh was required "because
we expect to have these camps
full of American and British war
prisoners in four or five years.”
Borman has compiled a 200-page
report on Siberia on the request of
American intelligence officers.
Burial Held in
Sah Angelo for
B. EL Huggins, 85
Burial services were held at San
Angelo Thursday, May 11, for
Burrell Elijahs Huggins, 85, who
died at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. W. H. Robertson, in Stephen-
ville at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday. He
had been ill three weeks.
The deceased, a retired Baptist
minister, was born July 23, 1864, in
Alabama. He is survived by his
daughter, Mrs. Robertson; a daugh-
ter, Mrs. R. A. Halbert of Sonora;
a son, C. R. Huggins of Arlington,
Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Mary Riley
of Rosenberg; four granddaughters
and six great-grandchildren.
The body was taken overland to
San Angelo, Trewitt Funeral Home
announced.
ON “EXERCISE SWARMER”—A light tank Is loaded into a
nuge Air Force C-124 cargo plane for "Exercise Swarmer.”
America’s first all-air war maneuvers Some 4.000 para-
troopers were landed successfully along wit1-’ equipment in
“aggressor-held” territory for the world's r Meal appli-
cation of the techniques perfected in air lift
SJCC Golf Meet to Open
On Local Course Friday
The Southwest Junior College
golf meet will be held Friday and
Saturday, May 10-13, - over the
beautiful, rolling Stephenville Gdlf
Course. I
The 3,179-yard long course will
prove a real test for the collegiate
golfing crowd from Paris, Kilgore,
Esther Too Much
Or Not Enough
The Stephenville area received
1.25 inches of rainfall Wednesday
night, with the fall said to be
quite general.
Fruit crops and row crops will
benefit, it was said, but farmers
are behind with their field work.
Moisture from the last rain had
not dried entirely, and the added
moisture gives weeds and grass a
good start over workmen.
Form 17FI4.1S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
(12-28-49) BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
1950 CENSUS
HAVE YOU BEEN COUNTED?
The Census is nearing completion. If you have not been counted
here or anywhere else, please fill out the form below and mail it
immediately to the U. S. Census District Office at the address
shown.
My address on April 1, 1950 was:
Lamar, Arlington and Tarleton
State.
Paris will be the defending cham-
pion and with Frank Wear Jr.,
Billy Phillips and Carl Chambers
they will agam-be-strong contend-
ers for the-ieam arm individual
championships.
Lamjrt- of Beapmont will 'be the
chief threat, with Arlington State
of Aldington the dark horse. T
Le^Wise and /Royce McCacly of
| Tarleton State may prove ytough
I on their home course. /
s, Program
j, Information regarding the tour-
nament:
Starting time: 8 a.m. Friday.
Place: Stephenville Golf Course.
First round: Medal play for team
championship. Two players on each
team.
Friday afternoon: First round
match play for individual cham-
pionship.
Saturday morning: Second round
match play.
Saturday afternoon: Finals in
match play.
Teams entered are
Paris: Frank Wear Jr., Billy
Phillips, Carl Chambers.
FIRST DAMAGE
ESTIMATED AT
$1 MILLION UP
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 11—
(UP)—Floodwaters, which have
claimed two lives and left at least
700 persons homeless, swept over
Oklahoma—lowlands into eities to-
day after 24-hour rains measuring
as much as 13ts inches fell in
Oklahoma.
There was no official estimate
of damage, but it will run well over
$1,000,000 undoubtedly. Mayor Jack
! Livingston said damage at Pauls
1 Valley alone may run to $500,000.
Crops were damaged in the South-
west, which only a short time ago
was troubled with drought—and
road washouts will cost, many
thousands of dollars to repair.
Car Washes Off Bridge
Two persons drowned when their
car was washed off a bridge into
flood-swollen Salt Creek near Te-
cumseh, Okla., last night. Two
others clung to partly-submerged
trees and were rescued.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol
identified the victims as Mrs. Ha-
zel Dalen, 29,"mother of seven chil-
dren, and Jack King, 25, both of
Shawnee, Okla. King’s survivors
include two children.
The patrol said they were in an
automobile with Marie Berry, 23,
and Floyd Shackelford, 23, on U.S.
82. The patrol said the party drove
into “hip-deep” water on the bridge
despite warnings from other per-
sons in the area.
Skies were clearing in Western
Oklahoma today, but the forecast
called for more showers in the
southeast and extreme east early
tonight with clearing all over Ok-
lahoma by Friday.
At Waurika, Undersheriff H. C.
Bowling estimated 300 to 400 per-
sons were evacuated from lowland
homes as Cow Creek spilled over
and covered about one-third of the
city at 4,000 population. Waurika
caught a big overflow from Dun-
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Two Killed When
Plane Explodes
And Crashes
CAPE CHARLES, Va., May 11
(UP) — A two-engined plane
caught fire in the air, exploded
and crashed two miles from here
today, killing two occupants.
Witnesses believed the plane was
a Navy craft.
An eyewitness, Granville \ Mc-
Creary of Oyster, said bunding
part* of the plane also struck a
building there, igniting it. He said
the Buildi:| - was destroyed.
Turner said the fuselage was*
so thickly enveloped in smoke and
flame that it was impossible to
identify it. The bodies were not im-
mediately identified, either.
The sheriff said only men with
-s*r
em-
went end-over-end over an
bankment.
Buegeler is stationed at Fort Sill
and was en route to his home at
Burlington on leave.
Rabbit Stew?
T^e proprietor of a downtown
cafe heard something rustling
behind the counter Thursday.
Investigation revealed a small
rabhit.
“Where in the world did that
come from!” the proprietor ask-
ed the world in general.
No answer, but the grin on a
customer's face Indicated that he
kneri all about the animal's1
origin.
West Texas Hereford
Tour to Start Sunday
The annual West Texas Here-
ford tour will begin in Stephen-
ville Sunday, May 14, and the
itinerary for the three-day tour
has been announced by Henry Ar-
ledge, president.
Seventeen counties will be visit-
ed on the tour. Many of the best
herds in the nation are within a
radius of 200 miles of Abilene and
will be visited.
Itinerary follows:
Sunday, May 14, assemble at
Stephenville, guests of the Mid-
Texas Hereford Association.
Monday, May 15
Leave Stephenville an route to
Abilene and visit the following
J. Williams, Comanche; McBride
Brothers, Blanket; Cox A Mclnnis,
Byrd; John Will Vance, Santa
Anna; Bowen Hereford Rfnch and
Jim and Fay Gill, Coleman. Lunch-
eon at the Coleman Rodeo Grounds,
guests of Coleman county breed-
ers.
Dorothea Griffin and John Small-
wood, Lawn; A. E. Fogle A Son,
Tuscola; Mrs. Rupert Harkrider,
Abilene.
Spend the night in Abilene. En-
tertainment, guests of West Texas
Breeders Association.
Tuesday, May 16
Tour the following ranches; Earl
Guitar’s Grissom Hereford Ranch
and W. J. Fulwiler Hereford Ranch,
Abilene; Roy Largent A Sons, L.
S. Hereford*. Merkel; Walter
Boothe’s Hereford Ranch and Paul
Turner’s Hereford Ranch, Sweet-
water; Dr. T. p. Young, Roscoe.
Lunch “on the creek” six mile*
south of Roscoe, guests of Dr. and
Mrs. T. D. Young.
Tom Flack's Hereford Ranch,
John and lone Perry, Dr. A. J.
Wimberly, Dr. H. W. McIntyre,
Sweetwater.
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Tarleton'State; Lee Wise, Royce ! where the fuselage crashed in the
McCarty, Cash Wileman, James swamp.
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Arlington State: Jimmy Ditto, | Riif
Chas. Hedrick, Jimmy Reynolds, j llucc 111 VM1C UUl
Darrell Sexton.
Kilgore: Billy Bob Barker, Billy I
Stephens, Tommy McDaniels, Billy <
McDaniels.
Lamar: Richard Goerlich, Ray
Moore, Judson Thomas, Robert
Morcman.
Local golf enthusiasts are wel-
come to come out and watch the
collegiaterJrNfars Or'aclifyi. There
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BULLETIN
CARNATION, Wash., May 11
(UP) — A young gunman who held
up the Washington State Bank
«as captured 13 minutes later
today
Not Machine Oil
A Stephenville hen lays 3-in-l
eggs.
The hen belongs to Mrs. J. A-
Flanary, and always lays big
eggs. Wednesday, however, Mrs.
Flanary noticed that the daily
egg was larger than uyua~
——ftbF-gHTV trie rgg to ip'igTiT)ors,
Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Rose, and the
Roses had it for breakfast.
The egg had three perfect
yolks and made a skillet full of
scrambled eggs.
“All we could eat,” said Mr.
and Mrs. Rose.
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Old Post Office Bldg.
Abilene, Texas
Big Three Agree to
Prepare for War
LONDON, May (UP)—The Big
Three foreign ministers surveyed
the problems of the world today
and agreed they must strengthen
their defenses and economies
against the possibility of another
world war.
The AEn^rican, British and
French ministers met for f our
hours.
Their first talks of the confer-
ence ranged all over the world,
from East to West, and a spokes-
man said “the twain met.”
The opening day of the confer-
ence wag overshadowed by a sen-
sational French proposal for pool-
ing the coal and steel industries
of France and Germany, and per-
haps all of Western Europe.
Attlee Comments .
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
of Britain told the House of Coni-
nions that the French move would
have “far-reaching implications”
for the internal economic struc-
ture of Western European coun-
tries.
The Big Three ministers reach-
ed no specific decisions today. They
will continue their discussion to-
morrow. The , major point of a
statement they issued after their
meeting' said:
“It is recognized that in the
present world situation the preser-
vation of peace requires renewed
efforts of cooperation in all fields,
particularly in building up of an
effective defense through the
North Atlantic Treaty and the
strengthening of the economic
foundations of the W’estern’ pow-
ors to support these efforts.”
Spokesmen said later that one
of the major problems was to find
a way to increase defense pro-
grams and finance them without
disrupting economic recovery pro-
ms, especially after Marshall
Plan aid fends.
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