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College Library
T«rleton State Colley*
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WEATHER
By United Preet
Partly cloudy this afternoon,
tonight and Wednesday. A lit'
tie cooler tonight, lowest near
61 degrees.
phenville Daily Empire
Shall They Have
Died In Vain?
Vol. 1. No. 192. FULL UNITKftXPBESB LEAS!
STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS TUESDAY. MAY 30, 1960.
SIX PAGES. PER COPY Sf
Gun Battle Between Four Poles and
Soviet Zone Police Fatal
T
One
HOLIDAY DEATH
TOt,ADD, SETS
Pictured above is the full-size duplicate of the Liberty Bell
which will be shown in Stephenville June 30. The bell is
the symbol of the Independence Savings Bond Drive which
began May 15 and will continue through July 4. Texas is so
big that It had to borrow a replica bell from New Mexico.
The bell will stop at Brown wood June 23, Abilene and San
Angelo June 24. June 26, the bell will be in Snyder, Sweet-
water and Hamlin. It will visit Anson, Stamford and Ver-
non June 27. Wichita Falls. Bowie and Jacksboro will be
visited June 28. and June 29 it will be shown at Graham
and Breckenridge. It will visit Eastland, Cisco, Ranger and
Stephenville June 30. Erath county’s quota in the drive is
362,800. The bell will be shown at the court house square
on its visit to Stephenville.
Texas Storms Leave 2
Or More Persons Dead
Br UNITED PBESS
At least two persons were known
to be dead today as a direct re-
sult of storms which swept across
North Texas into the eastern sec-
tion of the state last night.
Three baby tornadoes swooped
into Fannin county near Monks-
town, but an old-fashioned hail-
storm caused the heaviest damage
at Greenville.
Heaviest rainfall reported was
3.89 inches at Tyler; Lufkin had
2.46; Palestine 1.41; Texarkana
1.26; Fort Worth .72 and Dallas
.67.
Greenville police said “many
thousands of dollars of damage
have been done” to the area after
the severe wind and hail storm
struck.
Hundreds of lines were blown
down around Greenville. Billy
Webb Jr. stepped on a live wire
and was electrocuted at Peniei, a
suburb of Greenville.
As the power lines toppled to
the ground Greenville went with-
out electric service for more than
three hours.
Blew Cars off Tracks
Winds were so strong they
swept five Cotton Belt line box-
ears off their tracks near Green-
ville, disrupting service at least 12
hoars. »
In addition to Greenville and
suburban Peniei, the storm slapped
at Jacoby and Tidwell, to the
north, and damaged several houses.
State highway patrolmen said
the small towns of Ladonio, Honey
Grove and Wolf* City, near Green-
ville, had been hit by violent wind
storm which blew several houses
off their foundations.
Three separate rain and hail
storms, accompanied by high winds
hit Henderson last night and early
today. The mins measured 3.09
Was reported at Tatum, 19 miles
northeast" of Henderson, apd at
Carthage in Panola county.
Tomato crops were flattened,
while other crops were hard-hit
in the area. The heavy winds blew
trees over the highway, blocking
traffic, while automobiles were
dented by the hail. Most creeks
reached flood stage.
Frightened to Death
An aged Negro Ed McKenzie,
literally was frightened to death
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CHICAGO, May 30 (UP)-ytn
all-time record in traffic fatalities
for the Memorial holiday was es-
tablished today, with the home-
bound highway jam still to come.
A United Press survey showed
that 406 persons had died violently
in the nation since Friday evening.
The toll included 264 deaths in
traffic, 11 in plane crashes, 63
drownings and 78 deaths from mis-
cellaneous causes.
The National Safety Council call-
ed the mounting traffic toll a “mas-
sacre" and pleaded for caution on
the part of homebound motorists.
Generally good weather over
most of the country lured millions
of pleasure-seekers to the open
road for drives in the country, pic-
nics, or to beaches and fishing
streams.
Many Events Scheduled
Most larger cities staged Memo-
rial Day parades and baseball
games. Race tracks and other
sports events drew additional
thousands. More than 100,000 race
fans poured to the big 600-mile
auto race at Indianapolis.
For many, it was a day of the
traditional trip to the cemetery to
honor the war dead.
Safety Council officials feared
the traffic deaths would far out-
strip the 263 fatalities recorded
over the three-day Memorial Day
holiday last year.
This year, however, the holiday
was a four-day affair for many
persons who did not have to Work
Monday. Others who made two
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il :': 3' 4 Sr s
CUSH OCCURS IN TIMES SQUIRE
OF BERLIN IS TOOTH BILLY ENDS
BERLIN, May 30 (UP)—Four men in Polish Army uniforms
today dashed with Soviet-zone police in a gun battle on the
border between Eastern and Western Berlin.
One Pole, dressed as an officer, was believed killed in the
clash and a Communist policemen was wounded. Hundreds of
civilians witnessed the brief but fierce gun play in Potadamer
Platz, Berlin’s “Times Square.1
D.C.’S SESQUICENTENNIAL MEDAL—A beautiful and Inspiring medal, commemorating
the 150th birthday of the national capital. Is now being struck by artisans of the United
States Mint at Philadelphia. Authorized by Congress, the medal marks the establishment
of the nation’s permanent capital as ordained by the Founding Fathers In the Constitu-
tion- The copper-bronze medal will be sold for 31 and the silver medal for 35.
Mothershead Cottage
Sold to Moosebergs
Mothershead Cottage, long a fa-
mous landmark in this area of the
state, has been sold to F. O.
Mooeeberg, it was announced Tues-
day.
Built 61 years ago, the 23-room
boarding house on Tarleton Ave-
nue will be redecorated. The new
owner announced that new equip-
ment will be installed in the kitch-
en, and that the larpe living room
will be converted into a dining
room. Floors and walls will be re-
finished. Family style meals will
be discontinued.
The new owner has had charge of
TSC dining hall for the past four
years.
Built by the late H. A. Mother-
shead and Mrs. Mothershead, the
cottage stands on a lot 126 feet by
263 feet, extending from street to
street across the block.
Bought Site la 1898
Mr. and Mrs. Mothershead pur-
chased the property 62 years ago
and built their first cottage a year
later. Within two years it was
necessary to enlarge the building
to its present size, so great was
the demand for rooms and meals.
Classmates of
50 Years Ago
Hold Reunion
l. \ 1 *>
Thirty classmates of the Hico
school of TO to 62 years ago held
their annual reunion in Hico Friday
and Saturday, May 26 and 27.
. Will Hooker, Stephenville, was
V Cost to the classmates at his home
fgr breakfasts on Friday, Satur-
____Jay «n3 Sunday mornings, to a
finch at the Airport Cafe, and to
a party at his home.
“We played spin-the-bottle and
snap and other old-time games,’’
Hooker announced. “My neighbors
phoned and wanted to know what
was going on,'and I told them that
things hadn’t even started good
yet.
Some of the classmates hadn’t
seen each other in 50 years. Thsy
hailed from California, Chicago.
Kansas City and other scattered
points. 'The reunion was held at
the club bouse at Hico. , ” ‘
Mr. Mothershead had come to Ste-
phenville from Alabama, where
Mrs. Mothershead had been born.
Mrs. Mothershead will maintain
her residence at the cottage. Now
confined to the hospital with a
broken hip, the well-known and
loved lady will be 84 years old in
October.
“I’ve had a large family of
friends,” Mrs.- Mothershead said
when interviewed about the cot-
tage. “The cottage was almost out
in the country when built, for there
were not many houses in the local-
ity. I wish that I had kept a diary
during the years I lived at Mother-
shead Cottage, and operated it.
‘Chicken Every Sunday’ wouldn’t
even be in the,running.”
Nation Stops on Memorial
Day to Remember War Dead
Eyewitnesses said the shooting
started when the four Poles started
toward the British sector and were
stopped on the border by four East
zone police.
One of the Poles, wearing an of-
ficer’s uniform, drew a machine
pistol (light submachine gun) and
SfiScRSSL fire. A policeman fell,
wounded, and the other three took
cover behind a pile of rubble.
As civilians scrambled for cover,
the police opened fire with tommy
guns and bullets whizzed over the
square, where the Russian, British
and American sectors of Berlin
join.
The Polish officer fell to the
ground, and Western police said
he probably had been killed. Two
other Polish-uniformed men sur-
rendered as police reinforcements
were rushed to the scene.
Colonel Moore
Attends Army's
Logistics School
Lt. Col. Leslie S. Moore, 46, of
Bradshaw, Maryland,- recently at-
tended LOGEX-60, I960 version of
the Army's annual exercise in log-
istics at Fort Baivoir, Va.
More than 2300 participants, rep.
resenting 22 agencies of the armed
forces, engaged in an intensive re.
view of that branch of the military
art which embraces the details of
military movement, supply and
evacuation.
Taking the form of a map ma-
neuver, the exercise involves the
support of a field army and a tac-
tical air force by a logistical com-
mand. The logistical command is a
postwar concept of an organization
of a theatre of operations in sup-
port of the combat elements. Logis-
tical commands exist today only as
training units in the reserve com-
ponent. Derivation of new doctrine
respecting the use and composition
of zueb units is one of the more im-
portant by-products expected from
the maneuver.
Colonel Moore, currently enrolled
as a student in the advanced offic-
ers course at the Army Chemical
Center (Chemical Corps School)
was born at Comanche, Texas, in
November of 1903 and is a gradu-
ate of Comanche High School. He
received his B.S. at Texas A. & M.
College, and a B.S. in chemical en-
gineering at Baylor University.
The colonel is a veteran of 20
months overseas service in the
Mediterranean Theatre of Opera-
tions.
WASHINGTON, May 30 (UP)
—Americans paused to remember
their war dead today amid warn-
ings by top military and civilian
leaders that greater efforts are
needed to stop Communism and
avoid another shooting war.
’ In Memorial Day services
throughout the nation, prayers and
prescriptions for peace were offer-
( ed. President Truman had ordered
the day se$ aside for “prayer . . .
for divine aid in bringing peace to
a troubled world.”
Marshall Main Speaker
Surrounded by veterans’ graves.
! on the green slopes of Arlington
National Cemetery, Gen. George C.
Marshall summed things up by
saying another shooting war would
be “intolerable”, leaving victor
as well as vanquished in “ruins.”
The former secretary of state
and wartime Army chief of staff
urged the nation to keep faith
with “our lost comrades” with a
three-point peace offensive:
1. Support the United Nations
and turn aside all proposals foi
kicking Soviet Russia and her sat-
tellites out of the organizaton. One
such proposal has come from for-
mer President Herbert Hoover.
2. Provide material aid to help
poverty-stricken peoples get their
“fair share of the God-given rights
of human beings.” A large part of
the world’s turmoil stems not
from Communist agitation, but
“from an upsurge of peoples who
have long suffered in poverty and
misrule.”
3. “Spiritual regeneration which
Would restoiW a feeling of good
■tmitb. . . .’’ America must take the
lead in bringing to the “discour-
aged people” of the world the
hopes and ideals of freedom upon
which this nation was created. And
we must “give more than lip ser-
vice to these principles” ourselves.
Graves Are Decorated
At 11 a.m. (EDT), a few hours
before Marshall spoke, a wreath
from President Truman was placed
at the tomb of the Unknown Sol-
dier. In every U. S. military ceme-
tery throughout the world, a flag
was placed at each grave.
The nation’s military leaders
called for increased efforts to win
a lasting peace.
There were services at Tokyo,
Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Lon-
don, Paris and other foreign cities.
On the tiny Pacific island of Kwa-
Three TSC Students Aid
Hunt for Spanish Gold
Three Tarleton State College
students have heeded the lure of
the lost Spanish gold, and will par-
ticipate in a treasure hunt near
Goldthwaite. They will be aiding
two Del Rio men, J. W. Fisher
and J. R. Latham, in the search,
and will use scientific instruments
and methods in the search for the
gold that has eluded treasure
hunters since 1901.
The TSC students are Charlie
Harris of San Antonio, Randy
Evans of Texas City, and Bill Dosi-
Revolutionary World, TSC
Grads Told by Dr. Sadler
"We are living in a revolution-
ary world and any leader who
ignores that fundamental fact ia
dealing in irrelevancies,” Dr. M. E.
Sadler told 76 Tarleton State Col-
lege graduates Monday night.
The TCU president lumped
Fascism state Socialism and Com-
munism all in one tfroup as poli-
tical ideologies based on suppres-
sion of the freedom of the individ-
ual.
“Democracy, with its emphasis
on the inalienable rights of man,
has a powerful appeal to man
wherever it is understood — in
China, in Russia or in India,” he
declared. For aid in understanding
American Democracy Dr. Sadlev
recommended reading "The Rights
of Man” and “Common Sense,
He praised the salutatory and
valedictory addresses: Nancy How-
ell’s “What a College Student is
Really Like” and Ronald Stephens’
"A More Liberal Education — A
Better Men.” ,,
Ten Top Graduates
Jack Serpas, senior clast presi-
dent, introduced the top ten grad-
uates. Besides Ronald and Nancy,
these included Valene Sponberg,
Prosper Walker, Gordon Smith,
Luther E. Heizer, James D. Pow-
ers, Ennis Joiner, Etta Mae Box
and Eioise Willingham.
Serpas also presented this year's
senior class gift—$106.00 to be
used to help purchase a television
set for the neiq lounge in the girls'
dormitory.
Scholarship Awards
Betty Jo Lockhart of Clifton
was awarded the Uta Davis
Scholarship which is proMnted an-
nually to the outstanding junior
«M.
Kenneth ' Cottle of Brady and
Virginia Seastedt of Stephenville
received the annual William E.
Dyess Scholarship Awards.
Cottle was also named cadet
colonel for next year, succeeding
■■■“* . ivs
enter West Point in the fall.
Prosper Walker of Moran who will
President E. J. Howell read a
letter from Major General A. D.
Bruce, deputy commander of the
Fourth Army, announcing that the
Tarleton Cadet Corps had received
a satisfactory rating on its re-
cent annual federal inspection.
General Bruce pointed out that
only two ratings are given: “Sat-
isfactory” and "Unsatisfactory.”
But he added that Tarleton was
outstanding in many respects and
he went on to cite specific cases
which he noted in the report of
the inspecting team.
Other Awards
For his work wtih the Wain-
wright Rifles, Capt. Carlyle P.
Woelfer was awarded a trophy by
Cadet Lt. Col. Victor Moore, bat-
talion commander.
Major George Ganer received a
trophy from the cadet corps for
his work this year. Cadet Colonel
Walker made the presentation.
Sammie Powers sank “The Star”
by Rogers, and “Romance” by
Romberg.
Gilchrist Presents Diplomas
Gibb Gilchrist, chancellor of the
Texas A.AM. College System, pre-
sented the diplomas, shaking hands
with each graduate.
Tarleton’s Symphonic Band, di-
rected by Randolph Foster, play-
ed the processional “Military
March” by King; and the recess-
ional, "Marche Hersique” by Saint
Saens.
Two of the graduates, Fred
Smith and L. C. Shufficld, were
from the academy division.
er of Waco. Earl Fisher and h
son, of Muliin, will help.
According to the legend, tl
Spaniards left approximately $13,-
000,000 worth of silver and $1,500,-
000 in gold in the San Saba, or
Bowie, mine in 1762 when they
were forced to return to Mexico
after an Indian uprising.
From Body of Bowie
The prospectors will sink a shaft
at Dhy Pond, on the W. P. McCul-
lough Ranch three miles northeast
of Goldthaite. Dry Pond was spot-
ted in 1901 as the site of the treas-
ure when a foreigner visited Muliin
with a map said to have been taken
by a Mexican off the body of Janies
Bowie after he fell at the Alamo.
The foreigner searched for a
copper spike driven into one of
three oak trees.' Later, Dr. Jim
Kirkpatrick of Muliin found a cop-
per spike at Muliin after one of
the trees had been cut down. Two
copper pities with legible engrav-
ings, a hand hammered copper box
containing a crucifix, a set of
pears and a rosary were found near
the two remaining trees.
Old tunnels were found at Dry
Pond in 1985 by D. W. Stephens of
San Saba and T. H. Oglesby of
Eastland.
The contract between McCul-
lough, owner of the land, and the
treasure hunters calls for one-
third to the owner and two-thirds
to the finders.
McCullough has promised to
build a $200,000 hospital for Mills
county if the gold ia found, and
has promised nearly every woman
in Goldthwaite a fur coat.
jalein 600 miles west of the inter-
national dateline, the Navy began
its ceremonies at 8 a.m. A 21-gun
salute was fired and the flag was
lowered to half staff.
President Truman did not at-
tend the Arlington services. His
wreath was placed on the tomb by
his naval aide, Capt. Adam Eisen-
hauer.
Like millions of other Ameri-
cans, tffc president was holidaying.
He was cruising down the Potomac
on the presidential yacht Williams-
burg.
Marshall’s speech highlighted
the five-hour Arlington services.
He conceded the United Nations
is not perfect. But he said it is a
forum where “words can be used
instead of bullets,” and voiced
confidence that truth eventually
will prevail over propaganda.
He also assured an estimated
audience of some 8,000 persons
that “we have taken the offensive”
against Communism.
Stassen Disagrees
A thousand miles away at Car-
bondale. 111., Harold E. Stassen
disagreed. He told a crowd of 30,-
000 persons the United States is
still operating with a "negative,
defensive,” policy. Stassen said the
country is in greater danger of in-
vasion than at any time since 1812.
lie proposed a three-point “of-
fensive” against Communism: (1)
tighten up domestic defenses
against subversion and espionage;
(2) embark on an “affirmative”
program in Asia; and (3) step up
efforts to penetrate the Iron Cur-
tain with “information.”
Servicemen and veterans parad-
ed in half a dozen big cities and
many smaller ones. There were
parades at Chicago, St. Louis,
Minneapolis, Denver, Wichita, New
York and Brooklyn.
At Chicago's Oakwood Ceme-
tery, Senate Democratic leader
Scott W. Lucas defended the ad-
ministration's wiif-the-pcace ef-
forts.
“We are spending 71 cents out of
every tax dollar to meet the cost
of past wars and avert a possible
third world war,” he said, adding
that any future war would be “in-
finitely more staggering in cost.”
LATE
WIRE
FLASHES
By UNITED PRESS
HAWAIIAN QUAKE
HILO, Hawaii, May 30 (UP)—
The most severe earthquake felt
here in years shook the entire is-
land of Hawaii at midaftemoon
yesterday. It shattered the seismo-
graph qt Kona Laboratory and
dismantled instruments in the
Hawaii Volcano Observatory. No
damage was reported.
The fourth man fled. He started
toward the British sector, but
changed course and disappeared
down an alley in the Russian sec-
tor.
Climaxes Day of Friction
The gun battle climaxed* a day
of friction between tho Russians
and Western officials.
Earlier, the Russians had forced
an American police patrol to leave
an international highway, and had
confiscated four "canal barges in
what amounted to a partial “water
blockade” of West Berlin.
The new outbreak of “nuisance
restrictions” on tt&xeLjto and from
this beleaguered city came as
American and German ieaders
warned West Berliners to expect
new Red propaganda attacks soon.
The American patrol, a military
police detachment posted to pre-
vent interference with traffic on
the Berlin superhighway during
| the week-end “youth rally” here,
| was arrested and taken to a Rus-
sian headquarters at Babelsberg,
five miles southwest of Western
Berlin.
The lieutenant commanding the
two-man patrol was offered his
choice of returning to Berlin or
remaining in custody. He returned
to Berlin.
Witnesses said that Col. Boris
Kalinin, Russian chief of staff in
Berlin, personally directed the re-
moval of the highway patrol.
Patrol Is Removed
The patrol had been stationed in
Soviet territory about 10 milet
(Continued on page 6)
STRIKE IN BELGIUM
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 30
(UP) — Nearly 10(1,000 textile
workers went on strike in the
Flemish part of Belgium today for
an 8 per cent wage increase.
TAX ROLLS BURNED
SAN PIETRO, Italy, May 30
—The tax roils and registers of
San Pietro were ashes today. An-
gry housewives burned them yes-
terday to protest a government
decree lifting the exemption they
had enjoyed from taxes because
of the heavy, damage the village
suffered during fighting around
nearby Cassino in World War II.
( RASH INJURIES FATAL
AMARILLO, May 30 (UP) —
Mrs. Vern Ferguson, 47-year-old
woman from Lefors died early to-
day of injuries received last Fri-
day in a two-car collision which
killed three other persons. The
other victims were her husband,
47, her 18-year-oid son, and Harry
Martin of Amarillo. They were
buried yesterday.
Mass X-Ray Meet
Here Wednesday
Members of social and civic orga-
nizations will meet at the chamber
of commerce offices at 2 p. m. Wed-
nesday, May 31, to discuss plans
for a mass X-ray to be held in
Erath county in the near future.
Philip W. Gauss, of the State
Health Department, will be pres-
ent.
The mass X-ray, which has been
done successfully throughout the
state, is a valuable aid toward de-
tecting tuberculosis.
Hedrick Building Is
Leased for Six Years
opening of a Piggly Wiggly Food
Store. However, the store will be
P-TA Bi-County
Council Meets
The Ermth-Comanche Bi-County
Council of the Parent-Teachers As-
sociation met at 2 p.~m. Tuesday,
May 30, in the chamber of com-
merce offices in Stephenville.
Mrs. A. C. Robbins of Stephen-
ville is president of the council.
A lease contract^ on a 61x90 foot
building on North 'Belknap Street
near the,qjly hall was closed Mon-
day between J. P. Hedrick, owner,
and Hi Si Osborne of Denton.
Terms of the contract were not an-
nounced by it is known to have a
6-year tenure.
Workmen will start immediately
on installing fixtures, air condi-
tioning and other equipment for the
ig of a Piggly \\
He
operated under the trade name of
Osborne Fbod Market, lt will con-
form in design and general ar-
rangement with other stores own-
ed by Osborne at Denton and Cle-
burne.
Successful Operators
The Osborne Company comes to
Stephenville with strong recom-
mendations as successful food store
operators. Aside from groceries the
store will feature fruits, vegetables
and a super market.
Plans of the company are to have
the store ready for opening by
July 1. Osborne, who was in tbe
V
city Monday closing the contract,
expects to issue a statement con-
cerning opening plans later.
Spangler Named
Member State
Committee
A. J. Spangler, director division
of agriculture at Tarleton State
College, has been appointed as a
member of the Texas Pasture Im-
provement Committee.
Appointed by Governor Shivers,
who issued a proclamation, Spang-
ler will take part in the 16-year
program. There arc 10 crop report-
ing districts in Texas, and this dis-
trict corresponds with that of the
West Cross Timbers district.
Spangler will appoint a vice-
chairman and an alternate in the
district. *
Two hundred persons attended a
dinner in Austin, given by Gover-
nor Shivers, at which time the ap-
pointeea were announced.
JAP COMMIES
IN NEAR-RIOT
TOYKO, May 30 (UP)—Japan-
ese Communists jostled three
American Army men and stoned
one of them during a leftist dem-
onstration in the Imperial Plaza
today. The assailants escaped in
the crowd hut six Japanese were
arrested later by American mili-
tary policemen.
Communists and affiliated left-
ists planned a demonstration of
100.000 workers in the great square
at 9 a.m. coincident with an Amer-
ican Army Memorial Day cere-
mony.
Japanese police who said they
were acting under orders of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters
forced postponement of the dem-
onstration until the American cere-
mony had been held.
When the square was thrown
open sponsors of the demonstration
led about 5,000 persons into it
under the eyes of Japanese police
and American military police and
Criminal Investigation Division.
More demonstrators arrived later,
but far fewer than the boasted
100,000.
Jap Takes Notes
While Communist member of
Parliament Michio Watanabc was
speaking demonstrators saw a
Japanese plainclothes man taking
notes. They snatched the notes. An
American CID captain and two en-
listed men recovered the notes.
They told the demonstrators the
plainclothes man was their inter-
preter.
A Japanese policeman started to
arrest a demonstrator who, he
said, criticized the occupation while
he was being questioned. Demon-
strators milled around the three
Americans and the Japanese, shov-
ing them around. One of the en-
listed men was struck on the head
by a stone and the captain’s cap
was knocked off.
ITiotographer Seized
The demonstrators seized a Jap-
anese news photographer who
pped pictures of the scuffle and
destroyed his films. They returned
the camera.
Japanese police, armed with pis-
tols, and American military police
arrived as reinforcements but the
disturbance was over.
Angry young Communists group-
ed at the edge of the crowd. They
said that if more military police-
men arrived and tried to break up
the rally they would lock arms and
hold them back.____
As the demonstration proceeded
Japanese Communist party leader
Sanzo Nosaka made the principal
speech. He denounced the Ameri-
can Army and the possibility that
Communism might be outlawed in
Japan. Evidently referring to Mac-
Arthur’s statement of May $ in-
viting the Japanese government to
outlaw Communism, Noaaka said:
“If the Japanese Communist
party is outlawed it wili mean the
end of Japan’s independence. But
so long as one Communist la left, it
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Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 192, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 30, 1950, newspaper, May 30, 1950; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1133500/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.