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THE COTULLA RECORD
Baltimore School,
i»obe Ruth's Home,
Closed to Juveniles
BALTIMORE, Md.—For 84 years
—since 1868—St. M iry’s Industrial
tchool in Baltimore carried on the
york ot turning many juvenile del-
inquents into solid citizens. Now
t has closed its doors.
Among its products were two fa-
nous men—the late Babe Ruth and
M Jolson.
Babe Ruth entered the school
when he wa3 seven because his
lather, a saloon keeper, thought his
environment around his place
wasn’t too good. Young Ruth was
listed as an incorrigible, but in later
years you could never get the monks
at the school to agree that he was.
He stayed there until he was 18.
The school must have made an im-
pression on the future home run
king, father Albert, who knew him
at the school, 3aid Ruth once told
him, when he was at the height of
his glory: “We’re all in life to do
lood. And I hope that when I die
I will have lived so I can help the
boys of America to live straighter
and cleaner lives."
And there's Jolson. He visited
the school last September for the
first time in about 50 years.
“That's the yard where I used to
play,’’ the singer and actor said.
“When was that? About the time of
the Spanish-American war.
“I was a bad boy then, but not
too bad. I had run away from home.
I gave my brother's name, because
he w* supposed to be the black
sheep of the family. After a few
months my parents came from
Washington and took me home."
President's Fancy Tie
Puzzles Newspapermen
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Two St. Louis
newspapermen were trying to
decide just what pattern ap-
peared on one of President Tru-
man's ties.
“What’s wrong, boys?" the
President asked.
They told him.
Mr. Truman looked down at the
design as if seeing the tie for the
first time, and said: “I don’t
know what it is—swan3 or some-
thing, I guess.
Now the newspapermen are
wondering if Mrs. Truman picks
the President’s ties for him.
Washington—A home-front mobli-
zation bill has been passed by the
House. The bill gives the President
authority to enact price, wage, and
rations controls. The vote was .'583 to
112. Your congressman voted for it.
| But, before this bill passed, the
House debated several approaches to
| the problem. Two weeks of debate
■ passed before this bill was approved.
It now appears that if purchasers
will remain calm and if they will not
| create artificial temporary shortages
by hoarding, controls to stop specula-
j tors wiil be sufficient unress the mili-
1 tary operations extend beyond Ko-
| rea. in this bill the President has
been given far-reaching powers. They
| evidently, will not be put into effect
I unless conditions warrant them.
Situation Today
J We must remember, however, there
are some differences between the ec-
onomic and military situation today
I and that of the past war.
1. On the food front, the Depart-
; ment of Agriculture has mountains
j of surplus food supplies stored. In
j view of this, it’s not only shameful,
j but foolish to hoard,
j 2. During the last war we had
over 13 million men and women in
uniform. This time it is estimated
j we will have about 2 1-2 million.
3. We have built up stockpiles of
strategic materials which we did not
have in the last war.
4. Our military needs now planned
call for somewhere between 8 to l->
of what the nation produces. During
World War II over 1-3 of our nit-
ion’s output went to maintain our
military forces.
5. For those who are worried a-
bout new cars and appliances being
short because of the military s U3e
of steel, reports show only about 6
percent of our steel production will
go for that purpose.
To me, this all adds up to the fact
TEXAM
mat the President will not have to
Use all of the power to control the
economy of this country that has
be-n given him in this bill as long
as we purchase sanely and the war
does not extend beyond Korea's bor-
ders.
Communism
Your congressman and other men-
b-rs of the House last week voted
over-whelmingly for contempt cita
tions to be issued against witnesses
before the Un-American Activities
Committee who refused to
questions including
ing whether or
munists.
Cotton
lowed under the provisions of the bill. . pears that the difficulty stems largely
two nations are involved, sometimes
conflicting and always handicapped
by language difficulties and by dif-
ferences in the laws of the two coun-
tries. I have been disappointed that
these obstacles have not been over-
come more rapidly. But I am hope-
I do not believe quotas should be re-
duced at a time when we are stock-
piling iron, manganese, tin. copper
and yet have this country facing a
rapidly dwindling government stock-
pile of cotton—which is just as es-
sential and which has dropped from
from the fact that the interests of
6 million from Jan. 1, 1950, to less
than 3 million bales today—and is
continuing to rapidly drop.
Falcon Dam
answer
I, just as you, have become increas-
the $04-one ask- j ingiy concerned over the delay and
not they were com- | initiation of the construction of Fal-
con dam. As your representative I
. have continued to press for its
The House has passed a bill which j speedy construction particularly in my
cuts cotton quotas for 1951 for our | field of legislation
district below the 1950 allocation.
\our congressman voted against this
bill. Not only do I feel the appor-
tionment of the quotas is grossly un-
fair, but, in addition, the overall ac-
reage of the nation should be in-
ci -.-ed substantially beyond that al-
and appropria-
tions. In response to questions to
the government agencies about when
construction would start. I have re-
ceived statements from them for the
past year and a half which have not
proven to be over-optimistic. It ap-
at an early date. The IBWC has as-
sured me that everything is being
done to prosecute this work with the
utmost diligence so that actual con-
struction can be initiated at the ear-
liest possible date and concluded as
soon as possible.
I will continue to do everything I
can to assist insofar as I can here
within the scope of my duties. Your
congressman helped pass another bill
last week for Falcon Dam. This in-
cludes enabling legislation which was
not necessary for the letting of the
contract on the dam but will assist
in the ultimate completion of the
project.
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74-Year-Old Marine
Takes Rifle Firing Test
QUANTICO, Va.—Usually it’s the
old salts of the Marine Corps who
teach young leathernecks how to
shoot with the startling accuracy
for which the Marines are noted,
but that situation was reversed re-
cently when 74-year-old Master
Sergeant Harry D. Bartley, of
Philadelphia, reported to the rifle
range along with many younger
men to fire the carbine for annual
re-qualification. His coach was a
20-year-old private.
Bartley, whose uniform sleeve is
covered with bright red hash-
marks representing 42 years of
service, could have stopped firing
the weapons courses when he was
35, but he chose to fire again thb
year. He has more straight en-
listed time in the military service
than any member of the Marine
Corps.
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Cleveland Man Invented
Traffic Light 36 Years Ago
CLEVELAND, O.—August 5 will
be the 36th birthday anniversary
of the traffic light—that instrument
that has given many Americans
high blood pressure.
According to the Cleveland Auto-
mobile Club, on that day James B.
Hoge hung up the first traffic light
at a now bustling east-side inter-
section in Cleveland.
Hoge’s first signal was hand op-
erated by a policeman stationed
at the corner, who would ring a
bell and turn the light on whenever
the nearby firehouse received a
call.
The signal had full approval of
the chamber of commerce and a
few months later a second set was
installed. However, Hoge’s success
was cut short when the lights were
declared unnecessary and imprac-
tical.
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Retired Officer Says
Stalin Had Heart Attack
SALEM, Mass —Col. Roland W.
Estey, retired, a former office of
strategic services officer, has re-
ported that Premier Stalin suf-
fered a heart attack in June while
on a plana flight.
The former officer said he re-
ceived the news in a letter from
Europe and that the information
had been turned over to our intelli-
gence agency.
According to Estey, Stalin was en-
route for a conference in the town
of Chita, about 100 miles north of
the Chinese border.
The attack apparently was of
such a nature. Estey said, that it
seemed wise to return him to Mos-
cow and permit his impersonator
to,proceed on the trip.
The letter also contained this
message, Estey said: "Watch For-
mosa or Chosen before the firs* cf
July." Chosen is another name for
Korea.
Estey said his friend had the n
formation six days before the ag-
gression, leading to the belief the
Communists in North Korea
jumred the gun.
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The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1950, newspaper, August 18, 1950; Cotulla, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1161198/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alexander Memorial Library.