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Ginesbille Hailm RRegister
57TH YEAR
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 3, 1947
NUMBER 109
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caused the weather in the wake
of the cold front to clear rapidly.
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shotgun and the full charge of
the 12-gauge shell entered Mrs.
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2,847
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in a Jewish section
9,788,203.55
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1944 235,503.00
1943 130,587.45
1942 127,853.00
BANK DEPOSITS
1946 $10,940,895.03
1945 11,425,645.00
HOUSTON, Jan. 3 (A — Con-
struction of a 33,000,000 chemical
plant at Winnie, Texas, for the
production of unsaturated hydro-
carbon chemicals, including ben-
zine and styrene, in the immedi-
to accom-
” declared
CO-ED MISSING—Prof, E. E.
Kimberly of Ohio State univer-
sity reported to
daughter, Mary
LAREDO, Jan 3() — The
eight-year-old daughter, Emma,
of Mr. and Mrs Manuel Alvarado
died here yesterday of burns suf-
fered Tuesday afternoon at her
home.
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BUILDING
AUSTIN, Jan. 3 (P) — Fewer
than half the incoming members
of the legislature have found a
place to live here during the 50th
regular session which starts less
than two weeks hence.
927
909
944
450
there, but. no casualties were re-
ported.
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f° Withitassonis reported nine de-
Temperatures: High yesterday.
35; low last night, 7; noon today.
15; high for the* year. 33: low
/ 1 | for the year. 7;
/ 1 barometric pres-
_L LV3 __, sure, 30.62
ply; one truck of choice around
800-pound yearlings $25.50; few
medium cows 312 to $14; bulls
1 WASHINGTON, Jan 3. .(A——
Rep. Pace (D-Ga.) said today he
will ask the new congress to pay >
to all World War II veterans a
bonus of 34 a day for home serv-
ice and 35 for every day spent
overseas.
FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH, Jan. 3 (P)—
Cattle, 800; calves, 300; trade very
Miss Lusk said the man repre-
sented himself as an insurance
degrees was recorded.
Friday dawned clear and
cold, however, fulfilling the
predictions of the weatherman.
Late last night Lubbock said
nades and automatic wea
Tel Aviv was plunged into c
Victim of Camera
Gun Shooting Is
Reported Improved
Bizarre New Year’s Eve
Incident Nearly Fatal;
Former Husband Sought
NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (A_ Mrs.
Olga Rocco, 28, victim of a bi-
zarre New Year’s eve shotgun
shooting by a young woman who
thought she was using a camou-
flaged X-ray camera to take a
picture, was reported improving
today at Roosevelt hospital.
Hospital authorities said her
name had been removed from the
critical list after amputation of
her left leg yesterday, and that
her condition was satisfactory.
1946 $569,7
1945 141,773.99
1945 3,382
1944 3,916
1943 2,902
1942 2,650
GAS METERS
scheduled to be resumed in Lon-
don on Jan. 21).
Official and unofficial reports
gave this picture of the blows
struck by the underground:
At Tiberias, on the Sea of Gal-
lilee 75 miles northeast of Jeru-
salem, the attackers used two
home-made flame throwers in an
assault on a military car park,
but were beaten off.
shooting, was held in $10,000 bail
as a material witness in the case.
Immediately after the shooting,
Miss Lusk told police that a man,
whom she later identified from a
picture as the victim’s former
_______newly ap-
ad commissioner of correc-
•n He said that Minutolo, while
serving 15-years on Alcatraz was
kept in solitary confinement’as an
New Orleans is the second larg-
est seaport in the United States.
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gre- Land, up to now boycotted by the
and Jews and Palestine Arabs, are
urday fair,
afternoon.
CANYON, Jan. 3 (P) — Two
Inglewood, Calif., residents, Marie
White, 17, and Larry Doyle White,
age four months, were killed yes-
terday when the car in which
they were riding collided with a
New Mexico transportation com-
pany bus four miles north of here.
MARCH FIELD, Calif., Jan 3
(P)—Gen. Salvador Cesar Obino,
thief of staff of Brazil's armed
forces, is expected to arrive at
Randolph Field, Texas, tomorrow
en route home after a nationwide
aerial tour of military installa-
tions that began last November
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (P—
The comptroller of the currency
today issued a call for a state-
ment of the condition of all
national banks at the close of
business Tuesday, Dec. 31.
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32,
Brownsville
ing her on a trolly loading plat-
form.
Mrs. Margaret Dyer, the girl's
mother, said her daughter didn’t
discover her loss until she arrived
home.
old divorced man. Police have
launched a nation-wide seareh
for Robert H. Hemming, mi—ing
during a holiday visit to his
former home in Columbus, O.
(AP Wirephoto).
To Speak
In Person
Filibusters Over Bilbo
Seen'as Possible Delay
used in Jerusalem, where a police
patrol car was attacked with fire,
but without casualties. At Hedera
an attempt was made to blast the
army fire station. Only slight
damage resulted, but an Arab
constable was wounded.
Jan. 3 (A)—Cosmo, a hitchhiking little penguin, has adopted
submarine Senhet.
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customers.
Ji-m ..mi
‘irginia, 26, a
—1 win tt y senior disappeared
New Year's day with a 42-year-
intractable prisoner, and that
while being brought here escaped
from two defectives and leaped
through the window of a moving
train passing through Indiana but
was later captured.
Minutolo was awaiting trial on
10-year-old charges of attempted
robbery.
The break was discovered when
the prisoner population was lined
up in preparation for the after-
noon exercise period and Aiello
was found missing. An inspection
showed the eight others also gone.
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2,840
2,627
METERS
3,450
3,250
3,175
3,050
2,848
ANNOUNCE CHARGES AGAINST BILBO—Senator Bourke
K. Hickenlooper ‘(R-Iowa), (left), and Senator Styles Bridges
(R-NH)., minority members of the special campaign investigating
committee, tell newbmen in Washington that they will file a
report with the senate charging Senator Theodore G. Bilbo (D-
Miss) with at least three federal statute violations. (AP Wirephoto).
Lt W. S. DeLany Tells Story of
Cosmo, the Hitchhiking Penguin
By ALTON L. BLAKESLLEE !
ABOARD THE U. S. S. MT. OLYMPUS IN THE ICE PACK,
-Gainesville’s Progress-
PERMITS ELECTRIC METERS
732.00 1946 3,589
This morning found transporta-
tion disrupted,
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Blasted by winds directly out
of the north, the mercury in
to seven
night, the
when two de
pilesoxttle
Albert O. Will
I NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (P)—The
city’s 17,000 police were ordered
today to be ready to “shoot to
kill" in the manhunt for nine fel-
ons, one a confessed killer and
another a former Alcatraz inmate,
who staged a daylight escape
from ancient Raymond streetsjail
in Brooklyn. . 1 j
By the number of men deliv-
ered, the break was the largest
in the city’s history. But it was
astonishingly quiet and involved
no violence.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
1946 1,431
1 946 Sun Pipe Line Co.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3 (P)—
John Glenn (Jack) Pew, oilfield
ness during the attack there, ap-
parently because electric wires
were cut. Ten persons were in-
jured in Tel Aviv and three in loads of hea
Citrus.
Heavy firing in the center of
Jerusalem followed the attack
Wainwright to Pay
Reward for Saber
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Jan. 3
(A)—A $100 reward will be paid
oy General Jonathan M. Wain-
wright, Fourth Army comman-
der, to the finder of his prized
West Point saber, which the gen-
eral lost during the retreat from
Bataan early in the war, the gen-
eral said today.
The saber, found this week by
U. S. army agents on Luzon, was
given to the general by his moth-
er when he graduated from West
Point in 1906.
“I’m happy it didn’t become a
permanent Japanese souvenir,”
Wainwright said.
WILL MAKE PLEA — Mrs-
Blanche Meiers (above) of Oak-
land, Calif., is enroute to Jackson,
Miss., to plead with the governor
to spare the lives of two 14-year-
old boys sentenced to death in
that state. (AP Wirephoto).
MIDLAND, Jan. 3 (P) — A
three-year-old Negro girl, Betty
Jo Love, burned to death yester-
day when fire destroyed her
home here.
20, Big Spring 16, Wink ’ 18,
Guadalupe Pass 11, Fort Worth
ivy calves and light
yearlings $20.75 to $21.25; com-
mon and medium butcher calves
$11 to $16.
Hogs, 300; butchers mostly 50
cents higher; sows 50 cents to $1
Suffers Exposure
in Stalled Auto
BAIRD, Texas, Jan. 3 (P)—Ma-
rion M. Giarder, 21, of Pecos, Tex-
as, was in the hospital here today
suffering from the effects of more
than 15 hours exposure to bitter
cold after his car stalled during
a snowstorm Wednesday night.
Hospital attendants fear Gard-
ner might develop pneumonia.
The yoUth was rescued shortly
after noon yesterday when High-
way Patrol Sgt. Royal Kelley of
Abilene discovered his car on
state highway 36 about 15 miles
southwest of here.
Kelley took Gardner to Cross
Plains, Texas, where he was
given food and first aid before
being transferred to the hospital
here.
gang—would draw strong reac-
counter-measures tion from the British in the form
were predicted today in the wake of comb out*, curfews and other
measures in an effort to find the
persons responsible.
Mercury
Topples to
7 Degrees
Forecaster* Predicting
‘Colder Friday’ as Sky
Cleared by Norther
By The Associated Press
A rip-roaring new cold front hit
Texas last night sending ther-
mometer* tumbling into the cold-
est weather of the season.
Seasonal records toppled right
and left as the frigid air swept
into th* Panhandle and North-
west Texas late yesterday after-
noon at 35-mile-an-hour speed.
Forecasters hurriedly revised
predictions from “terrific snow-
$9.50 to $14; good and choice
Stern British
Miles F. McDonnell said he be-
lieves the break was master-
minded by Anthony Aiello, 36,
who recently pleaded guilty to
murder in the second degree, and
Alfred Minutolo, 34, the former
(A British government source attacked by persons using gre-
-____________________ said at the same time that Pales- nadee end eitematin wreanone
was slain and a score or more tine was facing martial law or a
persons wounded. . small-scale war, adding that one
It was one of the biggest simul- more incident there “might blow
taneous operations ever launched off the lid.” Conferences on the
in the Holy Land by the under- future of the strife-torn Holy
ground, which used mines,
nades, automatic weapons
home-made flame throwers, in
at least 12 separate attacks in
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Tiberias,
Hedera and Kiryat Haim, thus
ending a month-long period of
relative peace in Palestine.
Political observers predicted
the attacks— which some sources
Eisenhower Says
He Will Not Run
For Presidency
Mention of Hi* Name in
That Capacity Not Good
For Army, He Claim*
MIAMI, Fla., Jarf. 3 (P)—Gen-
eral of the Armies Dwight D. Ei-
senhower today ruled himself out
as a presidential candidate and
declared that mention of his name
in that capacity “is not good for
the great organization with which
I am associated.”
Eisenhower, the army’s chief of
staff, made it plain that he was
thinking as a soldier of the na-
tion’s future security to prevent
the United States from falling
victim to some possible future
"super-blitz.”
“From the beginning of the
war, when my name has been
mentioned in connection with a
possible future political career for
me, I have instantly refused to
consider such a contingency,"
said the general during an inter-
view at an inspection of the
army’s Pratt General hospital in
suburban Coral Gables.
“I have not changed my mind,”
he said grimly.
"The army is definitely non-
partisan and national in charac-
ter, and any talk that tends to
cloud the soundness of that fea-
ture is not to the best interest
of he United States,” he added.
J. G. Pew to Head
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President
MANILA, Jan. 3 OR—The 3.000
ton British freighter Empire Dirk
sent a distress message today
from a position approximately
150 miles northwest of Lingayen
gulf in the China sea.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (P_
You think YOU’RE tired of radio
commercials- The Federal Trade
commission said in its annual re-
port today its job in 1946 included
reading an average of 4,547 pages
of radio script each working day.
21, Dallas 25, Austin 32, San An-
tonio 32, Corpus Christi 41,
Brownsville 43, Galveston 41.
Beaumont 38, Houston 37, and El
were premicted today in me waxe
of widespread attacks by the
Jewish underground last night on
British military installations, in
which at least one British offi
and communications lines down
in many areas.
Airlines hoped to resume many
grounded flights if the new front
cleared away snow, sleet and fog.
Bus schedules were cancelled or
running late in many sections.
Hillsboro public schools and
junior college closed yesterday.
Bonham and Austin public
schools were closed. The Uni-
versity of Texas resumed classes
but students unable to return be-
cause of travel hazards were ex-
cused. In Dallas, 12,000 students
were absent from public schools
yesterday.
Two Earth Shocks
Again Rock Tokyo
TOKYO. Jan. 3 OR—Two earth
shocks today rocked Tokyo, still
jittery from southwestern Japan’s
recent earthquake and tidal wave,
but meteorologists said they were
too light to cause damage.
Resident were startled, but not
alarmed, as windows rattled and
chandeliers shook. Two separate
shocks of about five seconds du-
ration each were felt. Some Japa-
nese reported hearing a rumble.
U. S. army and Japanese ex-
perts placed the epicenter in the
sea about 50 miles southeast of
Chosi in Chiba peninsula, which
is about 50 miles east of Tokyo.
That means the temblors did
not affect battered Shikoku and
adjacent areas, more than .300
miles southwest of Tokyo, where
1,289 were killed by the Dec. 21
tragedy.
The Ruhr coalfields normally
account for three-fourths of Ger-
many’s coal supply.
ate future was announced
Glenn H. McCarthy, pit-
of the McCarthy Chemicai
pany.
said presumably were 1M
cooperatively by Irgun
Leumi and the so-called
DALLAS, Jan. 3 (A)—Over-
head electrical distribution fa-
cilities, valued at approximate-
ly $85,000, at Camp Howze,
Gainesville, Texas, will be of-
fered January 6 for a 15-day
period.
WACO, Jan. 3 (P)—Funeral for
O B Perot, 54. oil man, rancher,
and insurance man. will be held
here this afternoon.
the thermometer was falling two _ _
degrees an hour. The 8:30 p. m. Rocco’s left hip.
reading was nine degrees, lowest
The sub’s crew, delighted with his antics, has made him mascot.
Cosmo zoomed aboard the sub Tuesday morning as the craft
proceeded through ice floes with other ships in the Antarctic ex-
pedition. Since then he has been enjoying a free ride at U. S. navy
expense.
‛l‛he 18-inch tall penguin refuses tidbits offered him by the
crew, preferring to dive overboard and feast ph shrimp. Unable
to fly, he boards the sub with a hop out of the water.
Lt. W. S. DeLany, Jr., Gainesville, Texas, relaying the Cosmo
saga to the Mt Olympus, said the penguin abadnoned ship after
receiving a snootful of diesel smoke but soon returned.
The expedition was halted in the Ross sea today by a tighten-
ing circle of ice.
Warden Thomas McDonnell at-
tributed the escape to an inade-
quate number of guards and to
che prison’s deterioration.
“The jail,” he said, “is over
100 years eld. It* ban are rot-
ten, its windows are rotten.”
operator in Texas, Louisiana’ and
Oklahoma for 25 years, has been
named by the Sun Oil company’
board of directors as president
of the Sun Pipe Line company
(Texas).
At the same time Pew was
elected vice president in charge
of production of the Sun Oil
company. He succeeds his late
lather,. J. Edgar Pew.
Pew has been a Sun director
and assistant to the vice president
in charge of production since
1941. After leaving college he
joined the company as a ware-
houseman and timekeeper at
Wortham, Texas, and later held a
variety of positions in the land
and production department. His
home is in Dallas.
“ East Texas:
J Fair in north.
) partly cloudy
I in south this
' afternoon. Cold-
: er tonight with
Sheep, 500; ewes strong; slaugh-
ter lamb* steady; medil
good shorn lambs with No. 2 pelts
$16; medium grade ewes $7.50.
POSTAL RECEIPTS
1946 $ 71,782.33
1945 180,806.77
1944 192,979.34
1943 161,722.35
1942 66,611.77
investigator on the trail of a jew-
greet, lowest since Jan. 19, 1943, el thief who carried stolen gems
Amarillo and Pampa quoted 10 under her clothing and he needed
degrees, Abilene 19, San. Angelo a picture for evidence.
Mrs. Rocco, 28, has accused her
former husband of engineering
the shooting plot
Freezing temperatures were
expected to extend into the Rio
Grande valley where up to now
there has been no crop damage
from 35 degree weather.
Heavy snows fell again yester-
day in the Panhanadle and North
Texas. Last night’s whipping
gales piled the snow in high
drifts. Ranchers reported cattle
were not suffering for grazing be-
cause the snow only covered the
grass in the low areas.
Camp Hood Only
Texas Base Not
Declared Surplus
Wartime Installation*,
Including Camp Maxey,
Will Be Abandoned
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (A
Rep. Poage (D-TeX) said today he
has been informed by the army
that all wartime installations of
the army ground forces in Texas,
except Camp Hood, have been
declared surplus and turned over
to the War Assets administration
for disposal.
Poage said the order included
Camp Maxey at Paris and Camp
Swift near Austin. He was un-
able to name other installations
involved.
Poage said he has been assured
that Camp Hood, headquarters
for the Second Armored division,
will be maintained.
War department spokesmen
said later that only Camps Swift
and Maxey are affected by the
new order, all other wartime in-
stallations in Texas except Camp
Hood already having been de-
clared surplus.
The order makes Camp Swift
and Camp Maxey surplus as of
January 31.
Anne M. Bullitt to
Be Married May 31
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (/Pl-
Miss Anne Moen Bullitt, daughter
of William C. Bullitt, former U.
S. ambassador to France and Rus-
sia, will be married here next
May 31 to Nicholas Duke Biddle
of Philadelphia. /
The engagement was announced
last night by Bullitt.
Miss Bullitt, 22, married Staff
Sgt. Casper W. H. Townsend, Jr.,
in February, 1944, but that union
ended in divorce.
storms” to just “colder Friday.” 18-year-old blonde who did the
They said the Arctic blasts
Navy Seaplane on
Antarctic Flight
Reported Overdue
Reconnaissance Flights
Show Hope PBM Might
Have Found Open Water
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (/R—A
PBM mariner seaplane with
eight persons aboard is overdue
on an exploratory flight from the
navy’s Antarctic expedition, the
navy reported today.
The plane took off from the
seaplane tender USS Pine Island
at 4:45 a. m. (CST) Dec. 30.
It was scheduled to return at
2:45 p. m. the same day, but had
sufficient fuel for 11 additional
hours of flight.
The last report from the plane
was received at 6:25 a. m. (CST)
on Dec. 30 at which time it was
about 250 miles south of the Pine
Island.
Previous reconnaissance flights
had reported open water in that
area and the navy expressed hope
the plane had made a safe land-
ing. Search and rescue operations
have been hampered by bad
weather.
Racket Is Broken
With Double Arrest
FT. WORTH, Jan. 3 (PP—A rent
swindle racket forked in at least
five Texas cities was brought to
an end yesterday when postal
authorities announced the arrest
of a man and woman in Ohio.
Postal Inspector H. M. McMil-
lan said the couple operated in
Lubbock, Abilene, Dallas. San
Antonio, and possibly Fort Worth
and Shreveport, La.
McMillan said the two are al-
leged to have placed "for rent”
want ads for houses, accepted
advance rent payments for a
month or a year and then disap-
peared.
He said they gave bogus checks
on out-of-town banks for options
in order to obtain house keys to
show the dwellings to prospective
husband, Alphonse Rocco, en-
gaged her to take a picture of
Mrs. Rocco and supplied a pack-
age which he said contained a
camouflaged "X-ray camera.” In-
stead it concealed a sawed-off
Biddle, a World War II para-
troop captain, is the son of Col.
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr.,
and Mrs. Mary Duke Biddle,
prominent Philadelphians. |
British to Counter Jewish Attacks MafiJeeiA
At Kiryat Haim, in the vicinity
of Haifa, one British officer was
up; pigs steady; good and choice
180-300 pounds $17 to $21; sows
$17.50 to $18; stocker pigs aver-
aging around 70 pounds $15.
fT^rr temperatures 8
miisbBe—• to 16 in north,
ecxept zero to 6
FREEZING End 765
24 in south portion, except 22 to
26 in Rio Grande valley, and 28
to 34 over immediate coast. Sat-
urday fair, not quite so cold
north portions in afternoon. Mod-
erate to occasionally fresh north-
erly winds on the coast diminish-
ing Saturday.
West Texas: Fair and continued
cold this afternoon and tonight,
lowest tonight zero to 6 in Pan-
handle and South Plains, 8 to 12
Upper Pecos valley eastward, and
14 to 24 remainder of nrea. Sat-
Another flame thrower was
Of All-Important Talk
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3
By a party line vote of 244
to 182, Rep. Joe Martin (R-
Mass) formally was elected
speaker of the house today.
Mrs. DeLany, When telephoned the above message at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Culp, 1236 Lindsay, said
it was the first word she had received from her husband since he
had joined the expedition off the coast of Panama several weeks
ago. . • • T ’ i
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Nine Felons Sought by
NY Cops After Break
Brooklyn District Attorney
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3
(AP). — President Truman
completed plans today to de-
liver his state of the union
message to congress in per-
son Monday at 12 noon if the
two houses are organized by
then.
Presidential Secretary Charles
G Ross told reporters the message
will require about 50 minutes
reading time before a join ses-
sion in the house of representa-
tives.
It will be broadcast by televi-
sion as well as by the major ra-
dio networks.
If the senate runs into a fili-
buster over seating of Senator
Bilbo (D-Miss.), Ross said, Mr
Truman will deliver his address
in person later.
The present schedule is for the
president to send congress a sec-
ond message based on a report
from his economic advisory coun-
cil on January 8, and to follow
this on January 10 with a budget
message for the fiscal year start-
ing July 1.
active;prices fully steady; beef
steer* ad yearlings in scant sup-
Professor Fears
Missing Daughter
Doped by Ex-Con
Girl Disappears With
Acquaintance of Week
Who Has Long Record
COLUMBUS, O., ^an 3 (P—
Prof. E E. Kimberly expressed
fear today that his 20-year-old
daughter, missing with a 42-year-
old ex-convict, has been “doped.”
The Ohio State university in-
structor, informed of a report that
the couple appeared at a Cleve-
land residence late yesterday and
Mus Mary Virginia Kimberly
declined to part company with
her notorious companion, re-
marked :
“If that is true, I am con-
vinced that my daughter has
been doped."
Meanwhile, police in Ohio and
neighboring s t a t es intensified
their search for the red-haired
Ohio State senior and Robert H.
Hemming, who disappeared Wed-
nesday afternoon when he called
on a pretext of driving her to a
friend's home.
Hemming, it was reported, met
Miss Kimberly on Christmas. He
had returned, his .family said,
from California when he was
idled by the movie studio strike.
His daughter has lived for the
past 12 years with his father, Rob-
ert N. Hemming.
Hemming's prison record of for-
gery, grand e larceny and auto
uneft sent him to prisons in Cali-
fornia. Washington, Kansas, Tex-
as and Georgia, plus a couple of
Ohio arrests and the list dates
back to 1927, according to the
Ohio State Bureau of Identifica-
ton.
Professor Kimberly described
his daughter as an accomplished
pianist, "sharp - witted, keen-
minded and very self-sufficient”
Jack the Snipper
Shears 8th Victim
‘ , WASHINGTON, Jan. 3(A)--
Washington’s “Jack the Snipper"
sheared his eighth victim last
night and apologized for jostling
her.
Bernice Dyer, 17, a junior at St.
Patrick’s academy, reported she
lost a lock of her brunette hair
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New Republican
Congress Opens,
Senate in Uproar
Individual Income Tax
Cut No. 1 Measure to
Be Offered in House
ized for bump-
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (A)—
The 80th congress — first con-
trolled by Republicans in 15 years
—convened today with the senate
in an uproar over Senator Bilbo
(D-Miss.) and the house ready
for business.
Last minute efforts to compro-
mise the Bilbo controversy failed
when 14 Democratic senators or-
ganized for “extended debate”
against a Republican-led move to
bar the Mississippian from the
chamber.
The No. 1 measure offered in
the house was the Republican
plan to cut individual income
taxes. Instead of the proposed 20
per cent reduction "across the
boards," it provides for a 20 per
cent tax cut of the first $300,000
of income and a 10 5 reduction
on income above that figure.
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Sen. Taylor Blocks
Bilbo Oath-Taking
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (P) .
Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, (D-
Miss) walked up to the bar of the
senate to take his oath for a
third term today and five min-
utes later returned to his seat
without being sworn.
The oath-taking was blocked
by Senator Taylor (D-Idaho) who
opened a fight to oust Bilbo.
Threatened with a filibuster by
Southern Democrats, the senate
became involved in a parliamen-
tary tangle immediately after the
convening of the new Republi-
can-controlled congress.
Bilbo got as far as the senate
rostrum in his effort to take office
again despite charges by the sen-
ate war investigating committee
that he had used his position for
his own personal gain.
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