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‘DIRTY POLITICS’
Poll Tax
ably late this week or early next
a
Nationalist
ISSUES HIS
‘FORECAST
he would not submit their names
Planes Bomb
But the poll taxes. Orr said were
the Commerce Landing area today
man plantations splintered tenant
%
with respect to the filming and or governor is to be elected. No
with,” said Houston Det. H. K.
See IKE STEESSES, Page 2
Car-Truck Crash
cowardly fashion until I got out of | •
6
The dead were Dan. Burgin, 26,
Officers Cast
tie said.
effects of red bombings on the two
Tachen islands.
WEATHER
complicity in the recent unsuccess-
6 Leave For
31-10 to have them stand trial.
proposed by the interim water
Induction
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ate committee Feb. 13.
homes.
ON AGRICULTURAL OUT-PUT
Soviet Communists Order
All-Out Production Drive
—
Convention
up a Jan.
plied to anyone wh
day late in fgliter
who is only one
ing.
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r,
Caamaamad
Dorsey Hardeman of San Angelo,
because they said it apparently
subjected soil conservation dams
ton Police Capt. Cecil Priest that
he didn't know what Stokes re-
"cheap, dirty politics" today what
"the Democrats" on the Senate In-
Placing U. S. In
Defendant's Role
Broadcast Aims
President Says No Ground
Forces Committed To Fight
(144,448,000 tons’.
said there also must
billion
The
chairman (McClellan himself) has
advised some members of the staff
for a vote on whether to replace
them.
McCarthy said those asked to
$
Thompson, who headed the in-
vestigation that led to the arrests
town for a day or two" to raise
the issue. He said he was not con-
sulted in advance, and added:
Eason told officers he had liv-
ed in Alabama about two months.
He said he was a former resi-
dent of California. Two relatives
in Texas were notified of the ac-
cident.
The car Eason was driving, a.
surrounding delta area moved the
Injured to hospitals in Memphis
and Tunica, Miss.
converted into a makeshift dormi-
tory for the homeless. ‘
The Commerce Landing tornado
accept an amendment to his bill
to exempt such practices.
He and Martin agreed to a 2-
week subcommittee study of their
houses for possible additional vic-
tims.
Most of the damage at Olive
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These diplomats say such a Chi
i nese Communist move has grave
propaganda dangers for the West
and fails to meet the idea of cease
ing out the Red bombings on the
exposed Tachen outpost 300 miles
north of Formosa.
Nationalist bombers flew through
sides restricting the commission's
authority, It also proposed the
commission should be full-time and
At least part of Denton's ille-
i gal liquor traffic went dry this
morning about 10:30 a.m. when
went out of the office under the
counter. The court Orr reported
just didn’t include poll tax sales
that went through the mail.
As for taxes, Orr reported that
FACE SAVER ry T-A in
lo Dei end Hormosa
pear as a material witness at the committee last year—at the Demo- ---------------------
examining trial of Harry L. Wash- crate' insistance, he said. for confirmation" to continue in i
50,000, 54,881 and 65,337.
See POLL TAX, Page 3
Principal O. D. Wyatt said, "We’ve been doing it for about
14 years."
The morning parade begins about 7 a.m. and continues until the
first bell.
Hot, fried pies, rolls, milk, hot chocolate and coffee with parents'
permission are on the regular menu.
intense antiaircraft fire in their w;11e • II.,,.+e -
strike at Yikiangshan, official re: IklIIS 4» IIuTU
all returned. The Nationalists said 1 In South Texas
RECOVERING’
Midsouth states yesterday, leaving
31 dead and about 100 injured along
their haphazard path.
The storms, probing from the
furious clouds of a squall line,
struck in Arkansas and Alabama—
with a bloody jackpot in Mississip-
pi. Extensive property damage was
reported.
Twenty-eight .were killed near
Commerce Landing, Miss., about
30 miles south of here, including
an unidentified young girl who died .
today in a Memphis hospital. Three
perished in another twister at Olive
Branch, Miss., 18 miles south of
Memphis.
Hop • scotching tornadoes also
caused considerable damage near
Marianna, Ark., and Huntsville,
Ala., but no one was seriously in-.
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52ND YEAR OF DAILY SERVIGE NO. 157
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Ing came as the Far Eastern
crisis gathered steam and, Rus
sia a campaign against West Ger
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i-t :
—a
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24 editorial in the party news-
paper Pravda denouncing recent
ea^h—*■ on production of con-
only a trickle from the 15,000-man,.e
garrison and 15,000 civilians sweat-1 ues
1U
r-.-a
l “
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ate Hold
Bids
go to New York. This was regard-
ed as having a certain negative
value in lessening the tension over
Formosa.
‘HOPEFUL SIGN*
British Foreign Secretary Sir
Anthony Eden is understood to
n
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wpAk
Chairman McClellan (Ark GROUNDHOG
said in an interview that "the
lows. If be fails to find the
shadow warm weather will be
close behind.
The United States Weather
Bureau said clouds would be
in evidence this afternoon with
tonight being some warmer..
But Thursday is due to turn
colder with some scattered
showers.
which restricted commission con-
i trol to "public waters."
Hardeman said he had no idea
of interfering with standard soil
DIE IN FIRE
Firemen removed the body of a child from the second
RED CHINA
LOOKS FOR
indestructible defenses
country.
The decree followed 1
Session Today
WASHINGTON u — Damoctata
start talking today with cities in-
terested in playing bort, is their
ISM national convention.'
A subcommittee of the Demb-
cratic National Committee aMM»-
bMat party toadquartmte Mm
chicgoandphundalphiared.
I-Mf * not a» iiriM M-
production of milk must be dou-
bled and there must be approxi-
See COMMUNISTS, Page 8
VISITS IKE ON 100TH BIRTHDAY
Mrs. Nettie Angus Moulden, a White House visitor on her 100th birthday, takes a
look at the newest signature in her autograph book, that of President Eisenhower
as the chief executive hands her the book in Washington The first signature was
that of President Lincoln, whom Mrs. Moulden knew as a girl. (AP Wirephoto)
DENTON AND VICINITY: Partly
cloudy this afternoon and to-
night Warmer tonight. Thurs-
day, scattered showers and turn-
ing colder.
TEMPERATURES
(Experiment Station Report)
High Tuesday .................
High year ago .............
Low year ago ..............40
Sun sets at 3:03 p.m. today, rises
day and fair Friday.
Denton County rainfall so far
this month: 0; so far this year: 1.33
inches; this time last year; 2,01
inches.
Walter S. Eason. an Alabama vy traffic at a slow rate of speed
resident, was reported to be re- - k--ic ------ he -— t
covering slightly from exposure
and internal injuries he received
here Monday night after he wreck-
ed his car on Highway 77 and lay
undiscovered on a creek bank for
almost 13 hours.
Hospital authorities this morn-
ing said the man was resting well.
He was detained in the hospital
emergency room Tuesday for more
yesterday. - ----------- —
And the dismissal of charges vestigations subcommittee in ask-' subcommittee meets next, presum-
against Carl Heninger touched off ing seven staff members to resign, ehl "hie week — eapi —1
an argument between Houston and It is not unusual for committees
San Angelo authorities over why, to have a staff shakeup whea party
he was jailed in the first place, control of Conguess shifts, but Me-
Dist. Atty. Aubrey D. Stokes of Carthy said the present case vio-
San Angelo said Heninger will ap- iates a rule adopted by the sub-
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man rearmament hit full stride,
neither the decree nor the news-
papers mentioned any foreign pol-
icy decisions
Based on a report presented to
the meeting by Party Secretary
Nikita Khrushchev, the decree
said the natioms grain harvest
must hit “no less than 10 billion
poods (180 million tons) by 1960.
The Soviet grain harvest in 1852
was officially announced as eight
Hardeman's proposal was the Costa Rica Lifts
£ pofoppinea wyteneefnreanmw- i Immunity Given
ta5 Stugisidemmttee retuproposes Two Legislators
turner goods at the expense of
heavy industry as a distortion of
previous decrees and dangerous to
the defense of the country.
The Central Committee meet-
ing was held Jan. 25-31. in ad-
vance of tomorrows opening of the
Supreme Soviet (Parliament*. The
first word of the session was given
to American correspondents yes-
terday at the Kremlin. Today’s
MEMPHIS. Tenn. • — Deadly 1 The 25-bed hospital at Tunica, | The news conference, film-
tornadoes ripped' through three about 15 miles souith nt Cnmmeree ad faw n-eihi- 1--- __I
resizn are Thomas LaVenia, Dan-
iel Buckley and C George Anastos,
bis appointees as assistant counsel;
Charles Tracy and Robert Mc-
Elroy, staff investigators: Miss
Rosemary Engel, assistant clerk;
and Miss Regina Roman, research
assistant. All seven are holdovers
from McCarthy's administration
has delayed action on his nomina-
’ tion of John Harlan to be an asso-
ciate justice. . —____
Dixon-Yates — Eisenhower said "about 830.000" came across the
They urged a measure, by Sen.
Crawford Martin of Hillsboro,
of our
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If the groundhog is any re-
spectable weather prophet,
persons in the Denton arel can
look for six weeks of cold tem-
peratures.
For there was ample sun
this morning for the elusive
their jobs, "end offered them the
floor of a 10-family tenement house that was destroyed ’
by fire in Amsterdam, N.Y. The tenement fire cost 12 "
persons their lives, including 11 children. (AP Wire- 1
photo) (
By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW U-The, Soviet Com-
munist party's powerful Central
Committee has ordered an all-out
• drive to increase production of
grain, livestock, milk, wool, poul-
try and eggs in the Soviet Union.
But a committee decree, pub-
lished today, said the party still
"regards as its major duty a
further increase of heavy indus-
try, which forms a solid basis for
the whole economy and for the
from a Highway 77 bridge south — „ ,
of Lake Dallas. He called the Den- 1954 Oldsmobile, bore Alabama li-
As for the resolution adopted by _ __________
the ten Democrat on the Senate- a surprise. Orr called the sale of
While the U.N. Security Council
. or he might never have seen the 1 awaits Communist China's reac- CORPUS CHRISTI (P— Two men
1 man. tion to its invitation to talk over were killed and another was criti-
Firing Of Staff
_-p - , A — have explained this slightly hopeful
Hit By McCarthy
• " vices from the British missions at
about 15 miles south of Commerce ed for possible later use on A l II
Erhs toleyision,andin Ftheaterg, Sales Have
in party dresses were organized covered.a Wide range of
to help the staff. A school was topics. They included: . .Im i (n 9
Army strength—The President 1.000 Knn
said that at this moment he sees I VVUH AUUII
three Denton County officers raid-
er a room in the nameless hotel
next door to the Groovy Grill on
East Prairie Street
Denton County Sheriff Wylie
Barnes, chief deputy Bud Gentle,
and Liquor Control Board Agen
Malcolm Branch found more than
a case of half-pints in whiskey and
gin. They also located a case of i
wine.
The thre officers got the key to
the hiding place in a hotel room
from a known Denton bootiegker.
The two opened cases were in the
middle of the floor—ready for bus-
iness
The known bootlegger sat in the
hack seat of the Sheriffs car—out
of business
He and his merchandise were
taken to the court house where
both were to stay for a while.
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opportunity, If they cared to, fo re-
sign." He declined to name them.
McClellan said if they decide1
1 not to resign, the matter will be
submitted to-ths full subcommittee
PRICE: 5 CENT8
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Ike Stresses Intent
The final measure, a angttyr ^^"dviJi^’p’"
proposed amendment to authorize sued the accused deputies They
up to a 3 cents tax to finance a fled into the exclusive Union Club
bond program for building dams and apparently escaped by a rear
and reservoirs, has been set for door Civil guards later were set
public hearing before another Sen- around the club and the two men’s
ton County Sheriff's office and re- cense plates. Officers said it was
ported that the man appeared to severely damaged.
be dead.
that he does not intend to with- , county counters during Monday a
draw the controversial Dixon-Yates, rush.
power contract as a result of Dem The taxes paid was no surprise
ocratic opposition in Congress. —everybody's doing it.
PARTI.
editions of Moncow newspapers
carried long reports on the meet- ________ ____
ing. n". be a “marked increase in the pro-
Although the committee gather- duction of meat and animal fats.
Deputy Bud Gentle and Highway
Patrolman Pat Berkley found Ea-
son clad only in underwear — his
clothes having been soaked with
creek water in the accident.
Gentle said the car evidently hit
the end of the bridge and leaped
over the side. It hit the creek
bank on the far side of the bridge
and bounced back almost Under
the bridge. Eason crawled out of
the car in the night and up on the
bank.
. Eason told an ambulance atten-
dant he thought the wreck happen-
ed about 10:30 pan. Monday. He
said he was unable to crawl up on
the creek bank and onto the high-
way. The man who saw him.
whose identity is not know, said
he was crossing the bridge in hea-
WASHINGTON UP - Sen. Mc-
Carthy (R-Wis) protested as
That's because breakfast is the first course of the day there.
It‛s proving so popular, some parents are even accompanying
their children to school.
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Eisenhower said today
the United States has made it crystal clear it does not Intend
to let Formosa fall to international communism.
He said at a news conference he believes this country’s
de fend-Formosa declaration, voted by Congress last week,
insures against any miscalculation by the Chinese Com-
munists about American determination.
replacing the board of water engi- .... A .
neers with a 6-member, part-time, | .SAN JOSE Costa Rica (P.Costa
appointive water commission. Rica • Legislative Assembly yes-
Martin's proposal was a wrap-up terday lifted the congressional 1m-
of all the other fine measures but munitz.of two.deputies. accused.of
differing in various aspects. Be-
rnt by ployes in the offices of County
Matthew Ridgway. Army Tax Assessor and Collector G C.
j chief of staff, that the planned cut 'Bud) Orr Monday.
See STORM. Page 2 of 140,000 men might jeopardize Orr said Tuesday that his office
”” national security “to a degree." issued 1,305 poll taxes Monday
HARLAN NOMINATION “over the counter"—not that any
Supreme Cour t—Eisenhower .......
said it is unfortunate the Senate
Slokes said Heninger had ex- .
plained that “he was a victim of Ij • Q ■
circumstances." Stokes added that Ilcar II 10 6U
he waq satisfied with Heninger’s O
ss homstonhije “ ausTING-Werkagput-com;
That brough • repiy trom wamriscprbblemns0P T.
Senate subcommittee today. I
The first two water proposals
Sdnl want them -Sen An-to get a public satiring this session
gelo authorities) to take Heningernthe -gislature weressenttosthe
up there in the first place,'' Priest pane last.night in.anuapparent
’ id - effort to put down a brewing clash
AISe... ... — ..EN. between urban and rural interests. f .. . - ... . . .
to Tee .e^n-ethm ■..den « - "he subcommitteess ehatrman
Gentle said if Eason hadn't got-1 a cease-fire, air and sea actions cally injured yesterday it. an auto-
ten out of the car he might not swirl almost continuously around pickup crash five miles east of
have been found for days the Tachens. Meanwhile, powerful George West.
•Th- -.r 1Lca liL. 1. U.S. 7th Fleet forces supported by ' _ ' ~ .
.-ne acar 100Ked 6 he cbad swift Air Force Sabrejets await a Tezas A&M student, and an un-
Pared.it under the bridge Gen orders to evacuate the Tachens. identified hitchhiker riding in the
Refugees told of the shattering truck.
tggnet Orvel Folmer, 38. Corpus Christi; (M C 119
_______ ______ Schools were salesman, who had a leg severed I BrV 3 nA 11 ,
closed and civil activities were at in the crash, was in a critical; J. VF---
a standstill, they said. (condition. *
had.”
Stokes' reply to this was: "I
don't know why he made that
statement."
He added that he had discussed
fully with Priest and other Houston
police officials what to do with
Heninger and Washburn.
“I said to them, ’You broke this
thing snd I'm open for suggest-
See HENINGER, Page 2
ful revolt against President Jose
Figueres’ government.
The two. Mario Echandi and
.1—------------— — .Guillermo Jimenez, had been im-
Stmn , for plicated by • rebel prisoner cap-
nThaaommnitton SA-EThE s* Jan. 15. fhe ASsembly voted
TENANTS MOVED IN
FIRST DAY AD BAN v
... said the advertiser.
Miss Herron placed the follow-
ing ad in the Record-Chronicle
and she had it rented and the
tenants moved in by four o'clock
the first day the ad appeared.
PURNISHED npartment, bed-
room kitchan, private bath.
G. E. Refrigerator, 219 Hann, C-
xsxx.
A lot of people are looking for
nice rooms, apartments and
houses on the Classified page.
Is your rental listed?
Dial C2551
Ask for Classified
"d.
House Atomic Energy Committee the 1,205 voting certificates a “roc-
calling for cancellation of the con-jord for an off election year."
tract, the President said he had Meanwhile, a healthy increase
no comment other than to say the in poll tex payments over the
resolution was drawn along party state was shown in a spot check
-lines. _______ survey made by the Associated
CENSORSHIP CRITICISM Press Tuesday.
Censorship — The President said As usual, the figures are far
he didn't see how anyone could'short of poll tax payments made
rightly raise the cry of censorship in recent years when a president
LONDON (M—Communist China .....j-l.i8i.ji,, ; ..x:1—l.i.'liju'-.l'w , -------x. ? i
tppaaracetsdoxngwaysastggpbeueIST DAILY COURSE PROVES TO
the Formosa question. to discus BE pOpVLAR AT HtGH SCHOOL
peatbrgdemtttromPeipings ^FORT^ day"50”1* pypils,reach Fort Worth's Paschal
try to place the United States in
the role of defendant before the
world.
‘GRAVE DANGER’
___________no reason to alter plans for a cut I
cut a swath 200 feet wide through in Army strength. He made that Poll tax sales and tax collec-
the 8,000-acre Leatherman planta- remark in response to a request tions provided a full day for em-
tion, destroying a row of tenant for comment on the statement by' ployes in the offices of County
houses, a Negro church, a school; Gen. Matthew Ridgway, Army Tax Assessor and Collector G C.
and a cotton gin.
animal to see his shadow and . ...
he’ll duck back unger the ” survivorssearched the Leather-
ground and cold weather fol-
s oshsaussenrpkdandlana Yikiangshan
twister had an elementary school •
National Guardsmen patromed „TAIPEH, Formosa IP— Chiang
•• - - - - Kai-shek's warplanes hurled new
strikes at Communist Yikiangshan
early today and Nationalist refu-
gees told how Red bombers in turn
had brought civil activities on the
nearby Tachens to a virtual stand-
Branch centered at Wiggins Negro 1 still, ,0 .
elementary school. Twenty -three .1 The,, bombs fall all over the
students were at their desks when island, one refugee from the Ta-
the twister struck. A teacher and chens said. "There • n° place to
two children were killed. getaway from them. They were
Ambulances from towns in the falling, even when we lest. , . ______________________ __________
A U -buitttransporttoday land,' subsequent release of portions of statewide elections are set in the
od 533 civilians, many of them । his news conferences for use on state in 1955.
children, of the northern Formo TV amd in the theaters. He said Final tabulations are expected
san port of Keelung They were he understood that about 28 min-; to show an increase over the last
‘ of the first Presidential news off-year, 1868, in Harris.. Houston’.
Dallas. Tarrant, (Fort Worth’ and
of both Heninger and Washburn. . . . _,
KS Smderac""gSlFnomhsser,"e-
about the Washburn case until we
dropped the written statements in
his lap. He nearly jumped out the
window when we told him what we
burn. former son-in-law of Mrs.; ---
Weaver, the second man charged mr AT ।
tantnuvalayin nb.Tta, “ set Water Needs
than an hour in “serious ’ condi-
tion.
A passerby on Highway 77 first
noticed the man Tuesday morning
Eisenhower specifically refused to say whether the Na-
3-State Storm -
the Reds.
"This is cheap and petty politics
conservation practices and would; dirtiest ebbm
through people who can't strike
back.”
... ...
P F Ma " meT--
Six Denton County draftees were
scheduled to leave this morning
for Dallas where they will be in-
ducted into the Army, E. P. Craig,
chairman of the local Selective
Service Board, said this morning.
Inductees are Leroy Atkins, who
now lives at Fresno, Calif., Billy
Verrel White, who resides in Fort
Worth; Charles Robert Hall of Ro-
anoke. Bruce Ellis Kelly of Jus-
tin, Richard Corrin Hodgson, now
of Austin, and Grady Len Smo
therman of Frisco.
The next draft call has been set
for March 8.
Craig stressed the fact that 18-
year-olds are required to register
on their 18th birthday, or within
the next five days He also called
to their attention that the respon-
sibility of registering rested sole-
ly upon the individual, and that
the board doesn’t send a notice.
He concluded by saying that the
ones who fail to register would be
claimed delinquent if they had not
applied for registration papers
within five days after they had
reached their eighteenth birthday.
A five-year prison sentence or
a 810,000 fine or both can be ap-
Jefferson (Beaumount) counties.
' Estimated totals indicate that
Nueces ‘Corpus Christi' and Bexar
'San Antonio) may fall below 1853.
Here are some comparative fig-
ures 'first figure this year's esti-
mated total, second figure for 1854
and third for 1952): Harris 130.872,
195,905, and 27X188; Dallas 135,000.
147.410, and 180.050; Jefferson
7 Drop Of Bomb
Charge Brings
Arrest Spat
SAN ANGELO — One of two
Houston men accused of the auto
bomb murder of wealthy Mrs. Har-
ry E. Weaver was freed from jail
fire talks envisaged in the New
Zealand U.N. resolutio. The
broadcasts condemned New Zea- _
land's resolution as trickery, while 6b E ■ 'te E A 4• m
lauding Russian moves to get Red - I ■ MAkaE /A H-EAwa
Ehpadanal.mthesecuritfcoun-eL UCdU HILI
Significance was placed here on
the fact the Chinese Communists
have left themselves a loophole to
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in the last Congress.
None of the seven was reached
for comment.
“M WRECK VICTIM
The President said there has been no commitment to use
American ground forces in defense of Formosa. But he
declined to go into details as to how this country intends
to protect that main Chinese Nationalist island and the
Pescadores.
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