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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 30, 1950
61ST YEAR
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To Be Felt in Texas Areas
Allied Troops Cling
Stubbornly to Pohang
Odessa Oil Man Denies That
Mickey Cohen Is His Guest
Lodger Tells How He Took
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And an attorney named Strange
didn’t want his name on his grave-
stone—just the words, “Here lies
a lawyer and an honest man” be-
cause he figured that everybody
would say, “That's Strange.”
Congress Prodded By
Truman for Action
To Increase Taxes
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (P) — President Truman prodded con-
gress today for quick action on a bill to increase taxes by $5,000,000,-
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In an average year, U. S. forest
fires burn over areas larger than
Delaware and Rhode Island com-
bined.
2 Men Die of Injuries
Suffered in Smash of
2 Trucks North of City
Two men died in Medical and Surgical hospital, one at 10:30
p. m. Tuesday and the other at 5 a. m. Wednesday, of injuries re-
ceived when a truck in which they were riding was crushed in col-
lision with a large Yellow Transit company freight truck Tuesday
Gainesville Produce
Prices paid by Gainesville
wholesalers to farmers and other
producers:
Butterfat: No. 1, 50 cents.
Hens: Light, 16 cents; heavy 18
cents; roosters 12 cents.
Eggs, candle basis: No. 1, 38
cents; No,. 2, 22 cents.
No. 1 turkeys: 20 cents.
Reds Pay Heavily in
Dead for Small Gains
By RELMAN MORIN
TOKYO, Thursday, Aug. 31 (AP).—The Korean war
front blazed with action Wednesday as allied forces lashed
back at mounting North Korean forces probing furiously for
Coast Late Today
NEW ORLEANS, Aug 30 (A) — The gulf hurricane roared to-
ward New Orleans today and was expected to strike the Louisiana
coast this afternoon and reach the Mississippi and Alabama coasts
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be dangerously high from the east
Louisiana coast to Apalachicola,
Fla., and warned that persons in
low places in that area should
move to higher ground immedi-
ately.
Stevens said that normally the
weather bureau tried to get hur-
ricane warnings at least 24 hours
in advance, “but this time we may
be a little shy of time."
Stevens said if the hurricane
follows the course he expects,
New Orleans probably will not
feel its full fury, but the Mis-
sissippi gulf coast will take a
lashing similar to the one it ex-
perienced Sept. 19, 1947, when 21
persons were killed and damage
ran into the millions.
Gulf Shore Pounded
Storm tides pounded the middle
gulf shore and sent shallow sheets
of water across low-lying roads
today.
The key east-west U. S. high-
way 90 route along the Alabama
and Mississippi coasts was threat-
ened with a watery blockade in
several sections. One weak spot
was the Mobile bay causeway,
just east of Mobile.
Rising gulf waters threatened
to cut off Fort Morgan, Ala., on a
long peninsula jutting westward
from Gulf Shores, Ala. Motorists
drove through about six inches of
water.
Fresh to strong easterly winds,
ranging up to 38 miles ah hour,
moaned along the coast.
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evening.
The wreck occurred on U. S.
highway 77 three miles north of
Gainesville at 6:55 p. m. Tuesday,
at the beginning of a storm that
developed into a miniature cloud-
burst.
Jay Homer Dickens, 36, of route
7, Statesville, N. C., his head and
body badly crushed and lacerated,
died without regaining conscious-
ness. Oxygen and blood transfu-
sions were administered for sev-
eral hours before he succumbed.
Charlie Hunter Benefield, 66,
of Boswell, Okla., whose skull was
fractured, died at 5 a. m. Wednes-
day without being conscious. Like
Dickens, he was given blood
transfusions and placed under an
oxygen hood. Papers on his per-
son gave his address as route 2,
DeQueen, Ark., but it was learned
later that he had recently moved
to Boswell. His body was taken
in charge of the Murray Funeral
home, Durant, after being remov-
ed from the hospital to the Lea-
zer-Keel Funeral home of this
city.
The body of Dickens will be
shipped Thursday to Statesville,
N. C., for services and burial. It is
in charge of Leazer-Keel.
Dickens’ death was the eighth
and Benefield’s the ninth traffic
fatalities in Cooke county this
year.
The flatbed truck which Bene-
field operated in his produce bus-
iness and which he had purchased
at Wilson, Okla., last year, was
described by mechanics as almost
a total loss.' The entire front end
and cab were crushed into a mass
of useless metal and glass. Onions,
potatoes and other produce on
the truck were scattered over a
wide area of the highway and the
truck was hurled to the west side
of the road.
The large transit truck, dam-
aged by the headon collision,
plunged across the borrow ditch
on the east side of the highway,
went through a wire fence and
stalled in mud in a nearby field.
It did not overturn.
The driver, Owen H. Magruder,
43, of Oklahoma City, was not
hurt. It was reported that this
truck had not been placed back
on the highway shortly before
noon Wednesday.
It was believed that Dickens
probably was driving the smaller
truck, since Benefield was picked
up from the ground near the
right door Dickens was tossed
onto the pavement at the rear of
the vehicle. Benefield had about
$200 on his person but none was
found on Dickens and there was
no information as to whether the
latter was working for Benefield
or had been given a ride and
was driving for the older man.
Magruder was going north and
the smaller truck was coming
south. Light rain was falling at
the time. Magruder said that the
Benefield truck endeavored to
pass a car to the left, the driver
appeared to have applied his
brakes when he saw the big truck
coming and the smaller truck
began skidding from side to side,
just before the headon collision
occurred.
Almost immediately after the
collision, a deluge of rain began
falling, accompanied by incessant
lightning and hard wind. Rain
pelted ambulance attendants and
men directing traffic like hail-
stones, adding to their difficulties.
Some of them were soaked to the
skin within seconds. Cars and
trucks by dozens, going in either
direction, were slowed at the
scene of the wreck until the small
truck could be removed clear of
the highway.
One hundred yards north of the
wreck area, a car driven by Dale
W. Holmes of Wichita, Kansas,
had been halted by the rain. He
was pulling a two-wheel trailer.
Another automobile, driven by
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“The president emphasized the
importance of speed in order to
assure that the treasury can go
forward with the new collections
on the scheduled date,” Myers
said.
Myers said that what with the
amendments to be debated he
doesn’t think the ball can pass the
Senate before Tuesday.
He and McCormack agreed that
once the Senate acts a little time
will be required to iron out dif-
ferences in the Senate measure
and the one previously passed by
the House.
Meanwhile there was talk of
compromise on the bitterly fought
excess profits tax amendment.
Off-stage maneuvering was re-
ported aimed at a settlement
about like this:
1. Delay of action on an ex-
cess profits levy to take the
profits out of war until early
next year, but —
2. With a rigid agreement that
the profits levy, when enacted,
would apply as of July 1, 1950,
or Oct. 1, 1950.
If the compromise is accepted,
the retroactive application would
represent a major victory for a
group led by Senators O’Mahoney
(D-Wyo) and Connally (D-Tex).
They seek to tack the levy on the
general tax bill now and make it
effective July 1.
Delay in action would be a con-
cession to Chairman George (D-
Ga) of the Senate Finance com-
mittee and others who contend
that congress may do serious harm
to the natian’s economy if it
adopts a hastily prepared tax on
profits.
no “really bad”
Then there was the corporation
lawyer in Houston who opened a
conference of the members of his
firm with, “Gentlemen, let us
prey.”
cloudy with
Ed Gossett To
Be Speaker at
Joint Luncheon
Congressman Ed Gossett
speed on the measure. cipitation overnight
Secretary of the Treasury Sny- inch.
der, who sat in on the confer- — —
ence, emphasized the terrific job
facing the treasury if increases
are to become effective Oct. 1.
EAST GREENWICH, R. L, Aug.
30 (A)—A young lodger told to-
day, police charged, how he
slaughtered one by one a family
of five—three children, the hus-
band and the young wife who he
said was goino to have his baby.
The family, Fred J. Dusza, 39,
his wife, Beatrice, 31, and their
children, were found yesterday
in the ruins of their burned house.
Held as their slayer was Edwin
H. Reynolds, 27, a rangy blond
young man who had lodged with
the Duszas since he and his wife
separated last Christmas.
Police Chief Charles R. John-
son said Reynolds told him he
fought with Dusza and beat him
to death after an argument Mon-
day night in which Reynolds said
he was the father of a baby ex-
pected by Mrs. Dusza in October.
Reynolds was captured late last
night by troopers who surprised
him in the home of his estranged
wife, where he was alone.
Johnson said Reynolds was
“cool and not nervous” as he gave
an account of the night of terror
in the seven-room frame house in
a lonely farming area.
The chief declined to reveal
Reynold’s statement in detail. But
he gave this account of the night:
A little before midnight Rey-
nolds and the Duszas were play-
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early tonight.
At 9:30 a. m. (CST) it was cen-
tered about 165 miles south-south-
east of New Orleans, the weather
bureau said.
Winds up to 95 miles an hour
extended outward about 100 miles
to the northeast and east of the
center. Gales extended out some
250 miles in the northeast quad-
rant.
W. R. Stevens, chief forecaster
of the New Orleans weather bu-
reau, said hurricane center is ex-
pected to pass a little east of
Burwood, La., this afternoon. Bur-
wood is located in the southwest
pass at the mouth of the Missis-
sippi river some 50 airline
miles south of New Orleans.
Stevens said the hurricane’s
center would reach the Mississippi
and Louisiana coasts early to-
night.
Winds To Increase
He said winds will increase to-
day, reaching hurricane force
from New Orleans to Panama
City, Fla., this afternoon or to-
night.
Stevens warned that tides will
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Lake level, 617.56; temperature
of water, 80; barometric pressure,
29.85, steady; winds variable 10
this afternoon,'tonight and Thurs-
day. Fair and mild; high today,
88; low 65; high Thursday, 88.
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--By A. MORTON SMITH--
TODAY IS THE 60th birthday
A of The Daily Register, and
this edition begins the 61st year
of this newspaper.
The Register, however, had been
published in Gainesville 12 years
as a weekly newspaper, before it
became a daily. Originally, it
was the Sherman Register, and
was moved to this city in 1878.
JOHN T. LEONARD came to
Cooke county from Illinois, and
became teacher of the public
school at Fair Plains, where the
Santa Fe switch is located south
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’ 1 He began correpording for The
Hesperian, and the publisher
liked his work so well that when
the editor resigned, Mr. Leonard
was offered the post of editor.
He accepted and spent a year
or more with The Hesperian be-
fore he bought The Register and
began publication of it early in
1890.
It was on August 30, 1890, that
the first edition of The Daily Reg-
ister came off the press, in the
same building where The Register
is now published.
MR. LEONARD WAS an inde-
fatigable and enthusiastic booster
for Gainesville. His editorial pol-
icy was to promote anything
worthwhile for the city, and to
criticize anything detrimental to
the community that went on here.
This policy has been carried
over since his passing. Civic lead-
ers have always been able to
count on The Register to back
any worthwhile enterprise of
value to the city, and to furnish
personnel to help put over such
projects.
DURING MR. L E O N A R D’S
five terms as mayor (longer than
any individual has served the
city), Leonard park land was
purchased and many improve-
ments made on it. First street
paving was done, a city hall
erected and other municipal as-
sets acquired.
Before and since that period of
time, The Register has sponsored
or initiated many worthy enter-
prises and backed them liberally
with space and individual effort.
Not every person has agreed
with The ' Register’s policy
through the years, but not any
individual has lived in Gaines-
ville, but has agreed with The
Register’s policy on occasions, and
benefited therefrom.
The Register has never bad a
Milquetoastish editorial policy
about public affairs. And it has
been an aggressive editorial pol-
icy that has helped get worth-
while things done in Gainesville.
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Wichita Falls will be principal
speaker at a joint luncheon of
service clubs at which 24 North
Texas and Southern Oklahoma
mayors will be guests, Ken Blan-
ton, program chairman, an-
nounced Wednesday.
The luncheon will be held next
Tuesday at 12 noon in the Tur-
ner hotel roof garden. Kiwan-
ians, Optimists and Lions are
dispensing with their regular
meetings to attend, and Rotarians
will also be present, although
they hade previously arranged a
program for Wednesday of next
week.
Tickets will be placed on sale
this week, Mr. Blanton said, and
members of the four clubs are
eligible to buy for themselves
and invited guests they desire to
bring to the luncheon.
Mayor Henry A. Lynch will be
host to the visiting mayors as a
part of the Gainesville Centen-
nial celebration.
Mayors of the following cities
were invited to attend: Fort
Worth, Dallas, Greenville, Mc-
Kinney, Sherman, Denison,
Whitesboro, Collinsville, Pilot
Point, Bowie, Decatur, Henrietta,
Nocona, Saint Jo, Muenster, Mari-
etta, Ardmore, Sanger, Bonham
and Wichita Falls. Representa-
tives of Tioga and Valley View
were also invited.
Because of the limited facilities
for luncheon on the roof garden,
club members are urged to make
their reservations this week.
Congressman Gossett will
spend two days next week in the
Gainesville area. He will speak
Monday morning at the dedica-
tion of the new public school at
Muenster.
In the afternoon, he will be in
the Gainesville Labor day parade,
will attend -the dedication of the
Frank Buck Memorial zoo, and
witness the opening performance
of "Progressorama" Monday
night. He will be a guest at the
Turner hotel over night, and
speak at the Tuesday luncheon.
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weather was
this afternoon,
tonight and
Thursday. Not
much change in
temp e r a t u r e.
Moderate to
fresh northeast
to north winds |
on the coast.
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this afternoon, tonight and Thurs-
day with a few scattered thunder-
showers. Not much change in
temperature.
Louisiana—Rain squalls and high
winds extreme southeast portion
this afternoon and tonight. Oth-
erwise mostly cloudy with scat-
tered thundershowers through
Thursday. Fresh to strong north-
easterly winds on the coast ex-
cept hurricane force New Orleans
and Grand Isle area.
Oklahoma — Fair west, partly
cloudy east today, scattered show-
ers or thunderstorms southeast
and extreme east. Generally fair
tonight and Thursday, cooler
southeast.
Pecan Tree Uprooted to
Make Way for Monument
There was only a hole in the
courthouse lawn Wednesday
morning where there was a pecan
tree Tuesday. The 20-year-old
tree had been removed to make
way for a granite monument to
Cooke county’s world war II
dead.
Workmen Wednesday were pre-
paring to build the foundation
for the placement of the ’monu-
ment. Permission for placement of
the monument on the northwest
corner of the courthouse lawn and
for removal of the tree was
granted Aug. 14 by the commis-
sioners’ court after several par-
ents of servicemen killed in the
last war made an appeal.
Previously there had been some
sentiment that a more appropri-
ate place for the monument might
be found and that the pecan tree
should not be removed.
where the Reds recaptured Kigye
—the third time in 48 hours that
the communications point
changed hands—the Communists
were threatening to cut the Po-
hang-Taegu road with more than
a harassing force. If successful,
the Red maneuver would isolate
South Korean forces just north
of Pohang.
The weariness of battle-scarred
South Koreans brought worried
looks in American command
quarters. The Reds were uncom-
fortably close to Pohang and Re-
publican defenders seemed un-
duly tired.
The death struggle for the No.
2 South Korean port on the Sea
of Japan coast committed ’about
20,000 men to the side.
Another 20,000 Reds rolled
down from the mountains on
Taegu from 18 miles to the north
of the central front city.
More Communists—possibly up
to three divisions—rushed to join
the battle.
By order of North Korean Pre-
mier Kim II Sung the Reds have
until midnight to wipe out United
Nations forces by the end of Au-
gust. They were far behind
schedule.
U. S. Negro and South Korean
troops threw the North Koreans
off bloody Battle mountain near
Haman, 10 miles northwest of
Masan port on the southern coast.
American First Cavalrymen
stormed up the highest hill near
Waegwanin an attack that
jumped off Wednesday night.
It was the eighth time in two
weeks Battle mountain changed
hands. It was swapped twice
Wednesday.
The Waegwan attack was the
first by the American Cavalry-
men in days. The whole Korean
warfront, which winds 10 miles
through the mountains westward
from Pohang to Waegwan and
then southward to the coast,
seemed to have come to life.
Red probers tried to cross the
Naktong river between Waegwan
and Battle mountain. They were
knocked by U. S. artillery and
riflemen of the U. S. 4th Infantry
and First Cavalry divisions.
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On the worrisome north-
eastern front, American and
South Korean forces at Po-
hang launched a small-scale
tank-infantry attack on Reds
who penetrated within rifle
range of that number 2
United Nations seaport.
The U. S. attack stalled after
gaining at least one mile north of
the city, said Associated Press
Correspondent Tom Lambert.
< General MacArthur’s war sum-
mary early today said Red infil-
trators had been cleared from the |
main road southwest of Pohang
which had been cut by a North
Korean patrol early Wednesday.
Communist rifle fire continued,
however, from nearby hills.
On the central front northwest
Taegu, U. S. First Cavalry divi-
sion forces attempting to take a
hill position were forced to with-
draw under heavy Red mortar
and automatic weapons fire.
Determined to clean out the
menacing enemy positions, the
First Cavalry vowed to renew
the attack. The hill was four
miles northeast of Waegwan
which is 12 miles northwest of
Taegu.
Jumping off against an enemy
of company strength or larger
after First Cavalry division ar-
tillery had pounded Red posi-
tions, the Americans succeeded
in slugging to within 200 feet of
the summit before drawing back.
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The American said it preferred
not to disclose the limousine driv-
er’s name.
“The driver said that as he
drove up to Harvey’s place Cohen
said ‘I’ve never seen anything like
this before,’ apparently referring
to Harvey’s big house. The driver
said Cohen also said something
about going swimming. Harvey
has a swimming pool at his yard.”
The newspaper said Harvey de-
nied, a few minutes later, that
any guests had arrived at his
home. He also denied knowing
any such person as Denny Morri-
son, the American said.
Earlier Cohen spent three hours
between flights in El Paso, Tex.,
under police surveillance.
Using the name Denny Morri-
son, Jr., he was accompanied at
El Paso by a man who gave his
name as Denny Morrison. A Den-
ny Morrison is a Hollywood
writer.
Cab Driver Tracy Barnes said
he took them among other places
to Anapra, N. M., a few miles
from El Paso. Anapra is the site
of a racing news relay office. El
Paso County Sheriff Joe Camp-
bell a few months ago snipped a
wire there that was furnishing-
horse race information to the Sil-
ver State News service.
El Paso police kept watch on
Cohen at the request of Los An-
geles authorities.
By The Associated Press
Rainy, unsettled weather was forecast today for the upper Texas
coast and in parts of East Texas as a result of a hurricane churning
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ODESSA, Texas, Aug. 30 (AP)—
Gambler Mickey Cohen flew into
this West Texas oil town today.
What for, no one knew.
A waiting limousine driver at
the Midland-Odessa airport said
he had been told to take Cohen
to “Paul Harvey’s place.”
Harvey is a wealthy Odessa
sportsman and oil man who main-
tains a $75,000 home three miles
east of Odessa.
Harvey immediately denied Co-
hen planned to visit him.
“Just because I gamble a bit,”
said Harvey, “people assume I
know all these big shots. I don’t.
I confine my activities to Odessa.
I don’t know Mickey Cohen, have
never met him, didn’t know he
was coming to town, and have no
plans to meet him.”
Cohen left Los Angeles by
American Airlines plane late last
night, arrived in El Paso early
today and transferred there to
another commercial plane for the
airport which serves Odessa and
Midland. Midland is another West
Texas oil town.
It was reported the Los Angeles
underworld character was accom-
panied by Denny Morrison, Hol-
lywood writer.
The Odessa American said one
of its staff members talked again
to the limousine driver, and that
the latter asserted “he took Co-
hen and four men directly to Har-
vey’s place.”
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CHILD ACTRESS GOES TO BOARDING SCHOOL—Laura
Lee Michel, 9, $100-a-day movie actress, waves goodbye as she
left Los Angeles with Attorney Oscar Cummins for a boarding
school “somewhere in Texas.” Laura Lee, who recently was the
center of a bitter court fight over her custody, will remain a ward
of the Los Angeles county juvenile court. She is being sent to the
Texas boarding school so that her foster parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Otto Michel, can visit her. (AP Wirephoto)
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THAT DREAD MOMENT—Mother, wife and daughter bid a
tearful farewell to Sgt. Raymond R. Frey, who left Louisville, Ky.,
with a marine unit for active duty. Frey’s mother, Mrs. Mary
Frey, sobs openly as the wife throws her arms around him in a
farewell gesture. His four-year-old daughter, Mary Ann, looks
on, seemingly sad and a bit bewildered. (AP Wirephoto)
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FT. WORTH LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH, Aug. 30 (AP) —
Cattle 1,600; calves 1,400; gener-
ally steady; slaughter calves
weak; medium and good slaugh-
ter steers and yearlings $24 to $30;
other steers $27.75 to $28; beef
cows $20 to $22.50; good and
choice slaughter calves $25 to
$28.50; common and medium
calves $18 to $25; stocker calves
$22 to $31.
Hogs 900; butchers 25 lower;
sows and feeder pigs steady; good
and choice 190-270 lb. butchers
$24.25; sows $18 to $21.50; feeder
pigs $20 to $21.
Sheep 800 steady: medium and
good slaughter spring lambs $26
to $27; yearling wethers $20 to
$22; two-year-old wethers $18 to
$20: cull to good aged ewes $11 to
$14; feeder lambs $25.50 down;
feeder yearlings $20 down.
Criminal Cases Being Heard
In County Court Wednesday
A 15-man venire was to appear
in Cooke county'court at 1:30
p. m. Wednesday for possible
petit jury service in trial of some
of 23 criminal cases slated for dis-
position Wednesday. Eighteen of
the cases were charges of driving-
while intoxicated. Some of the
defendants ap peared before
County Judge John Atchison on
Wednesday morning and pleaded
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ing cards when an argument
broke out “as to who was the
father of the child.” Reynolds and
Dusza fought. Reynolds knocked
Dusza down with a chair and
then got an ax and struck the
fallen man with it.
Mrs. Dusza pleaded with Rey-
nolds to get a doctor. When she
went into another room, Reynolds
went into a bedroom and took a
silk stocking from a drawer. Mrs.
Dusza reentered the living room
and sat down. Reynolds walked
behind her chair and garroted her
with the stocking
Awakened, the eldest Dusza
child, 11-year-old Beatrice, came
sleepy-eyed from her bedroom
and saw her slain parents. Rey-
nolds strangled the child with his
bare hands.
With the rope he garroted
three-year-old Gail first. Then
eight-year-old Kathryn.
He wandered about the house.
About 3 o’clock in the morning
he got a length of rubber hose
and went out to his car and
siphoned out some gasoline. He
put the gasoline in a tea kettle.
Then he poured it around a sofa
and on the carpet in the living
room.
Then he lit a match and threw
it near the sofa.
effects” from the gulf storm.
The New Orleans bureau’s ad-
visory at 7:30 a. m. today ordered
hurreane wornings hoisted from
New Orleans and Grand Isle, La.,
to Panama City, Fla. The storm
was located about 250 miles
south of Mobile, Ala., moving
northward about 12 miles per
hour. It was due to hit the
alerted area this afternoon or to-
night.
At mid-morning today, no rain
was reported anywhere in Texas.
However, the extended U. S.
weather bureau forecast called
for moderate to heavy rainfall
along the upper Texas coast the
next four days.
Yesterday and last night, scat-
tered thundershowers hit many
sections of the state. A 20-minute
hailstorm cut a wide swath across
Knox county in North Texas,
damaging cotton as much as 50
per cent. Hail stones the size of
walnuts pounded the ground.
Goree, in Knox county, had 1.5
inches of rain.
A heavy windstorm struck
Stamford, farther south, but only
a few drops of rain fell.
Bonham, in North Texas near
the Oklahoma line, had 1.65
inches of rain. Beaumont, on the
upper coast, recorded .95 of an
inch of rain — but the U. S.
Weather bureau said this was not
necessarily the result of the gulf
hurricane.
Other rainfall reports for the
24-hour period ending at 6:30
a. m., today: Del Rio .39; Fort
Worth .35; Dallas and Corsicana
.20; Bryan .17; Abilene .14; Waco
and Mineral Wells .12; Corpus
Christi and Galveston .11; Austin
.09; and Childress and Lufkin .06.
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