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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 31, 1951
(TEN RAGES)
NUMBER 289
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Negotiators Fail
Agree On Buffer
Says Lattimore and
Barnes Called ‘Our
30-Day Reprieve tor Sanity
Trial Given Richard McGee
State Health Department Is Not
Jubilant Over Low Polio Total
Owl Team Owners
Wave White Flag;
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denominations.
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226 Deathless Days
IN GAINESVILLE
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COBB TESTIFIES—Ty Cobb, former Detroit outfielder and
one of baseball’s most famous players, testified in a congression-
al inquiry into whether or not organized baseball violates anti-
monopoly laws. The Washington hearing is being conducted
by a house judiciary subcommittee. Cobb suggested that the
game’s controversial reserve clause might be modified to help
the players. (AP Wirephoto)
By
BOYCE HOUSE
Memorial day, May 30, also
known as Decoration day, was
first observed in 1869.
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troversial Gainesville baseball
issue ceased today after satisfac-
tory truce talks were held by
representatives of the Gainesville
baseball franchise and the Owl
baseball team owners.
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El Paso area. Not much change
in temperature.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy this
afternoon, tonight and Wednes-
day with scattered thundershow-
ers in extreme south portion. Not
Temperature—Today noon, 92;
low last night, 76; barometric
pressure, 30.10. .
East Texas, including Gaines-
Gainesville Produce
Prices paid by Gainesville
wholesalers to farmers and other
producers:
Butterfat: No. 1, 58 cents.
Hens: Light, 15 cents; heavy,
20 cents; roosters, 15 cents.
Eggs: No. 1 candle, 40 cents; No.
2 candle, 20 cents.
Turkeys: No. 1 toms, 20 cents;
No. 1 hens, 25 cents; No. 2’s and
old toms, 15 cents.
Green cowhides, 20 cents.
told the Senate Internal Security
subcommittee he was supplying
arms to a western China province
in 1933 while serving as a Rus-
sian intelligence officer.
He said he asked his superiors
for additional personnel.
He quoted a General Berzin,
chief of Soviet military intelli-
gence, as first offering several of
his men and specifically mention-
ing Lattimore and Barnes among
others.
Barmine said there were “the
first two American names” that
ever came to him in his intelli-
gence work for the Soviet gov-
ernment.
Barmine said for about three
years he has been chief of the
Voice of America’s Russian unit.
Barmine said that in July, 1937,
he fled from his post as charge
d’affaires and acting Soviet am-
bassador in Greece because some
of his former army classmates in
Moscow were purged.
Then a retired Russian briga-
dier general, Barmine said that he
knew his classmates who had
been shot were innocent. He said
he resigned from the Soviet serv-
ice and from the Communist
party, fleeing to Paris.
Senator O’Conor (D-Md) urged
that Owen Lattimore and Lauch-
lin Currie be called to testify
about efforts to obtain a wartime
army intelligence commission for
Frederick Vanderbilt Field.
Field, millionarie “angel” for
left-wing causes, testified last
week he had been offered a com-
mission but that it had been
blocked outside the army because
of a “certain problem” which he
reufsed to discuss.
O’Conor said that sworn testi-
mony previously taken by the
subcommittee was to the effect
that Field was assisted by Latti-
more, Currie and others in an ef-
fort to obtain the intelligence
commission.
Lattimore is a Johns Hopkins
university professor specializing
in far eastern affairs. An occasion-
al consultant to the State depart-
ment, he was one of the targets
of charges by Senator McCarthy
(R-Wis) last year that Commu-
nist sympathizers had infiltrated
the State department.
Currie is a former assistant to
President Roosevelt. He denied
last week that he had aided
Field’s efforts to obtain a com-
mission. .
O’Conor noted Currie’s denial
but remarked that “Owen Latti-
more has made no such denial.”
winds on the coast.
Oklahoma: Partly cloudy today
and tonight with a few scattered
thundershowers extreme north
portion today and in west and
north portions tonight; generally
fair Wednesday; not much change
in temperature.
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“Everything has been settled-
100 per cent,” said R. E. L.
(Bobby) Goff, vice-president of
the Owl club and general man-
ager of the Dallas Eagles.
The surprise settlement legally
boils down to:
(1) Withdrawal by the Owl
team owners of an appeal to the
Second Court of Civil Appeals,
Fort Worth, over the injunction
granted the local franchise by
District Judge Louis T. Holland
last Friday in 16th district court.
(2) Subsequent withdrawal by
the local franchise of the injunc-
tion against the Owl club.
The injunction, granted in 16th
district court here last Friday by
Judge Louis T. Holland of
Montague, prevents the Owl team
owners from transferring any of
Gainesville’s home games to an-
other park. The Owl team owners
sought to have this decision re-
versed in the appellate court. A
hearing had been called Friday
morning but will be canceled.
“All of Gainesville’s remaining
home games — regardless of at-
AUSTIN, July 31 (^—Gov-
ernor Shivers approved a 30-day
stay of execution today for Rich-
ard W. McGee.
The reprieve was granted on
recommendation of the state par-
dons board to permit time for a
sanity hearing.
Board Chairman Lyle C. Har-
ris said the board’s action was
unanimous after receiving word
during the afternoon that the
sanity hearing was contemplated.
The Lubbock district clerk ad-
vised the board both by telephone
and telegram of plans for the
hearing, date of which apparent-
ly still to be set.
McGee had been scheduled to
die in the electric chair Thurs-
day for the slaying of Grocery
Executive R. L. Allston in Lub-
bock three years ago. Before the
shooting McGee had quarreled
with Allston, Allston’s wife, and
their then 17-year-old daughter,
Betty Jane, whom he insisted he
was going to marry.
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AUSTIN, Tex., July 31 (A) —
There is no pride at the State
Health department over the year’s
polio slump.
There is only fear of what
might come next. Take State
Health Officer George W. Cox’
word for that.
The dread crippling disease this
year has struck 594 victims in
Texas through July 21, the last
Statewide report showed. Labt
year in the comparable period 1,-
288 victims had been felled.
“Polio is the most unpredictable
disease in the world,” said Dr.
Cox. “It climbs to new highs, as
it has done in Texas for the past
three years, and we wonder why.
Then it drops wav down, and
again we wonder why.
“We just never know what it’s
going to do next.”
apex of the shattered old Red
troop-massing area.
Marine fighters and B-26 bomb-
ers hit the Kumsong area east of
Pyonggang.
Reds between Kumsong and
Kumhwa, eastern Allied-held an-
chor of the old triangle, hurled
two light probing attacks at Al-
lied lines early this morning.
Both were turned back.
Those were the only attacks
reported by the Eighth Army.
Allied troops held mountain top
positions along the eastern front
won yesterday after a five-day
battle.
Nineteen flying boxcars
swooped through low hanging
clouds to within 400 feet of the
ground and dropped supplies to
these forces. They parachuted 70
tons of ammunition, barbed wire
and rockets to troops on the
ground that could scarcely be
seen through the mists. The Fifth
Air Force reported it has flown
more than 175,000 combat sorties
in Korea. That’s an average of
43 a day.
The navy reported the cruiser
Helena led a naval attack on
Communist artillery in beseiged
Wonsan on the east coast where
Red guns recently damaged two
U. S. rocket ships.
ties had one or two cases. Excep-
tions were Nueces with 10 cases,
Harris and Dallas with 9 each.
Some of the worst polio weath-
er, however, may still be ahead.
The peak came last year during
the week ending Aug. 12 when
an alltime high weekly total of
131 cases were counted. By the
end of the year the total had
climbed to the alltime record of
2,778 cases. They included more
than 200 deaths.
Despite this year’s slump, Tex-
ans continued their efforts to do
something about the disease so
little is known about. They con-
tributed $1,950,632 to the March
of Dimes, a 25 per cent increase
over last year’s contributions.
Grants continued to make pos-
sible polio treatment for polio
victims continued full swing at
the Warm Springs foundation.
played in Gainesville,” said Goff
assuringly.
He added that the Owl team’s
owners wanted to bury the hatch-
et and start all over. He promised
that the team’s owners would
try to strengthen the team by
playoff time.
Prentice Wilson, Dallas at-
torney for the Owl club, said “we
are surrendering.” He said that
it was unanimously agreed at a
conference Tuesday morning that
dissolution of the legal proceed-
ings would be for the best in-
terests of baseball, Gainesville
and the Owl club owners.
“We want to eliminate all this
ill will — and want to regain the
support of the fans,” chimed in
Goff.
He said the Owl club regretted
grievances it had caused Gaines-
ville citizens.
Attending the conference were
Attoreny Wilson, Mr. Goff, At-
torneys Cecil Murphy and L. V.
Henry, Jr., and R. D. Clack and
B. A. Dillard, the latter two rep-
resenting the local franchise.
Wilson said no future attend-
ance agreements of any kind had
been worked out. “We are just
hoping that Gainesville people
will be good sports and turn out
to see the Owls play.”
He stressed that a permanent
transfer of the franchise had
never been sought '— only a
transfer of the home games “to
minimize operating losses.” He
also said he wanted to “c l e a r”
Howard L. Green, Big State
League president. “He definitely
was not a party to our suit; he
was acting in the best* interests of
the league,” added Wilson.
It was learned from reliable
sources Tuesday that Owl Man-
ager Hal Van Pelt was instru-
mental in achieving dismissal of
the appeal case through the Dal-
las front office. Van Pelt, it was
reported, and the players wanted
to stay in Gainesville, but didn’t
want the ill will of the fans.
Both Polland and Van Pelt say
they are going to do their best to
field a winning team. The front,
office has agreed to help and as-
sures no player was recalled to
Dallas just to hurt Gainesville.
“Players were recalled because
Dallas needed them,” said Goff,
intimating that perhaps one or
more would be returned. He
didn’t reveal their names.
“With the fans’ support, I be-
lieve Gainesville will easily man-
age to get in the Big State league
playoffs and, with extra effort,
could win the pennant,” he pre-
dicted.
Dr. Cox considers 1951 still a
bad polio year.
“If we have even one case, it’s
bad,” he said. “And we’ve had
594. Of course, we are thankful
there hasn’t been more.”
Why there hasn’t been more no
one knows.
The longtime state health coun-
selor will hazard only one guess.
Some communities this year
might be reaping rewards of
cleanup campaigns during the re-
cent bad polio years, he said,
adding:
“But some haven’t cleaned up
enough.”
The gulf coast has been hardest
hit this year. Nueces county has
reported 103 cases to date. Harris
county has had 106.
For the week ending July 21
there were 88 cases reported
statewide. Most reporting coun-
Schmid had hinted strongly at a
board hearing in the McGee case
last week that the sanity hear-
ing was necessary to exhaust
court remedy.
At that hearing two doctors had
testified they considered McGee
insane both in their first con-
tacts with him before the slaying
and again during visits with him
last week in prison.
Dr. Paul White of the Univer-
sity of Texas Student Health
service said he diagnosed McGee
as insane after the youth was in-
volved in a disturbance at the
university in 1947.
Dr. David White of San Marcos
said he also considered McGee
insane when he treated him for
a 45-foot fall through the sky-
light of a San Marcos high school
building in 1940.
At two earlier hearings, wit-
nesses had appeared both for and
against clemency for McGee.
Some contended McGee had been
insane for years and did not
know right from wrong when he
fired the fatal shot into Allston’s
neck at the back door of the
Allston home. Peace officers who
participated in the conviction
contended McGee cleverly faked
insanity and was relying on his
past record as a phychopathic
case to escape punishment.
The Court of Criminal Appeals
affirmed the jury’s conviction of
McGee. The appeal court ruled
that even if McGee were medi-
cally insane, he could still be
convicted if he knew the differ-
ence between right and wrong.
WASHINGTON, July 31 (A)—
The senate interior committee
postponed a decision today on
whether it will go along with the
house in giving the states title to
oil-rich submerged lands off their
shores.
The committee met today but
took no action. Chairman O’Ma-
honey (D-Wyo) said beyond a
decision to make a bill passed
by the house yesterday the or-
der of business at its next meet-
ing either Aug. 7 or 14.
The committee, he said, has
several possibilities including:
To amend the house bill by
substituting one of two pending-
interim bills;
To make certain alterations to
the house bill or
Approve the house bill.
“But,” he said, “the chairman
wants his position fully under-
stood—the chairman feels that
the Walter (house) bill should
not be enacted.”
The house bill would give
states title to land three miles
seaward of their coast line ex-
cept for Texas which, because
of conditions under which it was
admitted to the union, likely
would get title to 10 %2 miles out.
O’Mahoney asserted that un-
der language in the house bill
congress would be approv-
ing in advance any future claims
by the states to larger areas.
in temperature.
Truman Expected to
Sign Controls Bill,
But May Criticize It
WASHINGTON, July 31 (A) — President Truman’s key stabili-
zation aides reportedly have advised him to sign the new economic
controls bill today — and also to blast it as inadequate to curb
inflation.--
representing all
ADVANCE HEADQUARTERS,
Korea, July 31. (AP)—Armistich
negotiators argued stubbornly for
an hour and 34 minutes today on
where to draw the cease-fire line
in Korea without getting any
closei’ together.
It was the fifth successive day
United Nations and Communist
delegations devoted to the buffer
zone issue. The announced result
of each session was the same: No
progress.
“The area of disagreement has
neither broadened or narrowed,”
an official U. N. spokesman said.
The Reds want U. N. forces to
abandon their present battle line
and pull back to the 38th parallel.
Delegates meet again at 11 a.m
Wednesday (7 p.m. Tuesday CST)
in their 16th session for another
try at breaking the deadlock.
“There was no indication of a
compromise to me today,” com-
mented the briefing officer, Brig.
Gen. William P. Nuckols. “On
the other hand, as you know, a
position can be adjusted very
quickly. That is neither optimistic
nor pessimistic.”
Wen’ by Russians
WASHINGTON, July 31 (P) — A former Russian General testi-
fied today that in the early 1930’s the head of Soviet intelligence
referred to Owen Lattimore and Joseph Barnes as “our men.”
--Alexander Barmine, head of
---------------------------------- the Russian unit of the state de-
partment’s Voice of America,
Lake level, 616.47 feet; tem-
perature of the water, 79; baro-
metric pressure, 30.04 steady.
Winds east-southeast 10 mph to-
day and Wednesday, light vari-
able tonight. Fair weather. High
today, 97, low tonight, 76, high
Wednesday, 98.
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INDUSTRIES NEED nearness
of raw materials, markets, and
suppliers, availability of power
and adequate transportation fa-
cilities, says the American Soci-
ety of Planning officials.
When those things are avail-
able, these things are necessary
in a community to attract indus-
try:
1. A clean general appearance
with a good police and health
record. Generally, the record of
job absenteeism can be expected
to be lower in such cities and
plants and grounds better min-
tained.
2. An aggressive town spirit,
in which townspeople are enter-
ing in doing things for their
community.
3. A local government that is
alert, progressive and business-
like. Industry also prefers cities
with balanced budgets and a
comparative low debt per capita,
but with a reputation for good
municipal facilities.
4. A good educational system
with an adequate, well equipped
library, as well as other cultural
facilities.
full power from the state boun-
daries out to the edge of the con-
tinental shelf. That is where the
sea bottom falls off steeply,
forming the oceanic deeps. The
continental shelf is narrow, in
some places, runs out 250 miles
or more in others.
Gives the federal government
the right to lease submerged
lands beyond state ownership.
Royalties collected by the fed-
eral government from exploita-
tion of its submerged lands
would be earmarked, 3712 per
cent for the coastal states, and
the rest for retirement of the
national debt.
The senate interior committee
has before it similar legislation,
a quit claim bill.
Texas, California and Louis-
iana have for years leased out
oil production rights on sub-
merged coastal lands. They have
collected millions in royalties.
Some years ago, the federal
government stepped in with a
claim to the underwater coastal
shelf.
The supreme court has ruled
the federal government has par-
amount rights and full dominion
over the submerged lands.
Congress, the court said, could
decide the question of owner-
ship.
health services
The official U. N. communique
said:
“There was no perceptible
change in the expressed view-
points of the two delegations” in
Tuesday’s sessions.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy am-
plified the Allied position, the
announcement said, trying to
show “the mutual benefit to be
derived from acceptance of this
view.”
North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam II
replied by repeating “his previ-
ously stated stand.”
The U. N. wants the demili-
tarized zone along present battle
lines, cutting across North Korea
for more than 80 miles. The Reds
want a buffer zone centered on
the 38th parallel, pre-war political
dividing line of North and South
Korea.
Allied Planes Hammer Reds
EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUAR-
TERS, Korea, July 31 (A3)—Allied
warplanes swept through low
clouds today and hammered Red
positions in the “iron triangle” on
the western front of Korea as
ground fighting again dwindled
to patrol activity.
The primary target was the
area around Pyonggang, northern
Gentle to moderate
Senate Committee Delays Action
On House-Approved Tidelands Bill Armistice Signed
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FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH, July 31 (P)—
Cattle 4,000; calves 2,300; steady.
Good and choice slaughter steers
and yearlings $30 to $34.50; com-
mon to medium $24 to $30; beef
cows $21.50 to $27.50; good and
choice slaughter calves $30 to $33;
common to medium $22 to $29;
Stockers $25 to $37; stocker cows
$20 to $25.50; medium Co choice
stocker yearlings $26 to $33;
stocker and feeder steers $24 to
$31.
Hogs 700; steady; choice 180-
270 lb. butchers $22.75 to $23.
Sheep 2,600; steady; good and
choice slaughter spring lambs $30;
good shorn slaughter spring
lambs $26; utility to good aged
slaughter wethers $12.50 to $16;
cull to good aged slaughter ewes
$11 to $14; spring feeder lambs
$27 to $29; shorn feeder yearlings
$22 to $25.
“That is buying a pig in a
poke,” he said.
While the house bill has not
yet reached the senate, O’Maho-
ney said he assumes it will be
referred to his committee, a po-
sition confirmed by the senate
parliamentarian.
But yesterday’s 265 to 109 roll
call decision by the house is still
far from becoming law. It must
be acted upon by the senate, and,
if passed there, would go on to
President Truman.
The president in 1946 vetoed
a similar bill, and congress did
not muster enough strength to
override the veto.
The states and the government
have for years disputed owner-
ship of the submerged lands.
Besides oil, they may contain al-
most any of the other riches of
dry land, such as coal, iron, cop-
per.
The bill passed by the house
makes these main provisions:
Gives coastal states, except
Texas, title to land for three
miles out to sea. Texas gets
title to 10 12 miles out because
the terms under which she was
admitted to the union specified
that her boundaries ran out that
far.
Gives states ownership of oil
and other minerals under their
submerged lands.
The federal government gets
cent of the May 19 level or to
parity, whichever was higher.
Continue without any basic
change the present program cov-
ering allocation of scarce essen-
tial materials.
Create a small defense plants
administration to aid small com-
panies obtain defense contracts.
Extend the wage control pro-
gram without any basic revision
of the present law.
Continue import controls on
fats and oils, and bring dairy
products under certain controls.
Permit payment of government
subsidies to encourage output of
raw and non-processed non-farm
commodities by high cost pro-
ducers.
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pectation was that Mr. Truman
will approve the bill by mid-
night, when the present law ex-
pires.
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bill they sent to the White
House yesterday a good one and
said the president has no justifi-
cation for complaint. Otners crit-
icized it and declared more leg-
islation will be needed to check
inflation.
The united labor policy com-
mittee, representing most of or-
ganized labor, blasted the meas-
ure as a “callous betrayal of the
consumers” and said it would
back Mr. Truman if he vetoes it.
The measure provides for con-
tinuing wage, price, rent, con-
sumer credit and defense pro-
duction controls through next
June, but in some cases it eases
curbs the president wanted tight-
ened or unchanged. It lacks most
of the additional anti-inflation
The house approved the bill
powers the president requested,
yesterday 294 to 80. Senate pas-
sage was by voice vote last Fri-
day.
Price Director Michael V. Di-
Salle reportedly has told Mr. Tru-
man it appears he has no choice
but to sign the bill—that letting
controls lapse would cause chaos
in the defense production pro-
gram and perhaps send prices
soaring.
Other major provisions:
Okay the 10 per cent beef price
rollback already placed in effect,
but bar the two more 4%2 per
cent cutbacks OPS had planned.
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FARMERS’ TOWN—This is part of 10,000 bushels of wheat farmers have “stored” on the
middle of a street in Hamilton, Mo. Ray Merre II of the Missouri Farmers Association asked
permission for growers to use the street after storage facilities were filled. Dr. John H. Wool-
sey, the mayor, said Hamilton is a “farmer’s to wn,” and that if a box car shortage delayed
shipping their wheat they could dump it in th e main street for awhile. (AP Wirephoto)
7. Adequate recreational facil-
ities and places of congregation
where people can play or visit
together.
8. Suitable housing at costs
which employes can afford.
9. Good shopping places.
10. A local paper that does a
good job of keeping people in-
formed, especially on local and
nearby news. This indicates that
people are interested in their
own community.
Every live town could well
adopt this program of objectives.
An Irish philosopher said, "Sin-
gle misfortunes never come alone
and the greatest of all possible
misfortunes is generally followed
by a greater.
An Irishman, selling window
sashes, declared, “These sashes
will last you forever; and, after
that, if you have no further use
for them, you can sell them as
old iron.”
And everyone will agree with
the Irishman who said, “It’s a
great comfort to be alone—espe-
cially when your sweetheart is
with you.”
TOWN—
= TOPICS
_— By A. MORTON SMITH--
THE LARGEST COTTON crop
I in 11 years is in prospect for
Cooke county this year, accord-
ing to present crop conditions
and reports.
There are some 35,000 acres in
cotton this year and at present,
the yield is expected to be nor-
mal, or about 175 pounds per
acre. On this basis, a crop of
12,250 bales is anticipated, as
compared with 3,500 bales last
year from 10,000 acres which
weathered the extreme wet pe-
riod from June to September.
The last crop of comparable
size was the 1940 yield of 15,019
bales. The largest crop Cooke
county ever had was in 1912
when 37,924 bales were realized
from about 110,000 of the coun-
ty’s 147,389 acres of crop land.
At that time there were 23 gins
in the county and now there are
only four. Thus the gins in 1951
will have much more work to do
than the 23 gins did a generation
ago. In the Rio Grande valley,
the biggest ginning week in his-
tory is predicted this week. Some
of our gins may have their big-
gest weeks this fall.
There is still time for the crop
to be reduced by weather condi-
tions and insects, but the crop
undoubtedly will be the biggest
in a number of years. The first
bale should be due in three
weeks or thereabouts.
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Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 289, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 31, 1951, newspaper, July 31, 1951; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1538425/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cooke County Library.