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Truman Back
In Washington
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. —
President Truman returned today
from a three-week Florida vaca-
tion. looking fit and rested for the
weeks of hard work ahead of him.
His plane, the Independence,
landed at National Airport about
11:30 a m (CST) after a three
hour, 46 minute flight from Key
West.
A large crowd, including several
cabinet members and other govern-
"ment officials, turned out to greet
him. He waved cheerfully as he
started to leave the plane.
He was in fighting trim—except
for the waistline—to do battle in
O’Dwyer and
Ex-Texan Wed,
Board Yacht
STUART. Fla. Dec. 20 Fl-
Mayor William O’Dwyer of New
York, tanned and happy, was mar-
ried today to radiant Elizabeth
Sloan Simpson in a simple cere-
mony at St. Joseph's Catholic
Church.
A rainbow arched in the sky as
the couple entered the flower-be-
decked wooden church for the
rites. Rainclouds hovered near the
town.
Congress for his "Fair Deal" and
stump for it in the 1950 congres-
sional elections.
Tanned, relaxed and cheerful,
he looked in good health in spite
of the “bay window" which ap-
parently was of less concern to
him than to his physician. Brig
General Wallace H. Graham.
Mr. Truman is going down the
line in his "state of the union"
message for virtually every meas-
ure Congress denied him last year.
The measures include civil rights
proposals—topped by the Fair
Employment Practices bill—the na-
tional health program, expanded
social security and additional pow-
er and reclamation projects, among
others.
Aides emphasized there will be
no “turning back" from the course
he advocated in his 1948 speech-
making campaign and that he is
ready to take the stump again next
year to help elect candidates to
Congress who think along his lines.
Final decisions are yet to be
made on whether to seek elimina-
tion of wartime excise taxes and
to advocate higher taxes on prof-
its to offset them and attempt
to balance the budget for the fis-
cal year starting next July 1.
Mr. Truman has called a full-
scale cabinet session at the White
House for 9 a. m. (CST) Thursday
to discuss these and other prob-
lems.
,
9
The Rev Timothy J. Geary per-
formed the ceremony which he
described as "very simple and
very beautiful.”
and
8 MINUTES
The ceremony lasted
Minutes.
eight
Both O'Dwyer and his bride were
deeply moved and exchanged
vows in voices hardly above a
whisper.
O'Dwyer's voice could not be
heard in the first row as he
answered after Father Geary, "I,
William O’Dwyer, take thee. Eliza-
beth Sloan Simpson, for better or
worse, richer or poorer, in sick-
ness and in health, until death do
dis part.-
Miss Simpson repeated the same
words in a slightly firmer voice.
She stood erect and looked at the
priest as he blessed the ring, first
in Latin, then in English.
Best Man David Martin, gen-
eral manager of the New York
Athletic Club, handed the ring to
O'Dwyer. Miss Simpson turned
and the ring was placed on her
Stores Brace
For Yule Rush
Abilene stores and offices today
prepared for the final Christmas
tush—and a well - earned holiday.
Retail stores will remain open
until 7 p. m. each night until
Christmas Eve, according to Jack
Fulwiler. chairman of the Cham-
ber of Commerce Retail Trade
Committee.
Christmas Eve the stores will
close at- 5 p. m. and will remain,
closed through Monday. The stores
will also close Monday, Jan. 2.
Fulwiler said.
Windows in the Post Office will
remain open each night as long
as there are persons in the lobby
Fire Razes
Lumber Bins
ift Deluge
JOSEPH STALIN
LONDON, Dec. 20. (P—The big-1i cels bearing the tag “Happy one for each birthday—from Com-
gest giveaway jackpot program in birthday, dear comrade" i munist East Germany.
Besides, there will be a veritable
11 th use for much or what he gets. A
Stalin, overlord of world com- more unwieldy gilts - all the way man of 70 for instance would be
munism. hits the jackpot tomor- from motorcycles to airplanes, bevond plamin with the
row when he reaches the age of Take an average figure of $5 per oust nevo Italian
70. How much the take in birthday gift — that would be cheap for a carmueists nr , moaer
presents is worth is anybody's birthday gift for Stalin - and the Some tom Amah C — Rar
guess Tons and tons of gifts - so jackpot is worth more than 85 mil-saeme breed or a motoreyee
many that not in centuries could bon. dfroM Ph ague or 7s en
one man use them up — descended With the gifts come all sorts of andid P b Tide i a carriage
on Moscow from the Communist honors, pledges of special work, I takin %.a 5 88' 8
world. affirmations of loyalty and devo-from soua.
Reports reaching London lion, endearing greetings in the Presumably much of what Sta-
through the Soviet Monitor and familiar Communist "pattern. lin is given will be redistributed,
other channels indicate that there Long freight trains hauled gifts Even this will take a long time,
will be more than one million par- into Moscow There were 70 cars-
history is on today, with Russia's
Joseph Stalin on the receiving end. flood of big crates containing the
Poets, musicians
and play-
finger.
She smiled dazzlingly. They
awhispered to each other something
one could hear.
Father Geary told O'Dwyer:
“Repeat after me-with this ring
1 thee wed “
NO KISS
No kiss was exchanged inside
the church
The couple turned, linked arms
and walked slowly down the aisle,
nodding to friends and shook
hands with one guest
They emerged from the church
gand faced a bombardment of
photographers' flashbulbs
A crowd of about 400 persons
outside the church pressed close
around the couple. News and
newsreel photographers pleaded
the crowd to give them room
A townswoman remarked: “I'll
bet they're glad they’re not in
New York where they would be
really crowded"
The newlyweds entered a car.
drove through the center of town
|o Municipal Docks and boarded
the yacht Almar II for an 8-day
honeymoon cruise
YACHT LEAVES
The yacht was free of the dock
at 7 50 a.m., only 20 minutes after
the ceremony began in St. Jo-
seph's Church
ft sailed slowly northward. It
was lost to sight “in about 10
minutes.
Back at the church the crowd
scattered to discuss the day's
•event
O'Dwyer is 59 and his Texas-
born bride 33,
mailing gifts, according to Eu-
gene Pearce, superintendent of
mails The Post Office will be
open until 8 p m. Christmas Eve.
Offices in the Taylor County
Courthouse will he closed both
Saturday and Sunday, County
Judge Walter Pope Jr., said Mon-
dav night
The county offices will close at
5 p. m. Friday and employes will
not return to work until Tuesday
morning, Dec. 27
Christmas holidays for city hall
employes have not yet been set
City Manager Boyd J McDaniel
was out of town this morning.
Price Trend Down
NEW YORK, Dec 20. <'V
• lightly lower price trend today in
the stock market put the damper
on trading activity.
THE WEATHER
V. 8. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY: Partly
cloudy and mild today and tonight
Wednesday, partly cloudy to cloudy
_uvith light showers; colder is the late
Cfternoon High temperature 75, low to-
night 55.
WEST TEXAS Much colder with snow
is Panhandle Lowest temperatures 10-
20 in Panhandle tonight Partly cloudy
and mild this afternoon. Cloudy and
colder with scattered showers Wednes-
day and in South Plains and Kl Paso
area tonight Snow continuing in Pan-
handle and spreading into upper South .
Plains Wednesday Advise stockmen
EAST TEXAS: Considerable cloudiness |
and warmer in north portion this aft-
ernoon A few showers tonight and |
Wednesday Colder west and extreme
north Wednesday except much colder
with snow flurries in upper and Red
River Valley late tonight and Wednes
. May Fresh southeasterly winds on the
coast
Maximum temperature for 24 hours
ending at 6.30 am 71
Minimum temperature for 24 hours
ending et 6:30 a.m.: 60.
TEMPERATURES
won. r. ■. * TUES.
A. M.
,1s Midnight Noon
• Barometer reading at 12:30 p.m
Relative humidity as 12:30 p.m.
- Fire, caused by burning trash in
a nearby alley, destroyed one
lumber - filled warehouse and part
of another last night at the South
Texas Lumber Co., 501 Sycamore
St.
C. M Prater, manager, said he
could make no estimate of the
damage this morning. He ex-
plained that damage figures would
not be available until a complete
inspection is made of the burned
property However, the loss is cov-
ered by insurance, he said
Fireman Weldon J. Caffey, 402
Cedar St , who was overcome by
smoke while battling the three-
alarm blaze, was to be released
from St. Ann Hospital today. Ef-
forts to revive with an inhalator at
the scene of the fire were futile
Flames were discovered by a
passing motorist, T. J. Ward,
about 6:20 p.m. The fire was
brought under control by 7:30 p.m.
Eight trucks from the four local
fire stations were alerted to fight
the blaze.
Fairly brisk winds kept the
flames from spreading to a frame
bouse just a few feet south of the ,
lumber yard.
Approximately 800 telephones
were put out of commission by the
fire. Telephone company repair
employes worked all night but Bill
Yeatts, manager of Southwestern
Bell Telephone Co. here, said it
would be this afternoon before all
lines were back in working order
Hundreds of people who crowded
the streets near the fire hindered
the efforts of firemen in fighting
FIRE CASUALTY—Two firemen (upper photo) attempt to revive with an inhaler Fire-
man Weldon J. Caffey after he was overcome by smoke at a fire at the South Texas Lum-
ber Co.. 501 Sycamore St, last night. Caffey, who lives at 420 Cedar St. was to be re-
leased from St. Ann Hospital this morning Lower Tight photo shows the three-alarm blaze
at its height. (Staff photos by Clint Kapus). ________________________________________
wrights have turned out special
birthday works in many lan-
guages Paintings have been sent
from Communists in Britain.
France and Sweden.
Czechoslovakia's Communists v
have outdone themselves. Besides
thousands of gifts, the Czech Com-
munists have attempted to get
nine million signatures on a birth-
day greeting to Stalin. They are
unveiling two huge statues to him.
in Bratislava and Prague. The
highest mountain in Czechoslova-
kia. 8,737-foot Mount Gerlachovka,
is being renamed “Mount Stalin."
Bulgaria also sent carloads.
Among the gifts was a set of books
— 100 volumes — filled with signa-
tures of hundreds of thousands of
Bulgarians.
There was one mystery gift.
Moscow Radio has announced the
gift of a headdress of an honorary
Indian chief It didn’t say what
tribe or even what country it was
from.
And another gift—from Romania
— smacked of Hollywoodism. It is
a radio. When it is turned to Radio
Moscow — what else? — a picture
of Stalin lights up.
Fisher Well
Logs Show
ROTAN. Dec 20. (RNS)—Gem
Oil Co. No I M Medrano, Fisher
County wildcat eight miles west of
Rotan, has logged a show in the
Ellenburger.
Operator took a drillstem test
to total depth of 6.958 feet and
recovered 20 feet of free oil and
90 feet of oil and gas cut mud
the blaze Traffic was snarled up Bottom hole pressure was 1373
No water was en-
and he was taken to the hospital.
TRASH FIRE BLAMED . ______
The blaze started from trash for several blocks around the lum- pounds,
burning in the alley east of the ber yard. countered,
lumber yard. Fire Marshal Len A | _ , " Top of the formation has not
Blackwood said The two buildings Ariar Raunn hannen been reported Operator took a 10
| foot core Monday, and then took
the drillstem test.
in the southeast corner of the
yard were ablate by the time fire-
men arrived.
Actor Bound, Gagged
in Actress' Home
FOUND FRIGHTENED, UNHARMED
Auto Thief Accidentally
Kidnaps Victim of Polio
37 FIRMS CLEAN CLOTHING
Abilene Dry Cleaners
Are Goodfellows All!
Abilene’s dry cleaning establish-
ments—all 37 of them—have been
Goodfellows this season.
They have cleaned garments by
the dozens to be distributed from
the Salvation Army to Abilene’s
underprivileged.
"So far as we know, every dry
cleaning place in Abilene has co-
operated with the Goodfellows,”
Theron Guffey, spokesman for
the cleaners, said
Soiled and wrinkled clothing by
the armloads has been carried by
Abilene people who wanted to put
It in the Goodfellow Christmas
box.
Co. American Cleaners, Art's
Tailors, Bantau’s Dry Cleaning
Works. Botkin Cleaners, Cloud's
Cleaners. Courtesy Cleaners,
Crown Cleaners & Dyers. Crump
Cleaners, Chet Davis Cleaners, De-
Luxe Cleaners. Economy Cleaners.
Elite Cleaners. Elmwood Cleaners,
Expert Cleaners and Hatters.
Fashion Cleaners. Grimes Clean-
ers, Hanks Cleaners, J & L Clean-
ers. Jolly Cleaners. Charles H.
Keith Cleaners & Hatters, Little
City Cleaners, Master Cleaners,
Model Cleaners. Modern Cleaners.
Some articles of clothing are
still being cleaned in several es-
tablishments, but it ia expected
that it will all be finished by Wed-
nesday afternoon.
"We appreciate the work these
people have done in cooperation
with the Goodfellows,” Nib Shaw,
Goodfellows chairman, said.
"Their work has been on a volun-
tary basis."
The cleaners are ACC Cleaners.
Abilene Laundry & Dry Cleaning
Goodfellows' Fund
Passes $3,000 Mark
Morris Cleaners, Neely - Barnes
Cleaners, Osborne’s Cleaners,
Paramount Tailors & Hatters.
Peerless Cleaners, Service Clean-
NEW YORK. Dec. 20. WP—Robert
Wilcox, motion picture actor, was
found bound and gagged today in
the apartment of Actress Diana
Barrymore Police said he was tied
up by two men who ransacked the
apartment.
Police Mid Wilcox told them he
was alone in the apartment when
two men appeared at the door at
9.30 a m and said they warned
to leave flowers for Miss Barry-
more, who ia confined to Roosevelt
hospital from the / feets of a
fan
Wilcox said he told the men the
daughter of the late John Barry-
more was in the hospital but the
men insisted on leaving the flow-
ers.
Taken from the apartment, the
police said, were a mink coat, a
silver fox scarf, a suitcase and
about $50 in silver.
To Sell City Bonds
DALLAS. Dec 20. '* - The City
of Dallas is expected to sell more
than $20,000,000 in municipal bonds
in the first nine months of 1950 for |
improvements such as streets |
ers. Supreme Cleaners & Laundry,
Templeton Cleaners, University
Cleaners Vogue Cleaners, snd sewers and water facilities. It was
Zenith Cleaners & Dyers.
disclosed today.
ENCHANTING HOME DECORATIONS
Grove Street's Unofficial
Title: ‘Santa Claus Lane'
Contributions to the Abilene ___, ... ...
Goodfellows has climbed past the one of the ne pretti
$3,000 mark. Total in the fund to lorated streets in Abilene,
date is $3,071.98
Most recent donors were listed
as "Mrs. I. B. H." who gave $10
and the Grape-Way Club which
gave $2.
All letters of request for Good-
fellow help must be turned in by
Want to take a trip down Santa I large candle erected near the en-
Claus Lane? trance is an eye-catcher At anoth-
Then drive out to Grove Street er home the air conditioner ad
joined to a window at the front
of the house has taken on the ap-
pearance of a large, colorful
Christmas package
ENCHANTING LOOK
Wednesday. After that time re-
quests cannot be checked
An estimated 250 families will
be aided at Christmas this year.
de-
The two-block street has not
been officially designated Santa
Claus Lane, but it is the only
one entered in the Chamber of
Commerce’s Santa Claus contest
and so automatically receives the
title.
Almost every house or yard had
been decorated by Tuesday and It
is expected that all will be dressed
in Yule garb by Christmas Eve
Originality is shown in many of
” Goodfellow packages will be
57. livered Saturday, Christmas Eve. the decorations. At one home the
Cedar boughs, wreaths and
lights galore give the entire afreet
that enchanting Santa Claus Lane
look.
Monday was the last day for
making entries In the Chamber of
Commerce's Yule lighting and dec-
orating contests, Merchandise
prizes are to be given for the best
too LIGHTING, A as, aol. 2,
It was not known Tuesday
whether casing would be set, or
whether more cores would be
taken for purposes of exploring
further into the formation.
Several light shows have been
reported up the hole, but none
have indicated commercial pos-
sibilities.
Location of the well is 660 feet
from the south and west lines of
the northwest quarter of Section
104, Block 2, H&TC Survey.
NEW YORK. Dec. 20. • —
Frightened but unharmed a 42-
year-old polio invalid was found
last night seven hours after she
was kidnaped accidentally.
Throughout an intensive, after-
noon - long police hunt, she had
sat alone and virtually helpless in
the back seat of an abandoned
stolen car.
She had been whisked away in
the car about noon yesterday by
a thief who evidently had not seen
her, half - hidden by a pile of
Christmas merchandise in the
rear. She is only four feet, ten
inches tall.
Police said the thief apparently
abandoned the car after discover-
ing hie human cargo and becom-
ing fearful of a kidnaping charge.
The woman, Esther Silverman.
partially paralyzed and her speech
impaired by an attack of polio in
her childhood, was too upset to
give details of her ordeal.
stammered repeatedly
“Where’s my sister?"
The sister, Jean Silverman.
the
a
door-to-door saleswoman, said she
had left her crippled sister in the
back seat of her sedan while she
was making a call m Brooklyn.
She had left the ignition key in
the switch.
As she started back toward the
car, she said she saw a man
jump into the front seat and speed
away, apparently not knowing her
sister was sitting amid the heaps
of merchandise in the back.
Police found the car after dark
about eight blocks from where it
had been stolen. Nothing had been
taken from the car.
Daughter Born to
Washington Scribe
It's a daughter. Christy, for the
Lethe Carpenters in Washington
The mother is better known to
The Reporter - News readers as
Elizabeth Carpenter. As Washing*
ton correspondent for The Report-
er-News, her by-line is familiar
to readers throughout West Central
Texas.
The father, also a top Washing-
ton newspaperman, reports the
mother and child are doing well. I night
The Carpenters also have a son
Scott, who is 3 years old.
Checks to Teachers
Before Christmas
Snow Expected to
Strike Panhandle
By the Associated Press I reau said its reports included San
I Antonio 02 of an Inch. Victoria and
Winter is expected to return to Austin .01 1Ix) traces at Dallas and
West Texas tonight and reach into Lufkin
parts of East Texas tomorrow
The Weather Bureau, warning of Mercury to Drop
"much colder with snow in Pan-1 7 , P
handle," urged that stockmen be Here Wednesday
advised of the new norther
The Dallas Weather Bureau said
the cold wave should hit the Pan
I handle late this afternoon or early
tonight
The norther, which ends a long
spell of mild, wet weather, was ex-
| pected to drop temperatures to 10-
to 20 degrees in the Panhandle to-
The show will continue in the
Panhandle through the night and
spread tomorrow into the upper
South Plains, the Weather Bureau
said
The norther is expected to bring
snow flurries to the upper Red Riv-
er Valley late tonight and tomor-
row The full force of the cold wave
is expected to hit west and extreme
north portions of East Texas to-
The December payroll for Abi-
lene City Schools was approved
by the Board of Trustees Tuesday
so that teachers may receive
them before Christmas.
The board changed its meeting _ Shirt-sleeve weather continued in
morrow
SHIRT-SLEEVES TODAY
time to 7.20 M^r. the, second The Weather Bureau cited this
and fourth Mondays of each example of what the cold wave
month. was doing as it moved through
Kansas this morning At 8 30 am
the temperature at Dodge City.
Kans., was 29 At Wichita, Kans.
SHOPPING
U DAYS TILL
CHRjSTMAS
AR 400
The milkmen and the postman
Stop at your house each day;
Have • remembrance for them-
It's the Merry Christmas way!
the reading at the same hour was
62.
Heavy fog which bedevilled air
and ship traffic in much of Texas
earlier this week was confined this
morning to the upper coast areas of
Houston Beaumont, Galveston and
Port Arthur. Even there the mist
blanket was breaking up by mid-
morning
Despite the generally wet sort of
weather there was virtually no
| rain in Texas in the It hours end-
ins at 6.30 a.m. The Weather Bu-
Texas Cotton
Suit Delayed
WASHINGTON, Dec 20. IB —
Agreement was reached today in
federal court to try early next
year the suit of 10 Texas farmers
to block the new cotton control
program in their state
Counsel for the growers also
‘ agreed to delay at least until Jan.
13 their attempt to obtain a court
injunction suspending the cotton
acreage program in Texas until
the suit can be tried on its merits.
The case was called up by Judge
Charles F. McLaughlin to consider
a motion by the grower's counsel
that the quotas, as announced by
the Agriculture Department, be
suspended
Shortly after the hearing opened.
Judge McLaughlin called a recess
so attorneys for both sides could
work out an agreement for a trial
date.
Under terms of the agreement,
disclosed by Judge McLaughlin.
Agriculture Department attorneys
have until Jan. 13 to file an an-
swer to the farmers’ charges that
the new acreage quota program
deprives them of a fair share of
the allotment assigned to Texas.
Parley Slated to
Study Cattle Disease
MEXICO CITY. Dec 20 - A
world conference to study means
of fighting the foot and mouth
disease in cattle will he held in
Mexico about the middle of next
year.
The government announced last
night it had sent Invitations to
countries suffering from the dis-
ease The conference will be
technical and most delegates are
Colder weather is not expected .
to reach Abilene before late1”*** * * veterinarians.
Wednesday afternoon. C. E Sitch-
ler. local weather observer at the Cash Truck Missing
U. S Weather Bureau said this sash, Iruck Missing
morning Following Burglary
Light showers are forecast for
) Wednesday The mercury will sink BROWNWOOD. Dec 20 (—The
to the 20-degree mark Wednesday: Ball and Ball Motor Co across the
night he Mid street from the county jail here
Continued mild and partly I was broken into last night by a
cloudy weather is the Abilene out- safecracker who escaped with
look for today and tonight about $42.
High temperature expected for Brown County Sheriff Otis F.
this afternoon is 75 degrees and Shaw said a three-quarter ton
low for tonight, 55 High Monday truck parked on the courthouse
was 71 degrees and low Monday square near the motor firm also 15
night. 80. I missing.
CAREFUL HOLIDAY DRIVING
URGED BY PATROL CAPTAIN
A plea lor careful driving during the coming holiday sea-
son was voiced today by Capt. Harry Hutchison of the Tex-
as Highway Patrol headquarters in Abilene
Noting that bad weather may be a factor during the
Christmas-New Year week, Capt. Hutchison asked that
motorists heed traffic laws and regulations especially dur-
ing the period. .
The much-increased traffic volume will require area high-
way patrolmen to perform yeoman duty in watching the
highways and taking care of traffic problems, Capt. Hutch-
ison said. The force will be working at full strength and
overtime, the officer said.
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