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FAIR,
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Vol LXXI, NO. 59
The Abilene
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"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
EVENING
FINAL
Associated Press (AP)
ABILENE, TEXAS TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1951— EIGHTEEN PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
We’ll ’Clobber’ Reds If
alks
ail. Van Fleet Say
Airmen Hit WOMAN FORCES HUSBAND
Pyongyang
TO BECOME LAWBREAKER
OUT OF THE DEEP—Firemen and rescuers haul out the tin-bottomed snub nosed skiff in
which three boys drowned at Lake Albany Monday night. The man with back to camera is
W’eldon Caffey, Abilene fireman. The man lifting the boat is unidentified. (Staff photos by
Clint Kapus) >
In Force
EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUAR-
TERS, Korea, Aug. 14. — Planes
struck the Red Korean capital of
Pyongyang today in one of the
heaviest air raids in weeks.
Maj. Gen. Frank E. Everest,
Fifth Air Force commander, said
the combined strike of Superforts,
jets and propeller driven fighters
was directed against the “pro-
gressively increasing” Communist
strength in the Pyongyang area.
Other planes and warships ham-
mered at supply routes steadily
used by the Reds to build up
their forces during armistice nego-
tiations.
U.N. troops seized a strategic
hill north of Hwachon on the cen-
tral front and warded off a small
Red counterattack. To the East Al-
lies were pushed back northeast of
Kumhwa by day - long attacks of
three grenade - throwing Red pla-
toons. Elsewhere action was re-
ported limited to patrol activity. .
The navy put on the biggest show
Monday.
SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 14. (A)— “There he is!"
With these words, a San Antonio woman plunked her
husband down on the sidewalk in front of their home and
asked Officer R. A. Cervantes to arrest him.
The woman had called for police help, complaining
her husband had been, drunk three weeks. She wanted
him in jail.
Cervantes said he couldn’t.arrest the man, since he was
in his own home, and—at the time—was not creating a
disturbance..
Without hesitating the housewife carried her husband
bodily out to the sidewalk. *
Cervantes arrested him,4
Importance of Naval, Air
Supremacy Snags Sessions
VIGIL ENDED—Graphic expressions of anxiety marked the faces of spectators on the shore
as the last body of three boys drowned in Lake Albany was found after midnight last night.
Staff Photographer Clint Kapus snapped this picture as a rescuer shouted “We found it!”
It was the body of Eddie Wayne Kennedy, 7. •
Cisco, Albany Rites
For 3 Drowned Youths
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First Guard
Unit Leaves
Hearst, 88
Succumbs
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. in California where he entertained
14. (—William Randolph Hearst, his guests on a scale of almost
the publisher, died today. He was
88.
undreamed of luxury.
He also had the famous 67,000
The man whose chain of Amer-acre estate, Wyntoon, on the Mc-
ican newspapers represented a Cloud River in Northern California:
$200,000,000 enterprise at its peak a $15 million art collection, ranch
holdings in Mexico, magazine pub-
lishing enterprises and motion pic-
ture ventures.
MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. 14 —
The two top Allied commanders
voiced confidence today that the
Eighth Army could withstand any
Red attack should the armistice
talks break off.
The talks are in a critical stage.
Today’s session bogged down in
argument over the importance of
Allied air and naval supremacy.
If cease-fire negotiations break
down, the United Nations ground
commander, Gen. James A. Van
Fleet, said his troops are ready
to “clobber” the Reds.
In the expressive battle talk of
the soldier, the word “cobbler”
means to administer a thorough
beating.
— In Tokyo Gen. Matthew B. Ridg-
way, U. N. supreme commander,
said the Reds have been steadily
building up and are in a materially
better position to attack than they
were when truce talks started Ju-
ly 10.
Van Fleet, commander of the
Eighth Army, commented:
“The military feels we would like |
By DICK ELAM
Reporter-News Staff Writer
ALBANY, Aug. 14. —Double fu-
neral services will be held here
at 4 p.m. Wednesday for two broth-
ers who drowned in Lake Albany-
Monday night when the boat in
which they were riding capsized
off the north shore.
Funeral for a third victim,
Charles Wood, 13, of Cisco, will
take place in Cisco at 2 p.m. Wed-
nesday. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. D. D Wood of Cisco.
Gilbert Kennedy, 13, and Eddie
Wayne Kennedy, 7. sons of Mr.
and Mrs. E. M. Kennedy of Al-
bany, and young Wood lost their
lives about 9 o’clock Monday night
while on a family outing, *
The boat in which they were rid-
ing with W. D. Ingle of Oklahoma
and his son, Billy, 12, overturned
about 25 feet from shore in water
15 to 18 feet deep.
Ingle and his son swam to shore
after family members heard the
boys’ screams and ran to help
John D. Arthur, owner of the
boat, and cousin of Wood, reached
the spot first and swam out to the
point the boat sank. Arthur said he
saw all three boys struggling in
the water before they went under.
Wood said Ingle was holding his
son, Charles, by the hair when he
reached the spot but lost him and
he sank.
Gilbert's body was removed
from the lake about 10:40 p.m. and
the body of Charles was found
about 10 minutes later. Eddie
Wayne’s body was recovered after
midnight.
Nearly 400 Abilene Guardsmen
will leave this week for two weeks’
annual training at Camp Polk. La.
About 250 more Guardsmen from
towns in a 75 - mile radius of Abi-
lene, parts of the Third Battalion,
142nd Infantry Regiment, will also
report to Camp Polk.
One officer and 10 men, mem-
bers of the 131st Field Artillery
Battalion, left Abilene by truck
Tuesday morning at 4:30 and will
arrive at Camp Polk Wednesday at
2 p. m. Another detachment, one
officer and 23 men, will leave at
4:15 a. m. Friday and arrive Sat-
urday at noon. An officer and 37
men will depart at 4:15 a. m. Sat-
urday and arrive Sunday noon.
The main body of the 131st will
entrain here at 9 p. m. Saturday
and arrive at Camp Polk at 3:05
p m. Sunday.
A total of 320 men, 30 officers
and 290 enlisted men, of the 131st
FA Bn., will go to Polk. This in-
cludes Headquarters and Head-
quarters Battery, Service, A, and
C Batteries, and the Medical De-
tachment of the 131st, in addition
to Battery B from Jacksboro. The
Jacksboro Battery includes an ad-
ditional three officers and 40 en-
listed men. :
Headquarters and Headquarters
Co., Third Battalion, 142nd Infan-
try Regiment, containing 47 men.
and 11 officers, and the Medical
Platoon, with one officer and sev-
en men, all Abilenians, will entrain
at 1:55 a. m. Sunday.
M Company from Stamford, with
two officers and 50 men, will come
to Abilene to board the train with
the Abilene Company of the 142nd.
Already on the train when it ar-
rives to pica up the Abilene contin-
gent will be members of Company
K from Sweetwater, made up of
five officers and 70 men.
Other companies of the 142nd
will go to Polk from San Angelo
and Ballinger.
succumbed in a coma at his home
here.
He had been in ill health for
some time and preiodically in re-
cent years there were reports that
he was dying, but his native
strength repeatedly returned “The
Chief” to active direction of his
papers.
Then yesterday Hearst sank into
a coma. He died at 9:50 a. m. to-
day.
Present at the death bed were
his five sons, William Randolph
Jr., publisher of the New York
Journal American; Randolph, pub-
lisher of the San Francisco Call-
Bulletin; David, publisher of the
Los Angeles Herald and Express;
Johnands George Hearst.
Also-present were Martin F Hu-
berth, chairman, and Richard E.
Berlin, president, of the Hearst
Corporation.
Hearst was one of the nation’s
most controversial figures in news-
paper editing and publishing On
one hand he was called a “yellow
journalist’’ and on the other, a gen-
ius.
Certainly it could be said that
his newspapers were never dull.
He was a great campaigner for or
Warden Held
By Convicts
POINT - OF - THE - MOUN-
TAIN, Utah, Aug. 14. WP—Three in-
mates of the state prison seized the
acting warden and a guard today
in the third outbreak of trouble at
the modern prison in three months.
A prison spokesman said three
segregation prisoners who had at-
tempted to escape last month, held
Weston E. Haslam, acting warden
since last Friday, and a, guard.
The trio demanded to see State
Highway Patrol Superintendent Jo-
seph E. Dudler, who was in charge
of the prison after a riot on May
20.
Armed state patrolmen and sher-
iff’s officers hurried to the prison,
15 miles south of Salt Lake City.
Blanket Deferment
Of Students to End
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. (—The
, „ - —. -—blanket deferment of college stu-
women’s suffrage, dents will end next Monday on
Executives of the Hearst papers, schedule, Selective Service said te-
as well as employes, knew him as day.
"The Chief." A businessman of | There definitely will be no ex-
great stature, he was also master tension of the deferment,” a spokes-
of the fabulous San Simeon Ranch man said if draft boards don’t
against causes. He fought public
utilities, battled governments, was
an uncompromising foe of Com-
munism. Equally, he was a great
champion of Americanism, he
fought for the eight-hour day and
to have the opportunity to meet
the Communists if they attack. It
would be a real clobber.
"I don’t know, of a better way tc
get it over faster.
Nominate Truman and We'll
Beat Him With Taft-Brewster
Bodies of Gilbert and Eddie
Wayne were found entangled in
trot lines, one of which had a 3-1b.
catfish on one of the hooks, Gil-
bert’s body bore several book
marks and rescuers believed he
bad become caught in the trotline
while trying to reach shore.
Grappling hooks were sent from
Albany and more rescue equip-
ment arrived later from the Abi-
lene Fire Department About 400 Ahilana Ride lay
people watched the rescue efforts ADIICIC DIGS TOT
in the moonlight.
The Rev. Joe P. Self, pastor of
the Albany Baptist Church, will of-
ficiate for rites for the Kennedy
boys at the church. Burial in the
Albany cemetery will be directed
CAA Region Offices
Several officials of the Civil Aero-
nautics Administration are in Abi-
lene today looking over the town’s
facilities as a possible site for the
West Texas regional office of CAA.
Abilene Chamber of Commerce
4P
__by Castleberry Funeral Home of
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. (P—Sen- shrugged his shoulders, grinned Albany
ator Brewster (R-Me) said today if and commented that “it’s a free Survivors of .
President Truman will make , it | world" ■ elude the parents: three Brothers;
clear he wants the Democratic | Tift, recarded as a leading can-R. E. Kennedy of Wichita Falls
presidential nomination the Repub- didate for the GOP nomination, j R Kennedy of Hale and Pvt
licans "will pick Senator Taft as said he hasn’t made up his mind Billy Kennedy Who P :
his opponent, finally whether he will run. How-four sisters. Mrs H N Hodges of
“If the Democrats will give us ever Mr Truman has .named Taft Kermit, Mrs. J. M. Arther of AI-1 The city is seeking to provide
Truman, the Republicans will beat as the man he would like to see bany, Dorthene and Janie Ken- office space for the organization
him with Taft.” Brewster declar-the Republicans nominate nedy, both of Albany; and a ma- downtown, Joe Cooley, Chamber of
ed in an interview. ! SPEAKS FOR SELF Iternal grandfather, R L. Hancock Commerce manager, revealed
Told about the statement, Taft “Senator Brewster is entitled to i of Los Angeles. Members of the City Com-
mission and the aviation commit-
and city officials have extended
an invitation to the CAA to move
their regional office from Midland
to Abilene.
WILLIAM R. HEARST
have reports as to the scholastic
standing or aptitude test scores of ‘
college men by the 20th, they can
start classifying those” men for
the draft on the 21st."
The deferment to/Aug. 20 was
granted to allow sufficient time,
after the end of school, for school
authorities to mail scholastic stand-
ings to the draft boards, and for
the educational testing service at
Princeton, N J. to send to the I
I boards all scores from the apti-
tude tests it administered through-
out the nation last spring. ,
| Local boards may use this in-
formation to decide whether a stu-
dent deserves deferment for anoth-
er year.
World War Danger
EVANSTON, III., Aug 14.0—De-
fense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson
said today the danger of a third
world war is “greater than ever"
and it can be averted only in build-
ing America's might.
THE WEATHER
ABILENE AND VICINITY—Fair today,
tonight and tomorrow High this after-
noon near 100 Low tonight, near TO.
WEST TEXAS: Generally fair this aft
ernoon, tonight and Wednesday. Not
much change In temperature.
EAST TEXAS: Generally fair with
continued high temperatures this after-
noon. tonight and Wednesday Moderate
mostly south winds on the coast.
High temperature for 24-hour period
ending 9:30 a.m., 96.
Low temperature for 24-hour period
ending 9:30 a m 72. _
TEMPERATURES
MON, P. M TUES, A. M.
97 .........1:30 ...... 78
96 ............2:30 .....78
79 Midnight Noon 95
Sunset last might 7 26; sunrise today
6:02: sunset tonight 7 25
Barometer reading at 12:30 p.m.; 28.25
Relative humidity at 12:30 p.m.; 29 %.
“Senator Brewster is entitled to | of Los Angeles,
his opinion but he is speaking for
himself, not me,” Taft said. ,.
Brewster’s proposal came after by Q.e ...
Monroe Sweetland, Oregon Demo- The family
eratic state chairman, said he had years ago. from Goldthwaite.
told Mr. Truman the latter’s name uouy was w ve
would be filed in the Oregon pres- brought from the Castleberry Fu-
idential primary next May. | neral Homa in Albany sometime
The primary is an open one. in Tuesday to the Thomas Funeral
which a candidate’s name may be Home in Cisco
entered without his consent Rites are to take place at 2
Sweetland said petitions already p. m Wednesday at the Nazarene
are being circulated to enter Sen--Church in Cisco, with the Rev D.
ators Douglas (D-IlD and Kefauv-M. Duke, pastor, officiating. Bur-
er (D.Tenn). i ial wiij be |n Cisco.
Asked about Mr. Truman’s re- Young Wood was born June 3
action to hit proposal. Sweetland 1938, In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma’,
said they President listened He His father, D D Wood, it em-
said in his opinion Mr. Truman is ployed by the Hickock Construc-
the “overwhelming" choice of Ore-tion Co of Cisco
gon Democrats for re-election Survivors include the parents.
Democratic National Committee 'one brother, Lee Wood of Midland,
strategy has been to collect all of four sisters, Mrs. T. G. Hull of
the Truman delegates possible, Merkel, Mrs. V. M. Tallett of
even though the President might Cisco, Mrs. Bill Sargent of Okla-
decide at the last minute not to homa City, and Mrs. Chester Ames
seek the nomination
E. M. Kennedy, father of the
youngsters, is employed in Albany
/ the D. L Rose Trucking Co.
moved to Albany six
Young Wood's body was to be
tee of the Chamber conferred Mon-
day on the subject of locating of-
fice space and bringing CAA of-
ficls,s here today
The office, if located here, would
employ 12 or more persons.
Ballinger Lad Joins
Sister in Folio Ward
A Ballinger boy, Charles O’Neal,
son of Mr. and Mra. Oacar O’Neal.
Monday joined his sister, 3. In the
polio ward at Hendrick Memorial
of Chino, Calif.
Hospital. V
His sister, Lela O’Neal, of Bal-
linger, has been s polio patient
here since Aug. 9. the hospital
’ An Odessa youth. Harold Smith,
22, also w a s admitted
yesterday as a polio patient. Mon-
day’s admission raised to 20 the
number of polio patients.
sprinkled with such words as “ir-
responsible,” "Belligerent," ‘abu-
sive,” and “intolerable.”
Nuckols said Joy, in a one-hour
and six-minute reply, emphasized
air and naval power in an effort
to convince the Reds of the rea-
sonableness of the U. N. pro-
posals for a demilitarized zone
along approximately the present
battle lines.
Joy, head of the U. N. delega-
tion. pointed out that the U. N.
would have to relinquish, its air
and sea supremacy in the event of
an armistice. Therefore, he said,
U. N. ground forces would have
to be left in positions that could be
defended.
More Mer
Than Casl
In Europe
"The enemy is hurting. He is in
bad shape He needs peace.”
Van Fleet’s opinion of the abil-
ity of the Eighth Army to meet a
Red onslaught coincided with views
expressed by Ridgway, when the
top Allied commander told of the
Red buildup.
NAM UNSHAKABLE
At Kaesong. Just before negotia-
tors adjourned until Wednesday,
North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam II. top
Red envoy, wound up Tuesday’s
two-hour and 40-minute session by
announcing the Red demand for a
truce on the old political boundary
line is unshakable.
It was the demilitarized zo ne
deadlock which generated the argu-
ment at Kaesong over U. N. air
and navy might.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy. head
of the U. N. delegation, told the
Reds planes and warships "are
prosecuting a war behind your
front lines which is not duplicated
behind our lines.”
A U. N. spokesman said this was
a reply to a one-hour and 13-min-
ute attack by General Nam at-
tempting to “discredit the inde-
pendent effectiveness of air and
naval power which the U. N. com-
mand would relinquish in an arm-
istice”
‘NAM REVERSES SELF
In one breath he added the North
Korean Reds would run UN troops
out of Korea except for Allied
planes and warships.
A spokesman, Brig. Gen. Wil-
liam P. Nuckols, who attended the
session, said Nam’s speech was
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 'Jl—Eu-
rope’s major defense problem is
money, not manpower, the House
Foreign Affairs Committee said to-
day in support of a $7,848,750,000
foreign-aid program.
The committee quoted Gen. Eis-
enhower, head of Western Europe
defense armies, as saying “Men
were being called up and trained
faster than equipment was arriv-
ing”
‘ Manpower is not the bottleneck
in developing European defense.”
the committee said. “The limiting
factors are equipment and money
. . . Gen. Eisenhower was emphatic
on this point.”
What’s needed, the committee
emphasized, is American financial
help until the free nations can pay
for their own defenses..
But, it warned, the foreign-aid
program is “not a program under
which we will carry the rest of the
world on our backs—It is the plan
of the program that United States
assistance to Western European
self-help will enable our triends
in that area to hold the line them-
selves soon.”
The program approved by the
committee calls for $651,250,000
less than the $8,500,000,000 asked
by President Truman.
A Republican-sponsored move
was underway in the Senate to trim
the Administration request by. 15
per cent.
The House group declared
There is no time to spare” in
building up defenses even though
military experts, including Eisen-
hower, believe "We have sufficient
time for better preparation.”
Polluted Water
Found in Home
Discovery of coliform organisms
in samples of water taken at the
residence of Bob Westerburg, 3441
South Eighth St. has the Abilene-
Taylor County Health Unit and
city officials making additional
tests to determine whether it is an
isolated case or whether other wa-
ter in the area is polluted. 1
Dr. J. H. Kreimeyer, director
of the health unit, said coliform or-
ganisms are those which live in the
bowels.
Their presence detected in a wa-
'INDOCTRINATED' BY RE DS
Nearly Half of Missing GIs
Believed Prisoners of War
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14 ( —
Unofficial estimates indicated to-
day that, of the 10 624 Americans
officially listed as missing in ac-
tion in Korea as many has 4 500
probably are being held in Com-
munist war prisoner camps
This figure comes from Allied
military sources which cannot be
named but which are in as good
position as anyone on the Allied
side to know the score on this hush-
hush matter.
Z The prisoners are said to be con-
fined near Kanggye, deep inside
North Korea about 20 air miles
from the Manchurian frontier.
NUMBER UNKNOWN
The number of American and
other, U.N. prisoners never has
been announced. Allied sources es-
timate the total number at approxi-
mately 10,000.
The Communist Peiping radio
has carried over a period of months
the names of approximately 1.000 troops and were given medical at-
Americans it has said were being tention.
tention.
held in Korea. The Red radio re-
The apparent purpose for this
leased the names a few at a time good care was to weaken the resist-
in propaganda broadcasts from
January through early July. There
have been numerous duplications.
Invariably the broadcasts, pur-
porting to be messages written by
the prisoners themselves, stressed
that the men were being well treat-
ed.
Since the Kaesong military arm-
istice conference opened July 10,
and the question of troop withdraw-
als was deferred until a later con-
ference at a higher level, the Red
radio has made no further broad-
casts of prisoner messages.
SOME WELL TREATED
A. group of 18 Marines who es-
eaped last April on the central
front confirmed that prisoners were
fed the same food aa Communist
ance of hard-fighting Allied troops
and make them surrender more
easily.
Before releasing a group of men,
the Communists require them to
attend "school" eight hours a day
for indoctrination courses on com-
munism. -
All prisoners attend school.
Allied sources are reticent on the
effectiveness of these courses
The technique of releasing indoc-
trinated prisoners is not new to the
Chinese Red Army. During World
War II it was tried against the
Japanese and again during the civil
war against the Nationalists.
The Allies have announced they
bold 164,766 counted prisoners of
war. Most of them are North Kore-
ans.
ter analysis suggests the possibil-
ity that organisms causing ty-
phoid, dysentery or other diseases
may also be in the water, he ex-
plained.
Out of the 20 weekly samples of
water gathered last week by the
health unit throughout the city, the
sample taken at the Westerburg
residence was the only one show-
ing coliform organisms. Dr. Krei-
meyer pointed out.
THIRD SAMPLE
Monday the health unit took an-
other sample of water at the
Westerburgs, the third taken since
the coliform organisms showed up
last week. The agency also took
samples Monday from eight other
addresses in the same neighbor-
hood. 1
City Manager Austin P Hancock
said Tuesday: that when the re-
ports are received on the analysis
of these other eight samples, the
city and health unit will know
whether the Westerburg case is an
isolated one or whether there are
other houses at which the same
condition exists. In the meantime,
he said, “we have stepped up the
amount of chlorine, used in treat-
ing the city water.”
Hancock was inclined to believe
that the matter was not serious,
since no other samples taken last
week over the city showed coli-
form organisms.
Dr. Kreimeyer said that Mrs.
Westerburg called the health unit
last week, asking that water from
her residence be tested, since it
was cloudy and gravelly. That was
“eight or nine days ago.”
Kreimeyer stated that there was
no chlorine residual in that sam-
ple/nor in the second test made
at the same residence Chlorine
is used in purifying Abilene water.
The health unit advised the West-
erburgs to boil all water before
drinking it, until
could be corrected.
the condition
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