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WARM
Che Abilene Repor
32ems EVENING
‘WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WB S KETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
VOL. LXXIII, NO. 314
Associated Press (AP) ABILENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1954 —EIGHTEEN PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
Army Counsel
Charges Deceit
.. WASHINGTON (AP)—The Army today charged the
McCarthy camp with resorting to trickery and injecting a
‘doctored” photograph into Senate hearings on their roar-
ing row. Sen. McCarthy denounced the accusation as “un-
truth.”
Joseph N. Welch, special counsel for the Army, said
a photograph introduced in the McCarthy-Army hearing!
yesterday had been “shamefully” cut down to indicate that
Secretary of the Army Stevens and G. David Schine were
4 photographed alone instead
of in a group.
Welch produced a blown-up pic-
ture which showed Stevens and
SPRING OVER?
Mercury Up
As Governors
Fight Dust
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Temperatures were on the rise.
Warm, drying winds raked Tex-
as drought areas.
More water flowed into burgeon-
ing Falcon Reservoir on the Rio
Grande.
And drought-state governors
worked toward solution of dust
bowl problems.
That was the situation Tuesday
as spring waned and summer ap-
proached.
There was hope even more wa-
ter was on its way to Falcon, prin-
cipal source of Lower Rio Grande
irrigation water. Falcon was about
one-eighth full, containing 465,000
acre feet of water against a ca-
pacity of 4,065.000 acre feet
The river dumped seven-tenths
of a foot of water into the reservoir
in a 12-hour period Monday.
Winds Rake Texas
Drying southerly winds raked
Texas from one border to another
as ground fog developed at dawn.
Temperatures were to approach
summertime levels during the day
with the dawn spread from 59 de-
grees at Amarillo to 77 at Laredo.
Meanwhile, officials of the Agri-
culture Department in Washington
and the Civil Defense Administra-
tion there began consideration of
drought-state governors' recom-
mendations for emergency aid.
The main recommendations
were these:
1. That the government make
available immediately 15 million
dollars to the agriculture conserva-
tion to combat dust and wind ero-
sion problems.
2. That loan and credit facilities
Of the federal government be used
to “give maximum benefits" on a
long range basis to farmers and
ranchers in the drought areas of
the southwestern and cen-
tral states.
3. That ranch owners and farm-
ers in those areas be "encouraged
and helped in the proper use of
their land in the future so that it
will minimize the dust and wind
erosion in the disaster areas.”
„ Governors Suggested
The suggestions were made to
President Eisenhower by Govs.
Thornton of Colorado. Shivers of
Texas, Murray of Oklahoma, Arne
of Kansas and Mechem of New
Mexico following a meeting with
officials of various federal agen-
cies at the White House yesterday.
The meeting was called by the
President.
Thornton, spokesman for the
governors, emphasized to reporters
the recommendations were strictly
of an emergency nature. Further
study must be given to the prob-
lem of long-range drought control,
he said, and the long range plan
may be taken up during the pres-
ent conference of governors in
Washington.
Schine in a group standing before
an airplane.
The two photographs appeared
to be the same with the exception
that in the picture offered yester-
day other members of the group
were removed, leaving only Schine
and the secretary standing to-
gether.
’Not Speaking Troth’
McCarthy, examining the two
pictures, said “I can see no doctor-
ing except that “a Col. Bradley
waa not shown” in the picture the
McCarthy camp had placed in
evidence yesterday.
"Mr. Welch was not speaking
the truth,” McCarthy said.
Ray H. Jenkins, special counsel
to the subcommittee, said the
photograph had been represented
to him by "one of the parties to
the dispute, an adverse party to
Stevens" as being "a genuine, au-
thentic photograph”
Jenkins had introduced the orig-
inal picture yesterday while ques-
tioning Stevens as to how close his
own relations with Schine had
been.
There was no word to him.
Jenkins said, that it had been "cut
or altered." He added he had pre-
sented it in "good faith.”
Welch said Jenkins had been
“imposed upon.”
Welch announced "the official
photographer" who took the picture
for the Army at McGuire Air Force
Base, New Jersey, is being called
to Washington to teU which of the
two pictures is “the original.”
Welch's statement set off an up-
roar.
McCarthy, Welch and some of
the senators all sought to get the
floor at the same time, and Mc-
Carthy and Sen. Symington (D-Mo)
flared at each other.
“Oh, be quiet." McCarthy
snapped IK Symington who was
pounding on' the table with hia flat
while trying to get a word in.
Angrily, Symington retorted that
“I haven't the slightest intention"
of letting McCarthy shush him.
Senators Flare Up
Yesterday's session broke up
shortly after an angry exchange
between McCarthy and Sen. Mc-
Clellan of Arkansas, senior Demo-
crat on the investigations subcom-
mittee, which McCarthy normally
beads. He has stepped off as a
member for this inquiry.
This came when McClellan said
Stevens had authority to overrule
his subordinates and give Schine
an Army commission and thus
grant McCarthy and his chief coun-
sel, Roy M. Cohn, “what .hey
were seeking." Stevens said he
had the authority but never would
issue such a commission to any-
one.
Can’t Be Bought
McCarthy broke in to say he
thought McClellan had implied that
McCarthy “could be bought off.”
Any such implication, he shouted,
was "completely improper and un-
fair.”
There waa applause from spec-
tators as the , Wisconsin senator
declared:
"There is no evidence that this
chairman (McCarthy) ever could
have been bought off at any bear-
ing and never will be bought off
at any bearing."
SWISS MISS EYES CELEBRITY — A tiny Swiss girl
turns to look at John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State,
as the diplomat takes a stroll along a sunny thoroughfare
in Geneva, Switzerland. Dulles is there for the Geneva
Conference.
NATIONAL PROGRAM
Church of Christ
TV Starts Sunday
Television broadcasts of a new
national Herald of Truth religious
program will begin Sunday.
John F. Reese, elder of the
Highland Church of Christ of Abi-
lene, said the 30-minute programs
will be broadcast weekly. The
producer to Du Mont Television
Network.
A number of rival networks also
will carry the programs, he said.
Abilene was the setting for a por-
tion of the show.
The original goal was to have
the show carried by 62 TV stations.
However, Highland elders said
Tuesday they will be happy if the
show is carried by one third of
the original "target group.”
When the show is carried on 62
stations, the program will be avail-
able to 82.69 per cent of the TV
homes, elders said.
Featured speakers of the show
are two Abilene Christian College
graduates. They are James W.
Nichols, 26, and James D. Wille-
ford, 38, both evangelists.
The Herald of Truth previously
was developed as a radio network
show. It currently is heard on Mt
stations. On Feb. 10, 1952, the radio
show was carried by only 85 sta-
tions. The radio programs will con-
tinue.
Court Asked to Kill
Suit Against Judge
IN THE MIDDLE — Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis) is the
man in the middle as two of his aides, Roy Cohn (left)
and Don Surine, talk in whispers during a session of the
McCarthy-Army hearing. +
AUSTIN (—The Court of Crim-
inal Appeals was asked today to
throw out a suit attacking Dist.
Judge A. S. Broadfoot's order dis-
solving the Duval County grand
jury panel.
Members of a grand jury com-
mission discharged by the 79th
district court judge who succeeded
ousted Judge C. Woodrow Laughlin
had asked the appeals court to set
aside Broadfoot’s order.
The latest move today was filed
in behalf of Judge Broadfoot by
attorney Atwood McDonald, Fort
Worth.
He submitted written arguments
supporting a claim that the grand
jury commissioners had no author-
ity to sue, and that the court of
criminal appeals had no jurisdic-
tion in the case.
The court tomorrow will hear
oral arguments in the original suit
by the grand jury commissioners
against Judge Broadfoot, and
Broadfoot's answer and motion to
dismiss.
McDonald's brief contended that
the Court of Criminal Appeals had
no statutory or constitutional au-
thority to hear matters involving
Judge Broadfoot.
“This court has no jurisdiction
to supervise, direct, or control a
trial court in the exercise of its
discretionary powers," the brief
said Further, ft said, the Court
of Criminal Appeals has no juris-
diction in civil matters.
The action attacking Judge
Broadfoot's order was brought in
the Court of Criminal Appeals here
by J. A. Tobin, Tyson Summy and
Jose Angel Heras, members of the
jury commission discharged by
Broadfoot.
Broadfoot had declared they did
not use due care and diligence in
selecting fair and impartial grand
and petit jurors in the turbulent
affairs of Duval County.
Broadfoot was called from re-
tirement. to take over the 79th Dis-
trict court when Judge Laughlin
was ousted by the State Supreme
Court. Laughlin had been elected
THE WEATHER
U.S. DEPARTMENT oF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY - Cloudy to
partly cloudy and continued warm Tues-
day and Wednesday; high both days to
upper 80s. Low Tuesday night 65.
NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST TEXAS
Partly cloudy and warm this afternoon,
— - Wednesday. No important
sourn CENTRAL TEXAS-
and warm this afternoon.
with the backing of political boss
George Parr of Duval County.
The affairs of Parr and conduct
of government in the area have
been under state and federal ecru-
tiny.
McDonald’s brief argued that
Tobin and the others had filed a
suit attacking their discharge in
79th District court, that the suit
was now pending and Judge Broad-
foot has not refused to consider
it "in due order and time."
The Court of Criminal Appeals,
McDonald said, has no jurisdiction
to hear and pass on the disputed
fact issues involved, and no juris-
diction to interfere with the "pre-
viously attached” jurisdiction of a
district court.
TODAY'S MARKETS
NEW YORK un—The stock mar-
ket moved slightly lower today in
early dealings.
Profit-taking in the recently
strong aircrafts cut that diviaion
back markedly with Douglas off
between 2 and 3 points at times.
Livestock
FoBT worm
perat
a.m.s
for the 24 hours
1.
for the 24 hours
ig 3 Weakening
gce Terms
tst E V.H HEH-
Australia, New
Zealand, Set
To Aid French
WASHINGTON —Australia and
New Zealand were reported today
to have expressed strong interest
in joining the United States in pos-
sible "united action” to save Indo-
China and Southeast Asia from
communism.
Both governments were under-
stood to have stopped short of a
firm "yes" only because of Brit-
ain’s refusal to adopt a like course
until after the current Geneva con-
ference with Red China sad
Ruasia.
But Australian and New Zealand
interest in the plan put forth by
Secretary of State Dulles is re-
ported strong enough that Amer-
ican officials are hoping the two
will persuade Britain to join up
rather than split the British Com-
monwealth.
Still Pressing Plan
Dulles waa said to be pressing
his united action plan at Geneva
even though informed American of-
ficials regard the fall of the Indo-
china stronghold of Dien Bien Phu
aa only a matter of time.
The loss of Dien Bien Phu to
the Red-led Vietminh. they said,
would make all the more imper-
ative united action to rescue In-
dochina.
Just last night, 12 key members
of the Senate and the House, both
Democrats and Republicans, were
given a State Department fill-in on
Indochina and other world trouble
points. The briefing by Acting Sec.
retary Walter Bedell Smith was
baaed on messages sent by Dulles
from Paris and Geneva.
Coming away from the briefing,
several of the lawmakers com-
mented that "things look dark all
over.”
One of them. Sen. H. Alexander
Smith (R-NJ), said in an inter-
view the "next few days will be
of vital importance to the West.”
Smith, chairman of a Senate For-
eigh Relations subcommittee on
the Far East, said the coming day
or two "should tell the story at
Dien Bien Phu.”
Britain's willingness to join Au-
stralia, New Zealand and other na-
tiona in a united front against Red
encroachment in Southeast Asia
could open the way for free world
countries to reinforce French
Union forces with military unite of
their own.
Dulles advocated the "united ac-
tion" approach in a speech March
29. Later be issued specific invita-
tions to nine countries with inter-
ests in Southeast Asia.
Thailand accepted. The Philip-
pines indicated it would join.
France and the three Indochina
states—Laos, Cambodia and Viet
Nam—have informally hinted at
acceptance.
Britain's membership, however,
is regarded as crucial to the plan’s
success because Dulles reportedly
does not believe the United States
should "go it alone" if other allies
, refuse to participate.
In London, the British were ve-
ported to have rejected for the
present any idea of direct inter-
vention in Indochina. But inform-
ants indicated Britain may send
more troops to Malaya and per-
haps stage a show of naval force
off Indochina.
__ ________4.500; slaugh-
steers and yearlings weak, slaughter
cows, bulls and slaughter calves were
generally steady. Good and choice slaugh-
ter steers and yearlings 17.00-22.25; com-
mon and medium 12.00-17.00; fat cows
11.00-13.75; bulls 10.00-15.00: good and
choice slaughter calves 17.50-21.00; com-
mon and medium 13.00-17.00; good and
choice stocker steer calves and yearlings
17.00-21.00: stocker cows 10.00-13.50.
Hogs 500; butcher hogs and sows steady.
Choice 190-250 lb. butchers 27.75-28.00;
choice around 300 a. hogs 27.25; choice
160-185 lb. hogs 26.50-27.50; sows 22.00-
FORT WORTH ( Cattle
sheep 1,200; spring lambs steady: shorn
slaughter lambs slow, most clippers unsold:
aged sheep steady; feeder lambs weak.
Good and choice spring lambs 20.00-23.00;
utility and good shorn aged wethers 11.00-
12.00; cull to good slaughter ewes 5.00 6.50.
H. J. Evans, Snyder
Woman's Son, Dios
SNYDER, April 27 (RNS)-Hen-
ry Jackson Evans, middle-
aged Panhandle man and son of
Mrs. Ettie Evans of Snyder, died
at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Colby,
Kan., of a heart attack.
A Bell Funeral Home ambulance
brought the body here Funeral la
pending, but will be held in the
First Baptist Church here.
Survivors include his mother: hia
wife of Panhandle; one sister, Mrs.
Earl Davis of Snyder: four broth-
ers, Floyd of Amarillo. Elmer of
Snyder, Elgin of Abernathy and
and G. F. Jr
AN OVERSIGHT
Warden, Heed His Plight;
Bike Not Built for Flight
MIDLOTHIAN (AP)—When Constable Perry Aday
here saw a strange youngster furiously pedaling a bike
through town, questions arose.
Constable Aday knows all the Midlothian teen-agers.
Sure enough Jack Rainsberger, 18, didn’t live here. He
walked away Saturday from the federal reformatory at
Seagoville, holed up for a day in Dallas, and then stole
a bike for his getaway.
Asked Deputy Sheriff J. W. Wiseman: “Why a bike?
Why not a car?”
“Can’t drive,” said Rainsberger, who had pedaled
25 hard miles.
“Lord, if I only could.”
British Sel
To Seek Fast
Cease-Fire
By EDDY GILMORE
GENEVA a—Russia and France
opened discussions on Indochina to-
day amid reports the solidarity of
the Western Big Three at the Ge-
neva conference over cease-fire
terms in the war-torn Asian coun-
try was weakening.
The British were reported ready
Monsoon Rains Hil
Indochina-
HANOI. Indochina, U — The
long-awaited big seasonal monsoon
rains hit Dien Bien Phu and all
of north Indochina today as French
and Vietminh artillery kept up
their violent duels across the bat-
tered ramparts of the besieged
fortress.
in its usual brief morning com-
munique. the French high com-
mand described the situation at
Dien Bien Phu as ' unchanged"
and said there had been no im-
portant land fighting in the past
24 betas.
Since the rebel artillery atteck
stepped up Sunday, the French
have believed a third all-out Viet-
minh infantry assault on the
shrunken fortress defenses might
1 all-out Viet-
come at any time.
Rains AM French
Many observers expect the mon-
soons to tamper or halt Vietminh
operations and seriously slow
transport of the rebels' war sup-
plies from Red China. The French
hope this will force their enemy
to taper off hia efforts to overrun
Dien Blen Phu's battered and out-
numbered defenders
But the advent of the big rains,
accompanied by violent lightning
and thunderstorms, also retarded
the French counterattack Little
seas of mud oozed from the one-
time duet bowl's red earth, slowing
the French tanks and armored
vehicles.
The heavy clouda and sheets of
rain forced the French war planes
to taper off their heavy attacks on
the rebel legions tightly circling
the northwest bastion and the lines
of trucks and coolies bringing them
food and munitions. Only yester-
day U.S.-supplied Corsair fighter-
bombers had swelled the French
piloted air force for the first time
for a record day of raids on the
Vietminh.
Transports Still Fly
Despite the weather, French
transport planes kept up their
drops of men. war material and
food into the beleaguered fortress.
Mrs. J.W. Thompson
Funeral at Albany
ALBANY, April 27 — Funeral
for Mrs. J. W. Thompson, M. who
died Mondsy at 6:30 a.m., will be
held Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the
First Baptist Church here.
The Rev. Joe P. Self Jr., pae-
tor. and the Rev. Humphrey, poo-
tor of the First Christian Church,
will officiate. Burial will be in Al-
bany Cemetery under the direc-
tion of Castleberry Funeral Home.
Mrs. Thompson died in Shockel-
ford County Memorial Hospital
after a week's illness She had
been in failing health for several
months.
Survivors include her husband;
three daughters, Mrs. Bill Perdue
of Lubbock, Mrs. W. A. Crow of
Big Lake, and Mrs. Jack Carlile
of Albany; one son, T. J. Thomp-
son of Colorado City; eight grand-
children and two great-grandchil-
dren; three brothers, John Nich-
olas of Carbon, Curtis Nicholas
of Sonora, and H. M. Nicholas of
Elida, N. M.; two sisters, Mrs.
J. C. King of Ropesville and Mrs.
E. L. King of Lubbock: and a
number of nieces and nephews. I
Snyder Man Dies
Of Heart Attack
SNYDER, April 27. (RNS)-Me-
Kinley Bramble, about 45, of Sny-
der, died of a heart attack at
12:06 p. m. Monday in the north
part of Snyder.
Funeral will be under direction
of Bell Funeral Home. Time haa
not yet been announced.
inally
to back the French in seeking an
immediate cease-fire, to be fol-
lowed by negotiations with the
Communist-led Vietminh. The
’ United States to understood to op-
The Vietminh’s heavy antiair-
craft guns again and again threw
up curtains of fire at the low-flying
transports. The fortress gunners
worked desperately to seek out the
rebel batteries and silence them.
In the fortress' northwest sector,
believed to be the avenue the
rebels will use for their next drive
on the French headquarters, the
defenders and the Vietminh blast-
ed at each other with mortars,
heavy machine guns and automat-
ic arms. Thors the opposing
trenches were only 300 fest apart.
ROTC Grads
To Go on Duly
All qualified spring and summer
ROTC graduates will be commis-
sioned and assigned to active duty
within a year, unless they have
had prior military service.
This was revealed Tuesday in
a letter to Lt. Col. Howard P.
Rice, commandant of the Hardin-
Simmons University ROTC.
This was the first definite an-
nouncement that this year’s ROTC
graduates would be commissioned.
Last year the Army had indicated
some of its ROTC graduates might
not be sent on active duty be-
cause of the reduction in military
strength.
Under the plan announced thia
week, men commissioned this year
will be called to active duty some-
time during the 12-month period
beginning July 1. 1964. However,
those who have had previous serv-
ice will not be called to active
duty but will be assigned to the
reserve system.
Four Hardin-Simmons students
will receive commissions this year.
George Crook of Clyde and Don-
ald Payne of Abilene will be com-
missioned as second lieutenants in
May. George Truett Rogers of Abi-
lene will receive hia bars after he
attends a summer camp. Harold
Klingman of El Paso will be com-
missioned at the end of the sum-
mer term.
Their first duty stations will be
to attend schools in their basic
service branch.
Plans for next year’s graduates
will be determined after the
Anny's ultimate strength is de-
termined by Congress, Col. Rice
said. .
pose any cease-fire not accom-
panied by certain unspecified guar-
antees.
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov drove in a bulletproof
limousine to the lakeside villa of
France's Georges Bidault for talks
on which nations will be invited
here for discussions on Indochina.
They had a 40-minute discussion.
Then Molotov drove back to his
villa. There was no clue at once
on the results of the get-together.
Still Informal
The Indochina talks were as yet
in the informal, small-group stage.
The 19-nation Far Eastern confer-
ence agreed at its opening session
yesterday to take up general de-
bate on Korea first, starting at
the session this afternoon.
The Molotov-Bidault talks were
the first contact of the Western
Big Three with Russia on Indo-
China. The 19-nation conference
is scheduled to take up that war
after its discussions on Korea.
Bidault arranged to see the So-
viet foreign minister after the Rus-
sian failed to show up yesterday
for an informal talk on Indochina
with French Minister, U. & Sec-
retary of State Dulles and British
Foreign Secretary Eden.
Agreed on Participants
The Western Big Three reviewed
the situation in France’s Far East-
ern colony and were reported to
have agreed on the nations they
want at the table when Indochina
comes up.
Diplomatic sources believed Mol-
otov's failure to meet with the
three Western ministers indicated
a decision against any "Big Four”
gatherings while Communist Chi-
na's Premier-Foreign Minister
Chou En-lai to in Geneva.
This was regarded aa part of
the Communist attempt to put the
Peiping regime on a basis of equal-
ity in all big power consultations
here, something the Americans
have said they will not counten-
Battle Side Stepped
An anticipated East-West tangle
on Red China’s status was side-
stepped at yesterday’s opening ses-
sion of the conference but there
was some indication Molotov might
be holding off only until the talks
turn to Indochina.
Pressed for a statement on
Peiping’s role, a Soviet spokesman
repeatedly referred the newsmen
to the Big Foor communique after
the Berlin conference which agreed
on the Far Eastern conference.
That announcement waa specific
on the composition of the Korean
talks, limiting them to the nations
which had troops in the war there
and the Soviet. But of the Indo-
chinese question, it said only that
it would be discussed by the Big
Four plus Red China "and other
interested states.”
REAPING WAR’S HARVEST — Armed with detecting devices, a group of ROK sol-
dieri marches into a former battle area to clear the mines so they can plant rice. The
clearing was made in preparation for the resettlement of an area north of the 38th
parallel by some 100 families who fled the Communists. (
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