The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 128, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 16, 1952 Page: 2 of 24
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9 A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
-A Abliene Texas, Monday Evening, Dee. 1,1 1952
Cash, Gifts Offered for Homes
Best Decorated for Christmas
Approximately $225 in cash and
merchandise will be given to win-
ners of the Christmas home decor-
ating and lighting contest spon-
sored jointly by the Abilene Cham-
ber of Commerce and the Abilene
Garden Club, it was announced
Monday.
Deadline for entry in the contest
is Friday. Anyone in the city limits
of Abilene may enter the contest
by contacting the C-C, telephone
4-7241.
Prizes will be as follows: Resi-
dence exterior, $25, $12.50 and
$6.50, first, second, and third
prizes: most beautifully decorated
Gun Mishap Kills
Blanco Bus Driver
BOERNE, Dec 15 (—William
B. Strange, 59, bus driver for the
Blanco schools, was shot and killed
yesterday as he sat in a hunting
cottage on the Ernest Psge Ranch.
35 miles northeast of here.
Sheriff Bill Edge said Marvin
Odis Page, 48, had returned from
a hunting trip and was unloading
his weapon when It accidentally
discharged.
window, 115, $8.50 and 55 for first
second, and third places. The
same amounts will be given for
winners in the most beautifully
decorated door category.
The most beautifully decorated
exterior school prizes will be $20,
$10 and $8 for the first three win-
ners The most appropriately de-
corated church will receive a sin-
gle award of $40.
The West Texas Utilities Co,
has offered the following merchan-
dise prizes to the first three place
winners having the most beautiful-
ly decorated living outdoor tree,
a table lamp, a waffle iron, and a
pin-up lamp.
The judges, who will be selected
by the Abilene Garden Club and
who will remain anonymous, stress
that the cost spent on decoartions
will have no bearing on the final
judging. Their decisions will be
based on artistic effort, original-
ity. outdoor lighting, and design.
Winners will be announced be-
fore Christmas.
Teenager Charged
In Theft of Shoes
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. IS m
A teenager was in jail here today
charted with stealing four cases
of shoes—all for the right foot.
James Edward Trusty, 18, waa
charted with grand larceny of the
sample shoes—about $500 worth-
from the ear of a salesman.
Detective J. L Johnson aald “we
recovered the shoes from a hotel
room where they had been stored,
apparently in disgust." ,
IT’S A PURTY
NECKLACE ZEKE!
I’LL HAVE IT
INSURED WITH
Texas Mental
Patient Found
PEORIA, III. Dec. 15 0—Gu-
bert Wagner, 30, a mental patient
who escaped from the Austin, Tex.,
State Hospital, surrendered quietly
today.
Wagner declined to tell where
be and Howard Pierson, 38, split
up on their way north.
The two broke out of the hos-
pital last Tuesday.
Wagner said they made a key
from cardboard and slipped out
They slid down a rope made of
bed sheets, stole an auto and drove
away. When the car ran out of
gas, they abandoned it and hitch-
hiked.
Wagner was found near a plant
where he formerly worked.
Dr. R. C Rowell superintendent
of the Austin State Hospital, said
authority has been received for
Wagner's commitment to the Chi-
cago State Hospital and he will not
be returned to Texas.
Wagner, a resident of Peoria,
had been committed to the Texas
institution from Harris County
shortly after coming to Texas.
Rowell said negotiations had been
underway for his transfer to the
Chicago Institution before the es-
cape.
Wagner broke out of the Austin
Hospital late Tuesday along with
Howard Pierson, who killed his
parents. Supreme Court Judge and
Mrs William Pierson, near here
in 1935.
GOODFELLOW CHRISTMAS TREE—A typical basket of
food lies under this Christmas tree at the Goodfellows head-
quarters in the Alexander Bldg., where needy families of Abi-
lene will pick up toys and clothing this week. Food included
in the basket are a chicken, can goods, potatoes and other
Christmas dinner trimmings. (Staff Photo)
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Insurance
ALEXANDER BLDG.
ABILENE
PR. 2-8449
Loan Fund Set Up
For Prison Inmates
HUNTSVILLE, Dec 15 UNL A
loan fund has been established for
Inmates of the Texas Prison Sys-
tem released on emergency re-
prieves or conditional pardons who
don’t have the money to get to
their destination.
The money is from the system's
entertainment and recreation fund.
Loans up to $50 will be made, to
be repaid on the installment plan
without interest.
Give A Texoma Seat Cover
Gift Certificate
We are offering from now ‘till Christmas a 10% Cash
Discount on Any Gift Certificate You can purchase
thig certificate and present it to your chosen receiver
and they may choose the cover to fit their car.
U. S. Diplomat
Is Suspended
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 IF-The
State Department today suspended
career diplomat John Carter Vin-
cent after a government board
found “there la reasonable doubt
as to his loyalty.”
At the same time, the depart-
ment announced that the U. 8.
Civil Service Commission’s Loyal-
ty Review Board has found "no
reasonable doubt about the loyal-
ty" of John Paton Davies Jr., an-
other key State Department ca-
reer officer.
Both Vincent and Davies have
figured in repeated Inquiries Into
charges of Communist infiltration
into the government.
The department announced that
Vincent, now U. S. minister at
Tangier, Morocco, has been sum-
moned home
The Loyalty Review Board of the
Civil Service Commission recom-
mended that Vincent be fired, the
department said.
The department only suspended
Vincent, however, and announced
that President Truman will discuss
the case with Secretary of State
Acheson when Acheson returns
from the NATO Conference at
Paris this week end.
As for Davies, the review board
said that regardless of “the wis-
dom or judgment of Mr. Davies as
a foreign service officer” there
was "no reasonable doubt" of his
loyalty. __
Davies is deputy director of the
Office of Political Affairs in the
office of the U. S. high commis-
sioner for Germany, at Bonn.
Vincent was accused by Louis
Budenz, former editor of the Com-
munist Daily Worker, in testimony
before the Senate security sub-
committee of being a Communist
and "under Communist disci-
pline." He was criticized by the
committee along with Owen Latti-
more, Johns Hopkins University
teacher, after Vincent underwent
a four-day hearing early this year
Boston Women Sip
179-Year-Old Tea
BOSTON IF — A epot of tea
claimed to be made from leaves
missed by revolutionists Dec. 16,
1773, was sipped yesterday in com-
memoration of the 179th annivers-
ary of the Boaton Tea Party.
A group of 13 descendants of Rev.
olutionary War families and the
British vice consul. Mrs Muriel
Rolls, toasted each other from 70-
year-old teacups made in England.
Edward Rowe Snow, an author,
said he obtained the tea leaves
from the late Jefferson Haskell
Parker, who died Dec. 6 at the age
of 99 years and 11 months. Parker
reportedly obtained the leaves from
a descendant of a survivor of the i
historic tea party who died in 1846
OKLAHOMA
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gardless of their knowledge con-
corning the organizations to which
they had belonged.
“But membership may be inno-
cent." Clark went on. "A state
servant may have joined a pro-
scribed organization unaware of
its activities and purposes. In re-
cent years, many completely loyal
persona have severed organization-
al ties after learning for the first
time of the character of groups
to which they had belonged. .
-At the time of affiliation, a
group itself may be innocent, only
later coming under the influence
of those who would turn it toward
illegitimate ends. Conversely, an
organization formerly subversive
and therefore designated as such
may have subsequently freed itself
from the influences of those which
originally led it to its listing.”
Validity of the Oklahoma law
was questioned by seven former
teachers of the Oklahoma Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College.
They were dismissed May 21, 1951,
after declining to take the oath.
It was stipulated in the Oklahoma
courts that none of the teachers
was connected with a subversive
organization.
OTHER RULINGS
In other cases today, the court:
L Ruled for the first time that
use of wire-tap evidence in state
courts does not violate the Federal
Communications Act The court
has ruled in other cases, however,
that use of such evidence in state
courts does not violate the Fourth
Amendment
2. Refused to interfere with a
federal grand jury investigation of
an alleged world oil cartel.
The wire-tap ruling came in a
decision upholding the conviction
of Thomas Schwartz, Dallas pawn-
broker charged with being an ac-
complice in a jewel robbery.
The sheriff's office recorded
phone conversations between
Schwertz and one of the actual
robbers, then a prisoner, which
were admitted into evidence.
Schwartz, who received a 99-
year-sentence, contended In his ap-
peal use of the wire-tap evidence
violated a section of the communi-
cations act which forbids disclo-
sure of intercepted wire and radio
messages.
Justice Minton, who delivered
the 8 to 1 opinion, said the section
applies only to the exclusion of
wire-taps in federal court proceed-
ings. and does not exclude such
evidence in state court proceed-
>nea.
The court turned down without
comment a petition filed by five
major oil companies seeking to
block a grand fury investigation
here of an alleged international oil
monopoly.
The companies, which had lost in
two lower courts here, wanted the
case transferred to New York on
the ground that 14 of the 23 grand
jurors are government employes.
They said that if they were to be
investigated it should be by “a fair
and impartial grand jury, tree of
the inevitable bias of government-
employe jurors.”
By special law, government em-
ployee here serve on both grand
juries and trial juries. They do not
serve on federal juries in other
jurisdictions
Evangelist Graham
Preaches to Koreans
PUSAN, Dec. U inEvangelist
Billy Graham, bundled in an Army
parks, called for sinners to repent
—and hundreds of Koreans came
forward tonight.
Graham preached before some
MN Koreans—and some GI’s-
who jammed a blocked-off circle
In a Pusan Street No hall in the
city would accommodate the crowd
so Graham spoke in the bone chill-
ing open air. _- _
Well-dressed and ragged Kore-
ans mingled with grandmothers
and youngsters to hear the famed
evangelist preach. _
Graham paused frequently in his
fervent sermon, allowing a South
Korean Presbyterian minister to
interpret.
Sues for Separation
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 un—Actor
Peter Lorre was sued for separa-
tion today by his wife, Mrs. Inge-
borg Lorre. She asked $250 a week
temporary allmony.
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Check O Ce D —M O. O C.OD □
announcing
IKE STAFF ASKED TO EXAMINE
CONSCIENCES; RETURN RADIOS
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (PP)—Members of President-elect
Eisenhower’s staff were asked today to examine their
consciences concerning 52 missing portable radios.
The sets were among 60 radios lent by RCA for use of
the staff on Eisenhower’s special campaign train.
A memorandum circulated today by James M. Lambie
Jr , business manager of the Eisenhower staff, said:
“Sixty RCA portable radios were lent to the Eisen-
hower special train staff by RCA. To date eight of those
radios have been returned It is requested that the staff
members concerned examine their effects and conscien-
ces and drop off at the business office any product of
such examination.
"RCA was doubtless taking the calculated risk and ex-
pected a certain attrition but an 89 per cent loss is per-
, haps a trifle high."
The Opening Of The
Abilene Drug Co.
South 1st & Chestnut
(Formerly Nick Crain Drug No. 3)
DON P. HANKS
Brownwood Pioneer,
Ed Hall, 76, Dies
BROWNWOOD, Dec. 15 m—Ed
Hall, 76, Brownwood native and
member of a pioneer family, died
today. Services are scheduled to-
morrow. _
Hall operated an auto dealership
and was later associated with three
brothers in other enterprises.
Mrs. W. A. Harris, 84,
Dies ai Anson Home
ANSON, Dec. U (RNS)- Mrs.
W A. Harrie, 84, of Anson, died
about 2:30 p.m. Monday at the
home of her daughter and son-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. L B. Hammock
of Anson.
She had been UI for some time |
and in critical condition for about
two weeks
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Mrs. Harris was born Buelah
I Moore, July 25, 1868, near Atlanta,
j Ga , and came to Texas with her 1
family in 1882, settling la Bell
County.
She was married to W. A Harris 1
Feb. 11, 1886, in Temple and the
couple made their home in the
Reeds Lake community 11 miles
-noth of Temple until Mr. Harris’
death in November, 1943.
Since that time she had made
er home with the Hammocks
ere
Survivors besides Mrs Hammock
| ire one son. Joe B. Harris of Irv-
| ng. 18 grandchildren, 36 greet
grandehildren and one great-great
grandchild.
| Funeral will be at 3:30 p.m. Tues. |
lay at the First Methodist Church
I at Anson with Rev. C. C. Arm
I strong, retired Methodist pastor
officiating, assisted by Rev. David
Binkley, First Methodist pastor,
and the Rev McWilliams, pastor
of the North Side Baptist Church
The body will be taken Wednes-
day to Reed's Lake community
cemetery for graveside services
and burial at 1 p.m.
Grandsons will serve as pall-
hearers. Lawrence Funeral Home
is in ebarge.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 128, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 16, 1952, newspaper, December 16, 1952; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1652231/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.