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The Abilene Reporter ~32ems SUNDAY
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES" — Byron
Associated Press (AP)
ABILENE TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1953 —SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES IN FIVE SECTIONS
'LIMITED GOVERNMENT URGED
‘Collectivism’ Perils World,
Ex-FBI Agent Warns at ACC
Mystery Clouds
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
Bls
Dan Smoot of Dallas, declared
Saturday that “the idea of collec-
tivism is the greatest threat to 20th
century civilization" and called for
a return to our nation's original
concept of “limited government."
Speaking before an overflow
crowd of 1.700 in Abilene Christian
College’s Sewell Auditorium. Smoot
•aid the idea of collectivism la
“promoting a mad and implacable
drive throughout the world toward
a monolithic uniformity, a levelling
Related story on Page 2-A
off of all mankind to a dull level
of mediocrity, a drift 'toward a
great one-world of animated pup-
pet# where everyone will have his
equal share of a little bit of noth-
ing.”
“The march of collectivism,” the
former FBI agent said, “would not
be so hard to check if it were led
only by evil men, but it isn't."
Drought Aid
To Continue
AMARILLO, Nov 7 UR—Federal, provement In range conditions is
emergency aid to drought areas expected. But this year’s late sum-
will be continued until spring. Sen. mer and fall rains came too late.
Anderson (D-N.M.) told 300 Texas Schoeppel told the bearing the
farmers and stockmen today after 50 per cent cut in freight rates
• Senate Agriculture Committee for winter hay shipments by south-
hearing ern and western railroads to
Sen Schoeppel (R-Kan.) said the drought-disaster counties will be
group was convinced rains came extended past the Nov 16 dead-
too late to improve range condi- line. Reports from Washington this
tions enough and need for contin- week were that the Agriculture
ued aid was indicated.
Anderson spoke of the need for
permanent legislation to provide ------— ----
emergency aid immediately when pasture would be of considerable
a need is indicated in future help tor those diversified farmers
droughts. who got their wheat planted to
Representatives from 24 counUes time to take advantage of the rains
greeted the senators here. The which fell last month. At least 23
Senate group left tor a meeting per cent of the wheat has not yet
in Clovis, N.M., shortly after the been planted, however, and large
Amarillo hearing. -—-----—- , A
Bob Lyons, State Production and the wheat pastures due to the
Marketing Administration Commit- ture of their operation,
tee member, was chairman of the " * - 1
Amarillo hearing. **--------37—— -
Farmers and stockmen expressed ing refinancing of livestock pro
• desire to see emergency aid con- ducers. “We hope for some easing
tinued until spring. They said they of loan requirement#, he said
felt the protram is of vital 1m- Anderson said refinancing in
portance through the winter if many instances appeared justified
foundation herds are to be main- and necessary. Where all local loan
tained. By May, considerable im- sources had been exhausted.
Department was seeking to obtain
the extension.
Small stock reisers said wheat
ranches can expect little help from
L. J. Cappleman, state FHA di-
rector. answered questions regard-
Elderly Nolan Woman
Dies in 2-Car Crash
Funeral for Mrs. Kinerd was
pending Saturday night. She was
living with her son, in the Nolan
SWEETWATER, Nov T <RNS»
—Mrs. J. F. Kinerd, 83. of the
Nolan community, 15 miles from -
died at 8:30 p. m. community, and was the last of
OWCCtwatCE 0eo - •__10 riann 1. kam anlu
Saturday following a two car colli-
elon at 2 30 p. m. about 10 miles
from Sweetwater on the San An-
a family of 11. Kinerd Is her only
child. She had lived in Nolan
County many years.
“Witness Dr. James Conant,
America's high commissioner in
Germany, formerly president of
Harvard, criticizing the idea of pri-
vate schools, saying that all chil-
dren should go to public schools,
where, mind you, the state can as-
sure that they will all use the same
kind of buildings, have the same
kind of teachers, read the same
kind of books, play the same kind
of games — and arrive ultimately
at the same kind of sameness
which characterizes a fine herd of
whiteface cattle.”
Smoot, who is coordinator and
commentator for “Facts Forum."
national radio and television pro-
grams. opened his address by say-
ing that American foreign assist-
ance programs are failing "be-
cause their appeal is tn the stom-
achs and not to the minds of men."
He continued:
“The only real threat to a man's
life and liberty Is the government
under which he lives. A govern-
ment with unrestricted power has
always been an evil. Today, it is s
monstrous thing, because the tech-
niques of mass propaganda and
mass thought control have reached
a point of almost Satanic perfec-
tion.
“Once modern government la
permitted to expand Its powers and
functions until it controls the eco-
nomic, politics! and social lives of
the people, breaking that control
la a practical impossibility.
“That’s why I think it is so
extremely urgent that we try to
revive the old original American
concept of limited government.”
American History Triced
Smoot briefly traced the history
of the American movement and
said the millions of Europeans who
have migrated to the country since
1790 have done so because they
were looking for freedom.
“Most of them were common
men, but It hink they were look-
ing for a place where a com-
mon man can. God willing, be-
come uncommon; where a man
can stand on his own feet and be
himself and become, with God's
help, whatever his vision, his faith
and his manhood can combine to
make him.” Smoot said.
Those millions did not come to
American because of cheap land,
natural resources or because they
“were looking for freedom from
fear and freedom from want," he
said.
“Can you believe that any of
those early American pioneers who
pushed through gaps in the Appa-
lachian Mountains, looking west-
ward with blue vistas of hope and
adventure in their eyes, possess-
ing nothing but s Bible, a gun,
an ax and a big family of chil-
see PERILS Pg. 2-A, Col. 1
• 1
Frost Today;
Cold to Las!
Until Monday
Light frost was forecast tor the
Abilene area Saturday night and
early Sunday morning by the U.S.
Weather Bureau here, and the
state's first snow was expected in
Northwest Texas before dawn.
The temperature in Abilene had
dropped to 39 degrees by 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, the lowest recorded
at the weather station here this
season. Saturday's high tempera-
ture of 52 degrees was the lowest
daytime maximum this fall
Cold weather is to continue Sun-
day and Monday with a high of 55
forecaat for both days. A low of
38 was anticipated Sunday night
Temperatures of 25 to 35 degrees
and anew flurries were forecast for
the Panhandle and Upper South
Plains. :
The westher bureau said there
mometers would drop to the up-
per 30‘s in North Central Texas
the low 40‘s in Central Texas and
the 60‘s in South Texas.
Cold, misty rain toll from the
coast to the plains. Dallas receive
ed .16 inch, Lufkin 06, Texark-
ana .29, Austin, .02, Houston 0
Beaumont .02, Waco .04, and Chile
dress. College Station. Wichita
Falls. Palacios and San Angelo
traces.
Slick highways were hazardous.
Chilly, damp air circulating
eastward across Texas out of the
Great Lakes, ran into cold air push-
ing down from the Pacific North-
west, causing the rain and snow
conditions.
The Pacific air was to push the
rainy area into East Texas by Sun-
day. The weather bureau here
said no rain la expected in thia
area.
Ike Will Honor
Unknown Soldier
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 I*—Pres-
ident Eisenhower will lay.a wreath
at the Tomb of the Unknown Sol-
dier during Armistice Day cere-
monies in Arlington National Cem-
etery Wednesday.
on Hiring of Spy
White House Hunt
Proves Fruitless
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (AP)—Mystery tonight surrounded
the present whereabouts of two reports which, Atty. Gen.
Brownell says, the FBI sent to the White House to warn
former President Truman that Harry Dexter White was a
Soviet spy.
Brownell charged yesterday that Truman promoted White
from assistant secretary of the Treasury to director of the
International Monetary' Fund, despite the FBI memoranda.
James C. Haggerty, President Eisenhower’s press secre-
tary, said today that a search of the present White House
files shows that “there are no confidential files in the White
House from the past administration.”
Hagerty hastened to add ———————
that it is “customary” for a eg ■■ _ RAI-.A
President to take his confi- ITalans WanT
dential files when he leaves 11Q19113 WS Will
DOWN BUT NOT OUT—Roger Van Horn, 5-year-old-son
of T-Sgt. and Mrs. Alan V. Van Horn of Del Rio, was re-
ported in “good condition” at a local hospital Saturday
night after surviving a fall from an automobile traveling
#0 m.p.h. southwest of Abilene. (Staff Photo by Bill Turner)
AT 60 MPH
Boy, 5, Survives
Fall From Auto
gelo highway.
Seriously injured were Mrs. Fred
Kinerd, daughter - In - law of the
woman killed, and Mrs. George
H. Chastian of Sweetwater, in the
other car. Each suffered a broken
leg and Internal Injuries.
Suffering minor Injuries. Includ-
ing cuts and bruises were Fred
Kinerd, the driver of one car. Ms
daughter Jean. 19, and George H.
Chastian, the driver of the other
automobile.
All were taken to Sweetwater
Hospital by a Cate - Spencer Fu-
neral Home ambulance.
Both cars were almost complete-
ly demolished.
Texas Highway Patrolmen in-
vestigating the accident blamed a
heavy fog, which limited visabili-
ty for the accident. The two cars,
headed in opposite directions
caught front wheels when one.
passing a pickup, tailed in an at-
tempt to take to the ditch.
$50 IN PRIZES OFFERED
‘Book Matinee' to Build
Library for Texas Gl’s
Most people probably have a lot
of books around their houses that
they have read and won't read
again, but that some serviceman,
lonely and away from home, would
enjoy mightily.
That idea and a letter from an
East Texas farm boy In Korea to
his brothers and sisters inspired
a memorisi library begun by Brig.
Gen. Paul Wakefield, state draft
board director.
Saturday the Paramount Theater
and the Reporter - News will join
with 20 other Interstate Theaters
over the state to help with the
collection of books which will be
sent to Texas servicemen ill over
the world.
Admission to the special “Book
Matinee" will be two books in
good condition. Interstate Manager
Wally Akin said. No magazine or
comic books will be accepted, he
stressed.
The boy or girl who brings the
most books to the show will be
awarded a $25 defense bond, as
will the runner - up.
Minter’s Dry Goods and the
Farmers and Merhants National
Bank are donating the bonds. Akin
said. Mayor C. E. Gatlin will make
the presentation.
Boy Scouts will be in front of
the theater to accept the books,
and anyone who wishes to leave
books at the theater without at-
tending the show may leave them
with the scouts.
The books will become part of
the Douglas E. Humphrey Memo-
rial Library, a “library" which
will travel all over the world to
servicemen away from home.
Special Book Plata
Each of the books will have a
special book plate designed by a
San Antonio artist and signed by
Governor Allan Shivers.
They will be a living memorial
to a young soldier who was killed
in Korea, but whose voice reached
thousands of Texans after his
death in the letters written to his
family.
Pvt. Humphrey came from a
farm family near Kirbyville and
entered the Army before he was
18 because he and his brother had
always said that if one was called
the other would go
By WILL WHITE
Five-year-old boys can be plenty
tough.
That's what T-Sgt. and Mrs. Alan
V. Van Horn of Del Rio learned
when their son Roger fell out of
their family car doing 60 miles per
hour Saturday — and lived to talk
about it momenta later.
The Van Horns, en route to Bar-
tlesville, Okls . and St. Louis Mo.,
to visit their parents, were shout
25 miles out of Abilene on U. S.
Highway 277 (to San Angelo) when
the accident occurred at about 3:30
" Roger, in the back seat of their
1951 four-door Mercury with his
sister Sandra Lea. 7. accidentally
opened the back door and was
thrown out onto the right shoulder
of the highway.
Cut on Head
“It's just by, the grace of God
he's alive.’ T-Sgt Van Horn, sta-
tioned at Del Rio's Laughlan Air
Force Base, said Saturday night.
Roger suffered one severe cut on
the head and other cuts and bruis-
es, but was considered in "good
condition" by Hendrick Memorial
Hospital attendants Saturday night.
Dr. Leland Jackson had taken sev-
Hamlin Woman
Dies in Wreck
STAMFORD, Nov. 7. (RNS) —
Mrs. A. W. Knight, 34, of Hamlin
waa killed shout 11 45 p.m. Friday
when the pickup truck she was
driving overturned about 9 7 miles
west of Stamford on Highway 92.
The pickup was traveling west
toward Hamlin at the time of the
accident -
in the pickup with Mrs. Knight
were Mrs. Anna Belle Lindley and
five children. The children were
oral stitches to close the major
wound.
Roger had been rushed to the
hospital by Cleo M. Havins. a ci-
vilian employe with the fire de-
portment at Goodfellow AFB at
San Angelo. Havins was the first
person to come by after the father
had picked up his unconscious son
from the grass of the gently-slop-
ing shoulder.
office. He said, however there
are copies of the FBI reports
in FBI files.
Truman said at Kansas City
that he doesn't know where the
FBI reports are. He said he would
search the voluminous correspond-
ence he took with him to Missouri
to see If there are any copies of
such reports.
As tor the original reports, he
said:
“They must be in the files of
the attorney general. That's where
they should be if he hasn't done
away with them."
When he heard of this remark.
Atty, Gen. Brownell said sharply:
“He'll be terry he made that
statement."
Brownell arrived here today
from Chicago, where he made the
charges about White in a speech.
He said he would consider on Mon-
day whether to make public
a summary of the details in the
FBI reports.
Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) entered
the controversy over the White
case today with a statement that
a “protege” of White now holds
s high post with the International
Monetary Fund although the FBI
denounced him to the Truman ad-
ministration aa a Communist es-
pionage agent. McCarthy did not
name the man.
Meantime Sen. Ellender (D-La)
Havins put the Van Horn boy in
his car, according to the father,
administered artificial respiration _
and then hurried to View and screen" of Communist charges,
called the local police department He said the GOP was “headline
for an escort to the hospital. hunting” to cover up poor per-
formance in office and recent elec-
accused the Eisenhower adminis-
tration of throwing up a “smoke
Allied Trieste
Chief Ousted
ROME, Nov. 7 — Italy has told
the United States that quick re-
moral of British Gen. Sir John
Winterton as Allied commander In
troubled Trieste is the best way to
ease anti-British rioting erupting
across the country, reliable
sources said tonight.
Premier Giuseppe Pells made
this clear, they said. in a 45-min-
ute meeting with U. S. Ambassa-
dor Clare Boothe Luce after an-
other day of riotous anti-British
demonstrations in Rome and other
Italian cities.
Winterton heads s 7.000-man oc-
cupation force made up of U. S.
and British troops. Under his coo-
trot are the Trieste Territorial Po-
lice. a British-trained force of Ital-
ians and Slavs who have killed
seven persons and wounded others
this week in the port of Trieste to
break up pro-Italian demonstra-
tions
The strain on relations among
the three North Atlantic treaty
partners was reflected by a diplo-
malic exchange in London. Britain
angrily accused Italian neo-fas-
cists of sparking the three days
of rioting in Trieste. Italy retorted
that “excessive scUon” by terri-
torial police was at fault
«SAVE A BOOK FOR A SERVICEMAN”—That’s the motto of the Book Matinee which
will be held at the Paramount Theater Thursday to get books for the Douglas E Humph-
rey Memorial Library for Texas servicemen all over the world. Planning the matinee
are seated, Claude Willis, Boy Scout commission chairman for the central district, and
Lt Eddie Donaho, Army recruiting officer. Standing, left to right, are C. T. (Tommy) Con-
erly, co-chairman of the Taylor-Callahan County Selective Service Board Capt. Julien
Leblanc Air Force recruiter, and Wally A ken, manager of the Abilene Interstate Thea-
ters, which are sponsoring the matinee with the Reporter-News. (Staff Photo)
.1 * t
He wanted to be a preacher
"before he was 21." but instead
he died a soldier on a foreign
field, and won the Bronze Star
and Purple Heart.
After his death, when his body
was brought home for burial, his
parents took a letter written to
his brothers and sisters to the lo-
cal newspaper.
That was how Gen. Wakefield
happened to see It and how the
idea of the memorial library took
root.
The letter is packed with wis-
dom and warmth and reflects the
fine soul of a courageous and ideal-
istic person,” he said. “At 16. he
possessed the understanding of
many men three times his age.”
Gen. Wakefield first started col-
lecting books on his own, but then
See BOOK, Pg. 2-A. Col. 4
Mrs Van Horn accompanied Ha-
vins and her son. The latter came
to shortly, asked for his “Daddy"
and sister, and began to talk about
his fall from the car.
‘Thought He Was Dying’
Two Abilene men also came onto
the accident - scene. Raymond
Thomason, Sr., and W. D. Brook,
over. Jr., en route to San Angelo,
drove the Van Horn automobile,
along with Van Horn and his
young daughter. Into the Key City.
They stopped at View, where they
learned that Roger had regained
consciousness. "I thought he was
dying", the Air Force serviceman
said.
Van Horn believed that Roger
was trying to roll down the back
| window when the accident oc-
curred. “He had been riding in
1 cars all his life,” the father said,
be was probably trying to roll
down the window and got the
tion defeats.
Democratic Nations! Chairmao
Steven A. Mitchell also struck out
at Brownell's charges.
Mitchell said:
•The timing for release of a five-
year-old story about a dead person
(White) is obviously an attempt to
neutralise the effects of the beat-
Ing the Republican party took in
last Tuesday's elections.
"We read in the press that the
President authorized the release of
this story on Monday. Why was it
held up until Friday?
“This appears to be an attempt
by a group of Republican strate-
gists to divert the attention of the
voters In the 24th Congressional
District in California from the dif-
ficulties of the present administra-
tion. I hope the people of Califor-
nia see through the political
stunt.”
wrong handle.
“It sounded like a shot when the
door flew open.” Van Horn said.
He explained that the force of a
headwind and the speed of the car
jerked the door open once Roger
turned the handle. The door hinged
at the back part of the automobile
he said.
X-rays and further examination
are on schedule for Roger Sunday.
thrown from the pickup and strewn
along the highway One of the chil-
dren. Andrew Knight about 1 was
taken to Hamlin Hospital for treat-
ment.
Mrs. Knight was caught under
the vehicle. She was pronounced
dead on arrival at Stamford Sani-
tarium where she was taken by a
Kinney Funeral Home ambulance.
Funeral plans have not been
completed. The body is at Kinney
Funeral Home.
Vaughan Nolan, Herbert John-
ston and Douglas Koontz, all of
Hamlin, arrived at the scene of
the wreck a few minutes after it
happened. Joe Murray took Mrs.
Lindley and the children to Ham-
lin.
Mrs. Knight is survived by her
husband: one son, Alvin Winston.
Jr., at home: six daughters, De-
lores Rosetta and Vera Ann Wilson.
Barbara Jean Knight, Linda Lee
Knight, Dorothy Jo Knight, and
Sharon Kay Knight, all of Hamlin:
her father, Lee Upton of Mathis; a
brother, Robert L. Upton of Mathis:
and four sisters.
Highway Patrolmen Billy Davis
and Arthur Dyson of Stamford in-
vestigated the accident. 1
THE WEATHER
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Business Outlook Pg. 4
04 News 10-11
Education Week Opens .12
Editorials .........14
City Hall Beat .........15
Book News ......... 15
Amusements ..... 16, 17
History of Abilene 18
SECTION B
Taylor-Jones County Medical
Auxiliary ........ Poge 1
Garden Topics 2
Newcomers 4
Fashionably Speaking 6
Church News, radio, TV 10
SECTION C
Solves te medical
profession Pgs. 1-10
SECTION D
Sports.... Pgs. 1-5
Farm News; Markets 11
Snow, Floods
Claim 13 Lives
NEW YORK. Nov 7 P A sur-
prise pre-winter snowstorm com-
bined with jet winds and raging
flood tides created havoc in the
northeast last night and today and
cost at least 13 lives.
Tides climbing five to six feet
above normal high water levels
forced evacuation of thousands of
families on the New York. New
Jersey and New England coasts
v. s. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY-Clear to
partly cloudy and cold Sunday and Mon-
day. High temperature Sunday 55 de-
grees. Low Sunday night 38. High Mon-
day 55
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS Cloudy to
partly cloudy Sunday, colder in south
portion Monday partly cloudy and cool.
Fresh to strong northeast to north winds
on coast, gradually diminishing Monday.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS Cloudy to
partly cloudy and rather cold Sunday to higher ground.
Monday partly cloudy and cool. 1* -
WEST TEXAS Generally fair and
rather cold Sunday Monday partly cloudy,
warmer in afternoon
TEMPERATURES
Sat. A M. Nat. P. M.
51 1:30 46
51 ......2.30 45
50 3:30 .......45
50 4:30 .......45
51 .....5:30 ........ 44
51 ...... 6.30 ......44
Waves reportedly 20 feet high
crashed against the New England
coast. Winds of 60 to 70 miles an
#
10 30
11 30
12:30 —
low temperatures for 24
hours ending at 9:30 p. m 52 and 43
High and low temperatures same date
last year 72 and 50
Sunset last night 5:44 p. m.: sunrise th
day T:02 a m.: sunset tonight 5.43 p m.
Barometer reading at #:30 p m. 30.40
Relative humidity at 9:30 p. m. 0 %.
47
High and
hour whipped the area, with gusts
of 105 miles an hour recorded by
the weather station on top of New
Hampshire's Mt. Washington.
Several summer homes were
washed Into the Atlantic ocean at
Long Branch, N. J.
The storm halted train, subway
airplane and ferryboat service io
much of the New York metropoli-
tan area LaGuardia airport,
threatened with flood for a time
by waves pounding against a 15
foot dike, cancelled 68 flights.
Most of the transportation
services were restored as the
1
tides and wind# subsided later is
the day.
Fallen wires cut off electricity
to about 50,000 homes on Long
Island, leaving those with elec-
trically operated oil burners with-
out heat. Service gradually was
being restored. Temperatues hov-
ered slightly above freezing in the
metropolitan area today. Six thou-
sand phones were out in New Jer-
sey
Hundreds of automobiles, some
with women and children, were
trapped overnight in snow and ice
on Route 17 north of Tuxedo Park,
N. Y. Police with bulldozers from
a nearby construction project
broke through to them today.
Five sailors were killed in an
automobile crash on the New Jer-
. sey turnpike near Mount Holly.
Treacherous pavements generally
held traffic to a snail’s pace and
comparatively few auto erashes
were reported.
Four died in the storm in Penn-
sylvania. A man found dead at
4 am. today on a Brooklyn side-
See SNOW, Pg. 2 A. Cal. 3
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