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THE WEATHER
Temperature, high Thursday,
64; low this morning, 50; baro-
meter, 30.04, steady. Mostly
cloudy, unsettled, slightly warm-
er.
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Coke's Group
Push Inquiry
In Election
Investigator Says
He Will Seek To
Show Alice Fraud
1 ALICE, Sept. 16, (UP)— Ten
witnesses were subpenaed to
appear today before a Jim
AVells County Grand Jury inves-
tigating charges of fraudulent
voting in last year's U. S. Sena-
torial runoff election.
Nine of the persons were be-
lieved to he among the final
voters at Box 13, where defeat-
ed candidate Coke Stevenson
claimed vote manipulation oc-
curred.
They were Mrs. Claude McCon-
nell, Manuel Sanches, Tomas
Garcia, Eduardo Rios, Olivera
Herrera, Jesus Cantu,
tor Cerda, Mrs. J. W.
and Mrs. D. Lobrecht.
Stevenson lost the
hy the narrow margin
\otes throughout the state. Since
then, he and his supporters
have claimed that 20,'i votes
11\ ere added for Johnson in Box
M3 after the ballots were tabu-
Kited.
Also stthpenaed to appear to-
day was Luis Salas, election
judge for the box.
Yesterday, the special grand
jury heard testimony from
three men—Clarence Martens,
County Democratic Executive
Chairman; B. F. Donald, CounV
Executive Committee Secretary,
and Olin F. Love, an ardent
* Stevenson supporter.
The investigation was believ-
ed touched off Tuesday when
Kellis Dibrell, a Stevenson in-
vestigator, appeared before the
jury.
Dibrell said lie presented evi-
dence which could "establish
criminal responsibility on a lo-
cal level."
Jr., Hec-
Mitchell
election
of 8'
COLLISION TAKES THREE LIVES—Impact of a. collision between a passenger car anil a
bus near Wichita Fails, Texas, separated the auto's body from ils chassis and killed the three
occupants of lite car. Dead were Mr. and Mrs. Luther Jackson, Madill, Oklahoma, and their
five-year-old daughter, Linda Sue. (NEA TelephotoL
Bad Weather KeepslHearings On
Flying Party Here Employment
Bill Asked
i Lewis Shuts Down
Payments To Mine
Workers From Fund
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 —
(UP)—John L. Lewis today an-
nounced suspension of benefit
payments from the United Mine
> Workers' welfare and retire-
- rnent fund.
The UMW president made the
announcement after a five-hour
meeting of the fund's board of
trustees, whicli he heads.
Lewis has accused several
coal companies, particularly
those in the south of "default-
ing" on their 20-cent-a-ton con-
tributions to the multi-million-
dollar fund.
^ He has threatened to shut the
industry down if the payments
are not brought up to date.
NEW All? TERMINAL
AUSTIN, Sept. Hi, (UP) —
The Secretary of State's office
listed a.s incorporated today the
I'ort Worth Air Terminal, Fort
Worth. Capital stock was re-
corded at $250,000.
The aerial caravan touring
Texas to stimulate interest in
flying spent Thursday night and
Friday morning in Sweetwater
due to rainy weather that made
flying inadvisable.
The party landed about 5 p.
m. Thursday at municipal air-
port for a short stay but found
it necessary to pay Sweetwater
an overnight visit.
"We have en joyed it and are i
delighted to find this a much
bigger and more important place
than inar.y of us had "thought,"
several commented.
Scheduled stops at Lubbock,
Plainview, Amarillo and Chil-
dress—including a dinner dance
last night ai Plainview—had to
be cut off the schedule. The
group planned to leave Friday
afternoon for Vernon and Wk'i-
ita Falls.
The 3,100 mile air tour of
Texas was arranged to stimu-
late interest in small craft avi-
ation and demonstrate that fly-
ing is both safe and practical
for all types of business.
The party had traveled 1,600
miles since leaving Houston
when it arrived here. The tour
is scheduled to conclude at Gal-
veston Sunday. Many planes be-
gan leaving the 170 plane aerial
caravan with advent of bad wea-
ther Wednesday and Thursday
until only about 20 were in the
party here. However others will
likely rejoin the group on the
last legs of the trip if conditions
improve.
Among those here were Jack
M. Sherman* of Dallas, director
of the Texas State Aviation As-
sociation; W. II. Bahman of
Commerce, association presi-
dent; Howard Bumbaugh of San
Antonio, vice-president; G. P.
Pearson, state representative
from Navasota; Ray Taylor,
state representative from Fort
Worth; Asberry Meadows of
Austin, chief of the Texas Aer-
nautic Commission; Miss Zieei
Hunter, member of the commis-
sion.
Practically all types of indus-
trial users were among the
group. These included aircraft
See W RATHER On Page Eight
B-36 Crashes IntoJ®.w 5ai"?In
Lake Worth Waters X
Inquiry Completed In
Army Sergeant's Death
After a week of thorough-go-
ing inquiry by county officials
and the Nolan County grand
jury into the cause of the death
of St. James A. Eggleston here
on Sept. 7, District Attorney El-
<< don Mahon and Justice of the
Peace M. C. Manroe stated that
no evidence of foul play had
been found in connection with
the death.
Mahon said that evidence de-
veloped Indicates that death
came as a result of strangulation
caused by vomiting from violent
illness. Arsenic poisoning found
in the stomach was blamed in
part for the violent illness which
j produced vomiting so tjiat the
man's lungs were filled and all
air passages were blocked.
Eggleston died while alone in
a cell in Nolan County jail where
he was being held temporarily
following arrest on a disturbance
charge. He became ill while
running as officers sought to ar-
rest him, It. was stated. Presence
of poison in his stomach at the
time he was placed in the jail
was not suspected, officers said.
Justice Manroe said that he
* would report in his inquest that
death was due to strangulation,
and would include the autopsy
report in his Inquest.
Copies of the findings will be
furnished representatives of the
armv who have joined in the In-
quiry.
"We have made a thorough in-
vestigation of all evidence and
the grand jury looked Into the
matter for almost three days,"
A District Attorney Mahon said.
"Rumors circulated that Eggles-
struck or beaten
lit; without foun-
ton had been
were found to
dation."
Autopsy Hrport
Summary of the autopsy re
port signed by three local dot
tors stated "The death in thi
case was the direct result of as-i
piration (medical term here
it.set I meaning removal of fluids
from a cavity of xurtion) of
vomited material within the
lungs, and asphyxiation result-
ing front the complete obstruc-
tion of the air passages."
This wiis to be incorporated in
Justice of the Peace M. ('. Man-
roe's inquest report as corooncr,
The full autopsy rep n t was sign-
ed bv .1. K. Rii hardsi .i, M. D.;
Phillip W. Taylor, M. I)., and
Sam II. Loeb, M. D.
The lengthy autopsy report
was understood to have been
placed before the grand jury.
The doctors said, according to
District Attorney Eltlon Mahon,
that there was no evidence of
any blows having been struck
nor any foul play.
Rigor mortis bad not set in at
the time of the autopsy but the
head and throat were purple.
The lungs were not collapsed but
contained fluid similar to the
vomit fluid from the stomach.
The autopsy opinin was de-
ifnitely that death was tine to
strangulation from violent vom-
iting that got into the lungs and
blocked air passage.
Arsenic Pound
A report from the state labor-
tory of the department of public
safety showed 80 milligrams of
See INQUIRY On Page Eight
CHOICE FOR S U P R E M
COURT—U. S. Circuit Judge
Sherman Minton, an all-out
new dealer during the Roose-
velt era, will be named as
President Truman's choice to
succeed Wiley It. Rut ledge on
the Supreme Court. (NEA
Telephoto).
Pioneer Will
Move Offices
To Love Field
DALLAS, Sept. 16 (UP)
jPioneer airlines announced to-
day il would riinve its 300-em-
ploye organization and offices
I from the Houston Municipal Air-
port to Love Field in Dallas.
Company President Robert J.
I Smith said, "the move from our
present quarters in Houston has
been necessitated by the termi-
nation of Pioneer's lease on
the Texas National Guard Pro-
perty it now occupies."
Definite plans for the actual
moving of Pioneer's facilities
and personnel have not been
completed, Smith said.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (IIP)
A Republican today joined
Southern Democrats in com-
plaining that a Senate labor sub-
committee approved fair employ-
ment legislation without hear-
ings or adequate discussion.
To criticism from Sen. Forrest
('. Donnell, it., Mo., subcommit-
tee Chairman James E. Murray,
I)., Mont., replied that since 1044
there have been 43 days of hear-
ing on fair employment' meas-
ilies—none of which survived
Senate debate.
i Donnell noted, however, that
there have been no hearings this
year anil that the legislation is
not identical with past bills on
the subject.
The full lahor committee de1.
ferred action on the subcommit-
tee measure for lack of a
quorum. Sen. Lister Hill, D.,
Ala., has said he wil insist on
"complete hearings" before the
full committee acts.
Sponsors of the measure be-
lieve they will get committee ap-
proval this year but do not ex-
pect the bill will get before the
Senate until next. year.
Cotton Belt Lines
Tied Up By Picket
Line In MP Strike
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16 (UP) —
j All Cotton Belt Railway service
between here and Gale, 111., was
Itied up totlay by striking Mis-
souri Pacific employes but Gulf,
I Mobile and Ohio trains high-
[ balled t']rough picket lines.
The Cotton Belt said its 10
j trains—two passenger antl eiglu
freight trains— which operate in
antl out of St. Louis have been
cancelled because of picket lines
set up by Missouri Pacific Strik-
ers on lines used jointly by the
two railroads.
It was the second time sir.ee
the walkout of 5,000 engineers,
firemen, trainmen and conduc-
tors began on the Missouri Pa-
cific last Friday that the Cotton
Belt's service was curtailed.
Freight cars of the Cotton
Belt were rerouted out of St.
Louis to Memphis, Tenn., over
the Illinois Central. Passengers
scheduled for the line were re-
' routed over other railroads.
First Fatal Crash
Of Superbombers
Unexplained—Divers
Recover Bodies
FORT WORTH, Tex., Sept. 16,
(UP)— Two bodies were pull-
ed totlay from the submerged
wreckage of a B-36 Superbomb-
er which crashed into Lake
Worth last night during an at-
tempted takeoff.
A Navy — trained
dive r r eco vered t h e
bodies and continued the search
for two more crewmen. One
body was recovered last night,
thai of T-Sgt. William G. Sey-
mour.
Eight of the 13 crewmen
aboard were rescued immedi-
ately after the accident, the first
fatal crash of one of the sky
giants the Air Force bought to
carry the atom bomb any place
iri the world.
The eight crewmen were re-
leased from the hospital after
overnight observation. None
suffered more than shock.
Salvage operations to pull the
plane from the waters, which
adjoin Carswell Air Force Base,
home of the 8th Airforee, will
begin when the remaining two
bodies are recovered.
The liotlies pulled from the
wreckage lotlav were not im-
mediately identified. The four
missing airmen had been iden-
tified earlier by Carswell Air
Force authorities as 1st Lt. Her-
man S. Styles, Jr., 823 Barrett
Place, San Antonio, Tex.; Capt.
Harold L. Kernodle. (no street
address listed) I lampden-Syd-
ney, Va.; Maj. Joseph L. Lem-
ming, Jr., 1830 Richmond, Day-
ton, O., and M-Sgt. John G.
Stanko, 70S N. 11th St., Apollo,
Pa.
Kernodle was identified as an
extra pilot, Styles and Lemming
as navigator-bombardier- radar
operators, and Stanko as an en-
gineer.
Maj. Toy B. Husband, the pilot
of the big ship, said Stanko help-
ed him out of the plane.
"Everything was normal un-
til just before the crash," Hus-
band said. "I made all my checks
and the instruments showed the
equipment was functioning cor-
rectly.
"During the takeoff run we
were airborne for a few seconds.
1 don't think we ever got more
than five or 10 feet in the air
. . . then the plane settled down
again.
"1 saw we were running out
of runway and going to crash.
I tried to apnlv the brakes and
See B-36 Oil Page Eight
YOUNGSTER PLAY'S IN WOMEN'S NATIONAL GOLF
TOURNEY—Marlene Bauer, ir>, of Los Angeles, tees off in
I lie quarter finals of 491 li Woman's National Golf Tourney at
the Merion Golf Club, Ardmore, Pa. Miss Bauer shot a 74,
uliich is the best round to date in the tourney. Watching her
drive is Margaret Gunther <>l Memphis. (NEA Telephoto).
Mahon Talks To Farm Bureau
About New Farm Legislation
Lake Catches Half
Foot Of Water As
More Showers Fall
Hard rain showers Thursday
night raised this year's rainfall
total in Sweetwater to 20.16
inches, Weatherman M. C. Man-
roe reported.
Rainfall here was .49 of an
j inch antl at Lake Sweetwater
j it amounted to .86 Thursday
] night. The lake came up another
| half foot making a total of two
feet for the week.
Good rains were general over
all of this part of West Texas
antl will help pastures and fall
planting. Much cotton is open
j but damage is not expected to be
I heavy because the showers fell
| gently for the most part.
By I'tilled Press
General rains fell over Texas
yesterday, last night and to-
day and the Dallas Weather
Bureau said it probably would
he late tomorrow before skies
start clearing.
The rains varied from a soak-
ing 3.37 inches at Renville in
South Texas to traces elsewhere.
Del Rio, on the border, receiv-
ed a heavy thundershower be-
tween midnight and 6:30 a. m.
that dumped 3.17 inches of rain
there.
The rains were considered
fine for fall crops but were a
major handicap to picking cot-
ton. The rains have been inter-
mittent over the state since a
cool front moved into Texas
last Tuesday.
Temperatures yesterday in
South Texas were high with
Dilley reporting 100 degrees,
Laredo 99 and Uvalde 96. This
morning, the lows ranged from
4S at Dalhart to 80 at Browns-
\ ille.
Some additional rainfall re-
ports included Hondo 1.54 inch-
es; San Angelo 1,23; Graham
.97" t'\le 1.70. and Seymour
1.20.
Rites Saturday For
Mrs. S. W. Curtis,
Long-Time Resident
Tension Is Increasing Upon
Big Industry's Labor Front
Tension increased on the na-
tion's labor front today as tipie
ran out for a steel strike deadline
and John L. Lewis refused to say
whether he already had nailed his
soft coal diggers out on strike.
Latest developments Increased
fears that nearly 1,000,000 work-
ers would go on strike against
the nation's basic industries
within a matter of days. About
K7.000 persons already were on
strike In labor's fight for a fourth
round of wage increases.
(TO President Philip Murray
refused to talk about renewing
negotiations with the steel indus-
tries unless the firm accepted
a fact-finding board's recommen-
dation for a management-financ-
ed welfare program for the 500,-
000 steehvorkers.
Murray and U. S. Steel Presi-
dent Benjamin Falrless took
their case to the public in an ex-
change of angry telegrams in
which each accused the other
sitle of "responsibility" for any
strike that develops. c
The steelworkers are schedul-
ed to strike Sept. 25.
A slight ray of hope was seen
in Lewis' announcement that he
would meet again to discuss con-
tracts with northern and west-
er operators Wednesday arid
with southern operators on
Tuesday.
The CIO Electrical Workers
were still considering whether
to take a strike vote among 200,-
000 employes of General Electric
and Westinghouse in 15 states.
Mrs. Emma Mardin
Funeral At Roscoe
Funeral services for Mrs. Em-
ma Hardin, 80, who died in
Lubbock Thursday, were held at
Roscoe Friday afternoon at 2:30
p. m. Services were in charge of
the Wells Funeral Home.
She formerly lived at Wastel-
lu. She was the mother of Jerry
Hardin of Wastella.
Funeral services will he held
at 2 p. m. Saturday for Mrs.
Molly Ellen Curtis, 86, Nolan
County resident for 61 years
who died at her home. -Ill Pop-
lar, at 5:10 Thursday afternoon
following a long illness. She was
the widow of S. W. Curtis.
The funeral will be held at
the Church of the Nazarene
with the Rev. J. B. Bickford,
pastor, officiating, assisted by
Ihe Rev. A. L. Patterson of the
Fundamental Baptist Church.
Interment will be in the, governmenti co
Sweetwater Cemeterv with RU,ianest trea.
Wells Funeral Home directing. D 1
Pallbearers will be L. W. Scott,
Raymond Bishop, Delas Reeves,
Alvin Trowbridge, J. S. Staton,
antl Lester Reeves.
Listed as honorary pallbear-
ers are: Dr. R. R. Allen. N. D.
Reeves, A. C. Forgan, John Eid-
sor.>, George Outlaw, and Clint
Gardner.
Mrs. Curtis was horn in Bos-
que County on March 20. 1863.
She was married in Hill County
on Sept. 30, 1877, to Mr. Curtis,
and they came to Nolan County
soon afterward. Mr. Curtis
died in December, 1946.
Surviving are two sons, Salem
Curtis of Denver, Colo., and
Charley Curtis of East Vaughn,
N. M., a daughter, Mrs. Frona
Reeves of Sweetwater; 13 grand-
children, 14 great-grandchild-
ren, four nieces, and two neph-
ews. One son, George Curtis,
died in January of this year.
Farmers must find some way
to adjust their production in
view of huge surpluses, but any-
such program must be under-
stood and accepted by the farm-
jers, Congressman George Ma-
hon told the bi-district Farm
Bureau Convention in Big
I Spring or. Thursday.
j "Any program that is cram-
med down the producers' throats
from Washington cannot suc-
ceed," he told the crowd of 400.
On a show of hands, the
meeting voted overwhelmingly
in favor of controlled cotton
production, 90 per cent parity
on cotton and the rural tele-
phone bill passed by the House
arid now before the senate. Ma-
hon saitl he personally favored
a 90 per cent parity bill
"straight across the board." The
Anderson bill likely to be passed
provides 90 percent in 1950 and
a drop to 75 percent after next
year.
Miss Fern* Hvde, Nolan Coun-
ty Farm Bureau representative
was chosen maid of honor of the
convention in competition, com
ing within one point of winning
Ihe queen honors.
Among those attending from;
the Nolan County Farm Bureau j
were: President and Mrs. Homer
McCleod of Roscoe, Secretary I
Virgil Williams of Sweetwater, j
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Fisher of!
Roscoe, Mr. and Mrs. Jess
Brown of Nolan, Mrs. Jack
Freeman, Miss Fern Hyde, Al-
vin Smith, Sam Whisennant, Ed
P. Pietzeh, of Roscoe, Walter
Hammond of Nolan, County
Ager.'t M. B. Templeton and
AAA Administrator Demp Kear-
ney of Sweetwater, Ben Egger
of Nolan.
Don Roy Reported
: Suffering Light
Attack Of Polio
of
D.
Dor.. Roy, 6-year-old son
Police Chief and Mrs. A.
Roy, who has been under obser-
vation in the polio ward at Hen-
dricks Memorial Hospital at
Abilene, has been found to be
suffering from a comparatively
light case of bulbar type polio,
it was learned Friday.
"We are assured that he has
passed the critical stage," Mrs.
Roy said. "He is receiving spe-
cial attention and is resting fair-
ly well."
Spain To Be Treated More
As Partner By West Powers
MARKETS AT A GLANCE
By United Press
Stocks firm in moderately ac-
tive trading.
Bonds irregular; U. S. govern-
ments did not trade.
Curb stocks irregularly high-
er.
Cotton1 futures irregular.
Grains In Chicago: Wheat,
corn, oats, and soy bean futures
up, rye irregular.
Yugoslavia Says In
Warning To Russia,
'Flirting With War'
| BELGRADE, Yugoslavia,
I Sept. 16 (UP)—The Yugoslav
commenting on the
apest treason trial, warned
the Kremlin and its satellites to-
day they were flirting with war
in their attempts to overthrow I
Marshal Tito.
A government statement said j
charges against the Tito regime j
contained in the Budapest trea- j
son indictment against former i
Hungarian Foreign Minister
Laszlo Rajk and seven others ]
had been trumped up in Mos-
cow.
Pastor Speaks On
Building Youth
In Community Life
Building the youth of the com-
munity was the topic of a talk
by the Rev. Robert E. Bowden
at. the Ktwanis Club luncheon
Friday noon at the Blue Bonnet
Hotel.
"1 joined the Kiwanis club
because of ils slogan, 'we
build,'" the speaker said.
"It is important to build
right—as illustrated by the par-
able of building on the rock antl
building on the sand. "If we
built I a community, it is neces-
sary that we start by building
at home, to show more concern
for the social life of the com-
munity and raise the standards
of life in our community."
PARIS, Sept. 16 (UP)—Diplo-
matic circles today believed
Spain henceforth will he treated
moi ■ and more as partner by
the western powers until
I changes make a formal alliance |
possible.
That was the general reaction j
of diplomats here to these devel-
opments; The official visit of j
I King Abdullah of Hashemite Jor- j
dan to Spain, the visit of United
Stales warships, and a Washing-
ton announcement that several!
congressmen wil go to Spain this j
month to see Gen. Francisco i
I Franco.
Tariff-Cutting To
e Pushed On 400
items By President
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 —
(UP) President Truman will
follow up congressional exten-
sion of the tariff-cutting pro-
gram with announcement of
new rate slashes on more than
400 items, it was reporled to-
day.
Chairman Walter F. George,
D., Ga., of the Senate Finance
Committee said he understood
the president would announce
the new levies on imports soon,
probably next week. The re-
duced tariffs, he said, will be
based on agreements reached at
the international tariff confer-
ence at Annecy, France.
The president was assured of
authority to negotiate such tar-
iff cuts when1 the Senate late
yesterday voted 62 to 19 to ex-
tend the 15-year-old reciprocal
trade program until June, 1951.
Since the House already had ap-
See TRAFFIC On Page Eight
Although their respective gov-
ernments time and again have
stated clearly that they do not
approve the present regime in
Spain, diplomats here say there
is one point on which everybody
now agrees, including King Ab-
dullah himself.
On the other side, France be-
lieves that in backing Abdullah's
j anti-Communist stand in the Mid-
dle East he improves his position
i with western powers and the
' number of his supporters among
: the United Nations.
Franco welcometl Admiral
j Richard L. Conally and Rear Ad-
miral George R. Henderson and
I the United States squadron
| which had come to inaugurate
officially what some regard as
the resumption of normal rela-
! lions between the U. S. Navy and
j the Spanish government.
Many Local Fans To
Drive To Odessa-
Others To 'Radio'
"Go West, young man, go
west."
That was the talk of the
town this morning as hundreds
of Sweetwater townsfolk pre-
pared to embark for Odessa.
The reason for this western
movement? No, they haven't
struck more oil in Odessa.
It's simply because the Sweet-
water Mustangs ar.d the Odessa
Bronchos, two of the state's top
high school football elevens
tangle at Broncho Stadium to-
night.
Radio Station KXOX will
make a play by play broadcast
of the game. Reports this morn-
ing from Odessa indicated that
the weather was fine.
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