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SWEETWATER, TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1952
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Fanatical
Frenzied 'Reds'
Hypnotized Into
Facing Bullets
PONGAM ICIiAND, y HCu Dee.
16—UP—The cimmaiu r ol this
prison island lo'cl T>"oc'lav how
more than 4.000 fanatic Commu-
nists "hypnotized" themselves in-
to staging a riot that ended onlv
when UN guards fired point blank
to save their own lives.
Lt. Col. George D. Miller.
Columbus, Ohio, said he ordered
his 300 American and South Ko-
rean guards to fire to prevent the
prisoners from breaking free and
wiping out the UN detachment.
The uprising, which took place
Sunday afternoon on this wind-
swept island off southern Korea,
cost the lives of 84 prisoners and
caused injuries to 118 others. Four
guards were injured.
Pongam Island holds a total of
9,000 Communist civilian internees
of whom more than 4,000 took part
in the uprising.
Face Bullets
Miller said the Communists
stood straight up and made no at-
tempt to dodge bullets fired from
machine guns, shot guns, carbines
and rifles at less than 30 yards.
Some tried to fight hand-to-hand
with the UN guards.
"They were standing four ranks
deep with their arms linked,"
Miller said. "They were singing
and swaying back and forth.
"After our first volley, the
wounded were held upright and
kept on singing. The ones that
were down were pulled up by the
arms."
He said the prisoners were so
"hypnotized" by their own sing-
ing that one wounded man still
was trying to sing as he was
carried to a hospital at Koje
Island, 10 miles away.
Resist Movement
Miller said when his men tried
to remove the dead and wounded
after the battle, the prisoners "lay
on the ground with locked arms."
See RIOT Page 8
Goodfellow Fund
Still Far Short
Although contributions are com-
ing in with increasing speed, there
is still a long way to go if the
program is to be a success, it was
announced Tuesday by officials of
the Goodfellows.
A check of the contributions—in-
cluding those • listed today—indi-
cates that a total of 5494.50 has
been contributed in cash so far.
This is less than was spent for the
Christmas program alone last
year.
Other contributions of toys have
been made that are helping the
Goodfellows in their work of see-
ing that all unfortunates of the city
have a little happiness for Christ-
mas—but more funds will be need-
ed to buy groceries and other ne-
cessities that will be required to
make the Yuletide season a hap-
py one.
Contributions Tuesday were: Or.
June Young, $25; Sweetwater Scot-
tish Rites, S25; Sweetwater Hospi-
tal employes, $21; Home Oairy,
$15: Wetsel's Beauty Shop, $10;
Local Chapter, P. E. O.. $5; J. A.
Spears, $5; O. O. Hollingsworth,
S5; A Friend, S5 and C. S. Uoyles,
$1.00.
Honor Guard From
Korean Vets Will
Be In Inauguration
SEOUL, Korea. Dec. 16—UP—An
honor guard of 90 to 100 veterans of
the Korean war is being chosen te
take part in the inauguration of
President Dwight Elsenhower, the
Eighth Army announced Tuesday.
The plan calls for three battle
veterans to be chosen from each of
the American regiments fighting in
Korea. They would carry the colors
of their respective units in the in-
augural parade.
It was understood the regimental
honor guard would be picked from
among the men due for rotation.
Once in the United States, they will
not return for additional duty in
Korea.
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IKE COMES HOME—President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower waves
to the crowd that welccmed him home Sunday from his 20,000-
mile round trip to Korea. Facing a battery of microphones and
newsmen at LaGuardia airport, Eisenhower said he favors a policy
of deeds and not words to induce the Communists to want peace in
Korea. (NEA Telephoto.)
Arthur And Ike To
Discuss Korean War
DIPLOMAT SUSPENDED
Vincent's Loyalty
Ruled 'Doubtful'
NEWYOllK. Dec. 16—UP—Pres-
ident-elect Eisenhower bided his
time Tuesday about stjieduling an
appointment with his old boss. Gen.
Douglas MacArthur. But every-
retary, James C. Hagerty, said
thing pointed to an early meeting.
Eisenhower scheduled a full day
Notorious Gangster
Pair Hanged, Back
To Back, In ia!l
TORONTO, Out., Dee. 16—UP—
Two of Canada's most notorious
gangsters, handcuffed and their
legs strapped.together, were hang-
ed back to back at the Don jail
Tuesday for the murder of a po-
liceman.
Steve Suchan and Leonard Jack-
son, one-timsj members of the in-
famous Edwin Alonzo Boyd gang
of bank robbers, went to the gal-
lows in the same prison from which
they once escaped last fall. They
were recaptured after Canada's
greatest manhunt.
Jackson hobbled his last steps
without his artificial foot, lt had
been confiscated before his break
from jail and was never returned.
Only jail officials, guards and a
priest saw the pair pay with their
lives for the ambush slaying last
March of detective Sgt. Edmund
Tong. The witnesses said the killers
faced death unafraid.
Potential Tests
On M. Easterwood
Well Under Way
Potential test on No. 1 Mrs. Mary
Easterwood well at Claytonville
was started 500 gallons of mud acid
and cleaning out. This well found
the reef high and is expected to
make one ot the best wells in the
field.
It is a Southern Production well.
Southern Pacific also is making fi-
nal tests on the Mrs. VV. R. Peters
No. 1, another big well.
General Crude No. 8 Mrs. G. T.
Webb is shut in for completion, lt
is producing a great deal of oil and
operators are working to cut out
water.
Edwin Aiken No 2 is at 5225
feet in lime and shale. At El Paso,
No. 1 Elliott is down to 5710. New
wells getting started include the
Collins near Busby, No. 1 VV. A.
Sloan at Bernecker, W. C. Staton
northwest of the airport.
Surface casing has been set on
Rowan and Hope city well No. 2-A.
Seaboard's Turner May No. 3 is
5.000: Hanev well north of Roscoe
down to 4490; Ohio No. 2 about
below 7,000.
Billie Hanks B-3 is setting sur-
face casing at 710; Hanks A-8 is
down to 2500. No. 1 Davis of Jack
Wrather northeast of Blaekwell is
starting.
At White Flat, No. 1 Kegan and
No. 1 Ross are drilling.
of appointments at his interim
headquarters in the Commodore
Hotel. MacArthur was not among
them.
The President-elect's press sec-
there had been no liaison between
Eisenhower's staff and MacAr-
thur's staff regarding the meeting
and that the Eisenhower office had
not been in touch with MacArthi
or his office.
The President-elect's press sec-
retary, James C. Hagerty, said
there had been no liaison between
Eisenhower's staff and MacAr-
thur's staff regarding the meeting
and that the Eisenhower office had
not been in touch with MacArthur
or his office.
However, there were signs that
the two might meet at the Eisen-
hower headquarters some time this
week to discuss MacArthur's plan
for solving the Korean problems.
The Eisenhower nre?" off;'."1 h-
conferred with cameramen about
how many newsreel and television
tripods, plus sound equipment, can
be squeezed into one room for in-
terviewing Eisenhower and impor-
tant visitors.
Whether MacArthur's "clear and
See MacARTlIUR Page 8
39 U. S. Seamen
Rescued Af Sea
LEGHORN Italy, Dec. 16 — UP—
The last of 39 American seamen
huddled on Ihe broken stern of the
U. S. Navy supply ship Grommet
Reefer were snatched to safety
Tuesday.
The last man was brought off
by one of four U. S. Navy heli-
copters from the carriers Midway
and Leyte. The carriers had raced
through the Llgurian Sea to this
northwesl Italian port where the
Grommet Reefer, with its cargo of
Christmas turkeys from American
troops, smashed on the rocks and
broke in two Monday.
"All hands removed. No in-
juries," came the word from res-
cue headquarters which told of the
happy, dramatic ending of the two-
day rescue operation by breeches
buoy, boat and helicopter.
O. H. Ludwick Is
Found Critically
Wounded in Head
O H. Ludwick, well-known local
barber, died in Sweetwater hospi-
tal Tuesday at 2:15 p. m. several
hours after having been found shot
through the head at his home here.
Funeral arrangements are pend-
ing, to be in charge of Cate-Spencer
Funeral Home.
O. H. Ludwick, about 55, well-
known Sweetwater barber and San-
ta Fe employe, was found critical-
ly shot through the back of the
head at his home, 1010 Oak Street,
about 10:30 o'clock Tuesday morn-
ing.
Mr. Ludwick was alone in his
room at the time. His wife and his
mother, Mrs. Lucy Ludwick, and
a Negro cook, Mattie Pollard, were
in other rooms of the house at the
time.
A Cate-Spencer ambulance was
called and Mr. Ludwick was rush-
ed to Sweetwater hospital, on ad-
vice of a doctor who had just ar-
rived.
It was found, physicians said,
that a bullet had gone into the back
of the head about one inch above
the ear. It ranged upward but
never did leave the cranial cavity
and little hope was held for the pa-
tient's recovery.
Police Officer Lloyd Rogers and
others, Deputy Sheriff W. L.
Sample, Highway Patrol Officer
Herman Seal investigated the
slmotin?. It was reported that a
.38 calibre bullet had been fired
so close that there was a powder
burn on the head.
Mr. Ludwick, long time resi-
dent hero, had recently returned
from Temple where he was under
hospital treatment for a time.
Thousands View
Casket of Cook
COMANCHE, Okla., Dec. 16—UP
—Some 10.000 curious persons who
filed past the casket of "mad dog"
killer William E. ' Billy > Cook have
left $25 in small change to buy flow-
ers for the executed gunman's fun-
eral.
Gene Boydstun, director of the
funeral home where Cook's body
lies, said that the donations were
mostly pennies, nlckles and dimes.
Cook once said defiantly that he
"never had a friend In the world."
Men, women and children have
been parading past the casket of
the young slayer of six persons
since Boydstun returned the body
here Sunday from California.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—UP—
John Carter Vincent's last hope of
salvaging his 28-year career in the
U.S. diplomatic service rested
Tuesday on the slim chance that
President Truman may overrule
his top Loyalty Review Board.
The board Monday night found
"reasonable doubt" as to Vincent's
loyalty, and recommended that he
be fired immediately. The State
Department suspended him as U.S.
minister to Tangier, and ordered
him back to this country. But it
said a final decision on firing him
will be left up to Mr. Truman.
The President is expected to de-
cide Vincent's fate after conferring
with Secretary of State Dean Ache-
son, who returns Saturday from
Paris. Even if Mr Truman should
overrule the board—which he nev-
er has done before—the decision
would be subject to review by the
new Republican administration
coming in next month.
While branding Vincent a loyal-
ty risk, the board completely clear-
ed another career diplomat, John
Paton Davies Jr. Both Davies and
Vincent were targets of Sen. Jo-
seph R. McCarthy 'R-Wis.) in his
campaign against alleged Commu-
nist influences in the State Depart-
ment. Both also had come under
fire from the Senate Internal Se-
curity subcommittee.
Board chairman Hiram Bingham
said any question of Davies' loyal-
ty was removed by confidential tes-
timony given to the board by Gen.
Walter Bedell Smith, head of the
Central Intelligence Agency, and
U.S. Abassador to Russia George
F. Kennan. Davies, a veteran of
many years diplomatic service in
China, is serving now as deputy
director of the U.S. Office of Politi-
cal Affairs at Bonn, Germany.
Vincent, 53, who once headed
the State Department's Far East-
ern division, was given a clean
bill of health by the department's
own loyalty board last Feb. 19.
After lengthy closed hearings on
charges made by McCarthy, ex-
Communist Louis Budenz and
others, the board sent Vincent back
to his post at Tangier* with an *
pression of "full confidence" in his
loyalty.
Bingham emphasized that his re-
view board did not find Vincent
"guilty of disloyaltym" But he said
Vincent's "conduct in office, as
clearly indicated by the record,
forces us reluctantly to conclude
that there is reasonable doubt as
to his loyalty to the government
of the United States."
Army Engineers
Blamed In Poor
Air Base Program
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—UP—
The Senate Preparedness subcom-
mittee disclosed Tuesday that the
Army has formally "admonished"
Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, retired for-
mer chief of Army Engineers, and
two other officers for improper su-
pervision of construction on Ameri-
can air bases in French Morocco.
The subcommittee, heade<J by
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson iD-Tex ),
made public letters from Secretary
of Army Frank C. Pace Jr. and
Secretary of Air Thomas K. Fin-
letter telling what they have done to
correct conditions criticized by the
Senate group.
The Johnson subcommittee had
accused both the Army and Air
Force of waste and inefficiency at
the bases which Army Engineers
built for the Air Force. It recom-
mended disciplinary action against
Pick and any other officers respon-
sible.
H. S. T. Warns
Against Cut
In Defenses
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 — UP—
President Truman warned the in-
coming Eisenhower administration
Tuesday against any sizable cut-
backs in defense spending as long
3s the nation is faced by a "very
hostile and very powerful" poten-
tial enemy.
In apparent reference to Presi-
dent-elect Eisenhower, Mr. Tru-
man said that every President
must face the fact that the "right"
course is not always the "popular"
one.
Mr. Truman, in a speech pre-
pared for delivery before the
alumni of the Armed Forces In-
dustrial College at Ft. Leslie J.
McNair, exDressed confidence that
the people know enough about the
situation to support the rearma-
ment program started by his ad-
ministration.
"I think they are wise enough
to know the difference between
true economy and false economy,"
Mr. Truman said. "They are wise
enough to know that anything that
raav be spent to prevent a new
world war is bound to be far less
I than would be spent to fight one.
'"V'hat is true it; money and in liven
' alike."
Eisenhower pledged during the
presidential campaign that a Re-
publican administration would pro-
vide more defense at less cost and
with less delay. He said the nation
would achieve both "solvency and
security" by cutting out waste and
providing better planning at top
political levels, and att he same
time look forward to tax reduc-
tion. Eisenhower said repeatedly
during the campaign that defense
expenditures could be cut without
impairing defense.
Florida Cold But
Other States Fair
By UNITED PRESS
It was generally fair over most
! of the nation, but Florida residents
j turned on the heat and buttoned up
to their topcoats.
Temperatures dipped to the
freezing point at Jacksonvill, Fla..
I early Tuesday morning, contrast-
i ed to an all-time high of 64 degrees
! at Cheyenne. Wyo., Monday. Pu-
eblo, Colo., reported a high of 69.
In other winter resort states, it
was 48 degrees at San Francisco
i Tuesday morning, and rain was ex-
I pected along the Pacific Coast.
School Men Discuss Safety
And "Democratic Attitudes"
Dr. Roy Hall, well-known Texas
educator, told the Sweetwater Area
school masters and trustees' joint
dinner here Monday night that
democratic attitudes includes
"really respecting other people
even though you despise the things
thev doo, the way they act and
look."
Education, he said "must devel-
op that kind of attitude to face the
proglems we must face As a fa-
ther, I must prepare my children
to live harmoniously in thj world
they are going to live in—not the
world that I lived in in my day. 1
have a right to not like the way
things are and to kick about it be-
cause it is changed -but I must
help prepare my children to live in
their world, not the one I knew."
More than 150 attended the joint
progress of school superintendents,
principals, supervisors and trust-
ees from seven counties over this
area.
Right Relationships
Roy Hall of the Kello'g Founda-
tion in the University of Texas co-
operative program, and incoming
executive secretary of the state
school board organization, was the
principal speaker. He said that
"for many years we have put a
lot of emphasis on teaching and
rightly so. But we are recognizing
now that administration nf schools
—the whole process—is more im-
portant than might be imagined.
You can't Just hire teachers
and leave It all to them. The qual-
ity of education is corrected to the
whole program.
"A good teacher can be thwar-
ted and frustrated by poor admin-
istration: a good administrator can
be thwarted by a non-active board;
a good board of trustees can be
held back by public p.Mthv " ,io
good results we want under the
democratic system comes by good
relations all the way.
"The democratic attitude and
getting along harmoniously is one
of the big objectives. The way a
man fee's about the people he
works without determines h's suc-
cess. The school head should mix
with his board and know their
problems, he should back and en-
courage his principals, he should
like children and believe in chil-
dren. That works through the
whole process."
If Democracy is to survive in
the next few years our ideals of
freedom, equality, respect for oth-
er people must not be "just a bun-
dle of ideals but actual practices,"
Hall said.
Red Cross Safety Work
Coordination of the Red Cross
and public school safety programs
was discussed by Jim Wells of
Sweetwater. International Harves-
ter Co. bus and truck safety and
maintenance head who has been
named Nolan County Red Cross
safetv chairman.
Wells was introduced by County
Chairman Sam Leland Glass. C. E.
Paxton of the Red Cross chapter
was also a special guest.
The speaker told of the first aid
classes of the Red Cross with a
goal of one out of every two per-
sons eventually trained for first
See SCHOOL MEN Page 5
27 U. S. Jets
Reds In
HOT AIR TREATMENT—The freezing cold in Korea loses its battles
with ground crewmen as they pipe 300-degree heat into US Air
Force Sabrejet engine at the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing in Korea.
Using a portable heating unit and two hoses, the men heat the
outside of the aircraft as well as the jet's engine, melting all ice
of the Sabre with searing blasts of hot air. (NEA Telephoto.)
Soviet Tried To
Form Spy Ring?
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec.
16—UP—Informed sources said
Tuc:t*'"y j U y Russian in ■ he
United Nations lost his job be-
cause he tried to organize a Red
spy ring in the United States.
The sources said the official was
Nicolai Skvortsov, who had been
personal assistant to Constantin
Zinchenko. assistant secretary gen-
eral of the UN in charge of Securi-
ty Council affairs.
UN Secretary General Trygve
Lie fired Skvortsov two months
ago while the Russian was on a
twice-extended leave in Moscow.
Informants said Lie had received
Kiwanis Install
New Officers At
Dinner Meeting
New Sweetwater Kiwanis Club
officers will be installed tonight at
the club's annual "ladies night"
night" inauguration party with
Lt. Rov. J. P. White of Lamesa
as installing officer.
New officers are President J. W.
Paten; vice-president, Hugh Clift;
second vice-president, B. F. Kel-
ley: secretary. Forest Koen Jr.:
treasurer, Roger Eaton; directors
—L. E. Arnold, Horace Curlee. R.
L. Kerr, Ellis McJunkin. J. D. Mc-
Keown, Wayne H. McNeill, J. L.
Haney.
j a one-page note last September ap-
j prising him that the U.S. believed
i SkvorlsuW', 1 as trying to recruit
J spies by operating outside the UN
under an assumed name.
THE WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Temperatures
—High Tuesday 64 degrees, low-
Monday night 36 degrees. Baromet-
er reading 30.30 and steady. Con-
tinued fair, somewhat warmer with
! increasing winds. Relative humid-
ity 35 per cent.
WEST TEXAS — Fair through
Wednesday. A little warmer Tues-
day. Low 34 to 44.
Fight
Four MIGs Knocked
Out in Savage Air
Battle Ranging Up
To 45,000 Altitude
SEOUL. Korea. Dec. 16—UP—
American Sahr?iets shot down four
Communist MIG-15 jet fighters,
probably destroyed one and dam-
aged another Tuesday in 13 sav-
aee aer'->' dogfights over nor+h-
westem Korea.
Twenty-seven Sabres tangled
with 32 MIGs during the day in
duels ranging from 43.000 feet to
the 800-foot level.
Jet aces Col. Royal N. Baker of
McKinney, Tex., and Capt. Leonard
Lilly of Manchester, N.H., shot
down their sixth MIGs Tuesday.
Baker received half-credit for
downing a MIG with Capt. Jack E.
j Mass of K^tbank. N.J
i Two other destruction claims
were credited to Capt. Manuel J.
Fernandez Jr. and Capt. Clyde A.
\ Curtin of Portland, Ore., who dam-
! aged a MIG Mopday.
The possible destruction claim
went to Col. James K. Johnson of
Phoenix, Ariz.
Fighter-bombers, unmolested by
the MIGs, struck at rail lines and
supplies west of Haeju and east of
Pyongyang in North Korea. Other
planes struck at Red positions
along the battleline.
Ground fighting slowed to monot-
onous probing attacks along the
frozen 155-mile battlefront. Heavi-
est fighting was concentrated in the
Sniper Ridge sector where South
Koreans repulsed Red attacks.
Capt. Clyde A. Curtin of Port-
land, Ore., who damaged a MIG
Monday, shot down Tuesday's MIG
| "before the pilot knew what hit
him." Lt. Ira M. Porter of Hous-
ton was credited with the proba-
ble in a faster-than-sound dog-
fight.
j The Sabres damaged two MIGs
Monday in six dogfights with near-
; ly 200 Red jets. Eight other dam-
! age claims were made by Sabrejet
pilots, but they awaited confirma-
tion by gun camera film.
It was the first time in five days
the MIGs had ventured into North
1 Korea from Manchuria. It was the
greatest show of strength by the
Red air force in weeks.
Nuisance Red probing attacks
were reported southwest of Kum-
song and west of Punchbowl on the
'east central front. Fighting else-
where was confined to patrol skir-
; mishes.
Yeggs Rob East Ridge
School Vault Of $205
Burglars broke through the walls l partment, investigated the burg,
of the vault at the East Ridge j lary which was discovered and re-
school here Monday night, taking i ported to police at
an estimated $205 in cash, accord-
ing to a check of the records of the
school.
The yeggs apparently entered the
building through a window into the
auditorium, hammered a hole
through the foot thick wall of the
vault room and ramsacked the
vault, the teachers room and Prin-
cipal Ken Newton's office.
aken belonged to
Special recognition will also be
given to the new Texas-Oklahoma | The money
district oficers who are Sweetwater the cafeteria, one of the art class-
men this year: District Governor j es, the candy and drink accounts
Bailey G. Choate: executive sec-j and to funds collected by the stu-
retary Wade Forester: treasurer. 1 dents for Christmas purposes.
J O Kirk;Ki-Notes editor. James City Detective Lloyd Roger? and
G Tucker. | Sgt. A. B. McGuire of the police de-
DiSaHe Expected To Be Chosen
To Finish Term As Stabilizer
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16 —UP—
Informed sources said they expect
President Truman Friday to ap-
point Michael V. DiSalle economic
stabilizer for the remainder of the
Democratic administration.
The sources said they expect the
announcement in time for DiSalle
to attend a 2 p m. est news con-
ference which has been scheduled
by Defense Mobilizcr Henry II.
Fowler. Fowler invited stabiliza-
Fine And Jail Term
Assessed Here For
Beer Selling Case
I
Fred Rivera ol Sweetwater was ]
found Built}- by a jury In County
Court here Tuesday on charges of
selling beer in a dry territory in vi-
olation of the law. County Attor-
ney Jim Pearson Introduced evi-
dence that he had a prior convic-
tion .
Fine of S200 plus a 30 day jail
sentence was returned Jury was
composed of C. L. Fry, foreman,
Andy Brown, Bill McRorcy, Nolan
Campbell. E. A. Marth and Fred
Williams. Clyde Boose was counsel
for the defendant
In a plea of guilty entered be-
fore County Judge Lea Boothe, Joe
B. Gordon. 38, of Fort Worth was
fined $125 and costs on charges of
driving while intoxicated.
tion officials to attend the news
conference.
DiSalle. the former price stabi-
lizer. would succeed Roger L. Put- j
nam as economic stabilizer. Put-!
nam has resigned, effective Jan. 1 j
or whenever Mr. Truman appoints ;
a successor
The president said last week that [
DiSalle was being considered for
the job as part of the administra- i
lion's efforts to hold wage-price j
controls together until the new re- j
publican administration takes over j
Jan. 20.
The new Wage Stabilization Com- j
mittee. which has been given func-
tions of the wrecked Wag Stabi-
lization Board, was hard at work
on another pile ol cases involving
pay hike requests.
Committee Chairman Charles G.
Killingsworth said emergency com-
mittees also will have to be set
up in at least seven cities to handle
duties formerly assigned to region-
al WSB panels.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—UP—
A federal grand jury Tuesday
indicted Far East Expert Owen
Lattimore on seven counts of
, perjury.
8.25 o'clock
Tuesday morning.
The officers reported no clues
but an examination of the hole in
the wall of the vault indicated that
at least one of the yeggs was a
small man. An attempt by a 180
pound man to enter the vault
through the hole Tuesday morning
indicated that a smaller man had
entered the vault.
Principal Newton said that pa-
pers in his desk, the desks and
tables in the teachers' room and
the vault were scattered over the
floors of the rooms and in waste
baskets. He said that indications
pointed to a thorough search of
the rooms having been made.
The wall of the vault room was
constructed of concrete tile and
brick 12 inches thick. Shelving in-
side the vault was backed by ply-
wood which also was broken out to
admit the intruder. The hole in the
wall was large on the outside but
tapered to an opening approximate-
ly 14 to 16 inches in diameter in-
side.
The door of the vault can be op-
ened from the outside and was
used by the yeggs to leave the
vault room.
British Admiral
To Be Appointed
Sn Mediterranean
PARIS Dec 16—UP—The North
Atlantic Treaty Organization eoun-
eil approved Tuesday an Anglo-
American compromise which will
name British Admiral Earl Mount-
batten head of the NATO Mediter-
ranean naval commands.
Prime Minister Winston Church-
ill was expected to announce Earl
Mountbatlen's appointment as nav-
al commander of the strategic Me-
diterranean Tuesday afternoon in
the House of Commons.
The long squabble between Bri-
tain and the United States over
the Mediterranean command was
ended by the NATO council Tues-
day at the second session of a con-
lerence which opened Monday.
Under the compromise American
Adm. Robert B. Carney, NATO
southern front commander, will re-
tain control of Allied naval forces
supporting ground warfare.
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 297, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 16, 1952, newspaper, December 16, 1952; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth284005/m1/1/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.