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Republicans Protest County Election Judges
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Orange Leade
Associated Fn
ORANGE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1954
8 Pages
NUMBER M
—Photo, by Dick
CRASH! REAR END BUMPING—Two Naval Station sailors were Injured when their car cram-
med into the rear end of a parked truck on Green avenue near 15th street last night. Lett is the
crash car driven by Daniel J. Murphy. Right is George Richter's Bakery truck which was knocked
over a highway marker and into a utility pole. Murphy and a companion, Floyd W. Ackcrson, were
injured and taken to the Naval Station Dispensary for treatment._
—atari photo by Ralph Rarnra
BANCROFT OPEN HOUSE Bancroft School District’s new classroom building is now in use
and Tuesday night an open house ceremony is planned. The school’s PTA is in charge of the affair.
Korea Offers Division
To Fight Reds in Indochina
Bill ReducinJ["*MwTlH
FHA Terms
Is Readied
By ROWLAND EVANS JR.
WASHINGTON (AP)
In Choosing List
Chairman of GOP
Committee Claims
Still Plenty of Hot Words for Democrats
GOP Soft Pedals Communism Issue
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice
President Nixon has advised fellow
Republicans to avoid “indiscrim-1
inate’’ attacks on the opposition
on the issue of communism, while
accusing the Democrats of losing
at the conference table victories
won in war. ( f ' ■
Whether by coincidence or In
line with President Eisenhower's
West Orange Count
Shows Pupil Gain
Of 114 Over 1953
The West Orange Independent
School District has completed its
scholastic census and the figures
added up to about what the super-
intendent. Mrs. Mildred Crawford,
inought they would be.
Mrs. Crawford had estimated a
gain of a little over a hundred
and it came to 114. The census
taker this year found 847 white
students in West Orange as com-
pared to 733 in 1953.
There are also 10 Negro students,
exactly the same as Iasi year.
These are transferred into the Or-
ange district.
To Call for Bids
The new census figures will be
before the West Orange Board of
Education when it meets Monday
night for a conference with its ar-
chitects, Goleman and Rolfe.
Plans for a new school building
for the district are to be finaled
during the session and Mrs. Craw-
ford said today that bids may be
called for next week.
The superintendent still was un-
sure as to what grades will be
taught in her own school when the
new building is opened with the
start of next term.
New Housing To Open
West Orange now transfers all
students above the eighth grade
to Orange and is hoping to teach
the ninth grade in its own district
when the new term begins.
Mr*. Crawford was uncertain as
to whether this would be possible
after the increase in student count,
a figure which she expects to rise
whenever a new public housing
project in her district is opened
a few weeks from now.
Tempers Soar As Japanese
Parliament Discuss Scandal
TOKYO (AP)—Tempers soared
during a Parliament committee
discussion today of scandal charges
in Japanese financial circles.
Liberal Koichi Tabuchi and Pro-
gressive Shiro Nakano exchanged
verbal insults. Suddenly Tabuchi
leaped at Nakano and chased him
down a corridor. Guards broke up
the chase but the committee pru-
dently turned the discussion over
to a subcommittee while tempers
cooled.
counsel to shun extreme partisan-
ship, a number of GOP senators
seemed to take a more moderate
tone as the Lincoln Day speech-
making reached its peak volume
on. the anniversary of the Civil
War President’s birth.
There were still plenty of accu-
sations that past Democratic ad-
ministrations had coddled Com-
munists, or been outsmarted by!
them.
Nixon himself, in a speech last
night at New Haven, Conn., paid!
tribute to the way in which he!
said Secretary of State Dulles “has j
stood up to the Communists at the
conference table in Berlin,” and
he added:
“The day is past when our dip-
lomats lose at the conference table
the victories which opr fighting
men win on the battlefields.”
In counseling Republicans
against Indiscriminate attacks,
Nixon said: “We must remember
that millions of Democrats were
just as fed up with Trumanism as
we were in 1952.”
Eisenhower told a Wednesday
news conference the times are too
serious for extreme partisanship.
(See REPUBLICANS, Pag* 2)
Orange Republicans with
their eyes set upon candidates
...... , . , for political officeholding to-
Legislation was drawn today day formaiiy protested yester-
to reduce the down payments d -5 assign4nt o{ election
and stretch out the repayment
periods of Federal Housing
Administration (FHA) home loans.
Identical bills by Sen. Capehart
(R-Ind.) and Rep. Wolcott (R-
Mich.) chairmen of the Senate and
House banking committees, were
described by the authors as the
administration measures designed .......................
to carry out President EUenhow- teT^g^hadT^divided the ap-
er’s housing recommendations of
Jan. 25. ,vni|j
They would cut down payments iaws,
by varying amounts—for example, 1 a week ago, when approached
by |350 on a $10,000 house—and j to name Republican judges, Coun-
would reduce monthly peyments; ty Commissioners offered argu-
by extending to 30 years, instead; ment that they could not go out
of the present 20 or 25, the time and ask every one his party affill-
in which a loan must be paid off.' ation before making the appoint-
judges for the November general
election.
The protest came in the form of
a letter signed by Lloyd B. Rob-
inson, chairman of the Qrange
County Republican Executive
Committee.
His complaint waa that Orange
County Commissioners in naming
pointmenta
compliance
with
with
Republicans in
Texas election
Explosive Trieste
Issue Again Before
Big 4 Conference
BERLIN (AP)-3ovIet Foreign
Minister V, M. Molotov demand-
ed again today that the explosive
issue of Trieste be included in
consideration at the Au..rUn .rtde-
pendence treaty.
Specifically, he said the Big
Four should spell out a clause that
the disputed territory at the head
of the Adriatic be demilitarized.
It is now occupied by British,
careless jaywalker American and Yugoslav troops but
front of a motorist the Western Powers said last Oc-
the heart of tober they were ready to pull out
| and turn over administration of
to a atop their zone to Italy. Yugoslavia re-
acted bitterly.
The Russians tried once before
to link Trieste with the Austrian
Careless Jaywalker
Gets It in the End
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
(AP) —A
darted in
driving through
town today.
The ear lurched to a
Inches from the careless one and
the driver jumped out.
In full view of a policeman
and hundreds of spectators, he question. The West rejected the
planted hit foot with consider-
able emphasis on the jaywalk-
er’s posterior.
The motorist reentered his car.
idea then.
‘New Proposal'
Then Molotov made what his top
aides had described beforehand as
The policeman turned his head. a “new proposal” on Austria soon
Pedestrians gaped. ^Traffic he- after today's Big Four session got
to this last point on their agenda.
Austrian Foreign Minister Leo-
pold Figl appealed to the four
powers to restore Austria's inde-
pendence without delay. In the
years since drafting of an inde-
pendence treaty began in 1946 the
points of difference have been nar-
rowed to five. Molotov’a proposal
seems certain to cause further
delay.
Secret Meeting Held
Figl made his appearacne at. a
regular session late in the after-
noon which followed a secret
meeting on Asiatic questions.
The mild - mannered Austrian
gan to flow again. The jaywalk-
er nibbed a sore place and walk-
ed away, shaking his head.
Television Oscars
Awarded to Three
HOLLYWOOD (AP)—Edward
R. Murrow. Eve Arden and Don-
ald O’Connor won the top award?
of the Television Academy last
night, but a pudgy English profes-
sor stole the show.
Murrow, who rose to fame with
his broadcasts during the Ixmdon
blitz, was named the outstanding
TV personality of 1953 by the j
Academy of Television Arts and ! Student
Sciences.
Murrow’s See It Now also was
named the best news or sports
program.
Miss Arden, the
Also, down payments as low on
used houses as on new ones would
be authorized. There to now a
differential,
FHA itself does not make loans
but only Insure* repayment of
housing mortgages. The terms set
up by law are required to make
the loans eligible for FHA guaran-
tee.
The proposed legislation, slated
for- full committee study, avoids
any direct mention of Eisenhow-
er’s request for a four-year public
housing program designed to start
(See HOUSING BILL, Page 2)
Men Admit Being
With Slain Man
EL RENO, Okla. (AP) — Two
men. arrested last night for inves-
tigation in the slaying of a hand-
some movie talent scout in his Los
Angeles suburban home, admitted
to Police Chief Lee Harvey they
were with the victim early Wed-
nesday morning but have refused
to discuss the case further.
David L. Johnston, 30, was
bludgeoned to death with a two-
inch thick piece of gnarled fire-
wood in his tastefully furnished
Mve-room home Wednesday night.
The body was beaten almost be-
yond recognition.
Neither of the two arrested men
would explain why they were in
noasession of Johnston’s car, his
-lothing, or his personal identifi-
cation papers.
“Except for admitting they know
Tohnston well, they’re not talk-
ng.” Harvey said.
The two held in custody identi-
fied themselves as Leo J. Dens-
more. 23, Lo« Angeles, and George
Edward Long, 24, Astoria. Ore.
(See BIG POUR, Page 2)
Killed Week After
Donating Eyes to Eye Bank
BRAINTREE. Mass. (AP) -
About a week ago. Philip L.- Har
glamorous! 18-year-old high school stu-
schoolmarm of "Our Miss Brooks.” I arranged tcgKtonate his eves
was announced as the best female "P°n df®,h *® ,tT,c Massachusetts
star of a regular series at the gala , General Hospital eye bank,
dinner in the Hollywood Paladium. j On his way to school yesterday.
Hard-working Donald O’Connor.1 he was itruck by a train and died
one of the comedians on the Sun- within a few hour*,
day night Comedy Hour, won the \ Before nightfall, the corneas
Academy’s Emmy as the best male from his eyes were transplanted
star. to a patient in the hospital.
More Billions for Guided Missiles Asked
By ELTON C. FAT
AP Military Affairs Reporter
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
armed forces have received or are
asking authority to buy more than
three billion dollars worth of
guided missiles, which they start-
ed procuring four years ago. ----- _ --------
This is for actual procurement livered on orders placed some
of missile*. It does not include I months or even a year or more
other multimillion-dollar outlays' ago. And another portion, about
! day In response to a reporter's; surface-to-surface missiles. The
questions, do not mean that the Matador missile, with a range un-
American arsenal now necessarily derstood to be about 500 miles,
contains three billion dollars worth has been in production' for more
of missiles for the Air Force, than a year. A second missile, the
Aryny and Navy.
An undisclosed part of the total
value is material still to be de-
Snark, with a range substantially
greater, is approaching production
stage.
The Army’s share Is close to
that of the Air Force—about a bil-
lion dollars. Present major pro-
Orangeite Notified
Of Brother's Death
Alton Phillips Scarborough. 49
brother of Mrs. Elsie Doughty of
Orange, died yesterday at 8:45
p.m. a few minutes after being
struck by an automobile while
walking along the Fredericksburg
Highway near San Antonio.
Relatives here were informed
that Scarborough died en route to
the hospital. His neck and both
legs were broken. Other details
of the accident were not immedi-
ately available.
The body will be brought to
Hixson Funeral Home in Jena, La
Funeral services and burial will
be held Sunday at 3 p.m. hi the
Pine Grove Cemetery near Jena
Survivors besides the sister here
are a daughter, Mrs. Marvin Boyd
of Fort Worth: three sisters, Mrs.
Irene Clark of Blade, La., Mrs.
LeRuey Breithautt of Jonesville,
La.; four brothers, C. D. of San
Antonio, B. R. of Danville. Ark.,
Lynn of Chino, Calif., and Lee of
Montgomery, La.; a niece. Mrs.
H. Q. Self of Orange, and one
grandchild.
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VI
Wim
ment.
Law Ousted
In his protest, filed with County
Judge Charlie Grooms this morn-
ing. Robinson said:
“In checking the list of election
Judges appointed by the court Feb.
11, I find only two or three per-
sons who might be Republicans.
AH the rest are Democrats.
“I respectfully refer the com-
missioners’ attention to Texas
Election Laws, 1952 edition, chap-
ter 3, paragraph 15, in which it is
stated: ‘One of the judges who!
shall in all cases belong to the
party that at the last general elec*
tion cast the largest vote for gov-
ernor throughout the state shall
be designated as the presiding
judge at elections; he shall appoint
two competent and reputable
qualified voters of different po-
litical parties, if practicable, to
act as clerks of the elections’.1*
May Cause Contest
Continuing his complaint, Rob-
inson pointed to another section of
the law, paragraph 16, Chapter 3,
which states: “For every precinct
in which there are 100 citizens or
more who have paid their poll tax
or received their certiflcatea of
(See GOP PROTEST, Page 2)
Navy Cuts 350 Off
Payroll at Corpus
WASHINGTON (AP)—A Navy
official said today no further cuts
are contemplated now in the
number of civilian employes at the
Corpus Christl, Tex. Naval Air
Station other than the dropping of
350 announced yesterday.
Rear Adm. C. E. Ekstrom of the
Bureau of Aeronautics told a re-
porter “unless something further
develops which does not now ap-
pear in sight, we do not contem-
plate any further reduction at
Corpus Christi.”
The workers at Corpus Christl
being laid off are in the overhaul
and repair department, he added,
and the move is made to keep op-
erating costs in line with appro-
priations provided by Congress.
It was understood similar force
reductions are planned at some
other Naval sir stations but no de-
tails were available.
r,%-
—auff photo hy Ralph Roma*
COMBS MEMORIAL—A gift of five Webster New International
Dictionaries has been made to Senior English classes at Stark High
school by the Chamber of Commerce as a memorial to former U.S.
Representative, J. M. Combs. George Craft (Left), acting president
of the Chamber, made the presentation to High School Principal
Paul Pearson today.
Despite Shepperd's Accusations
Duval Panel Resumes
School District Probe
By WILBUR MARTIN
SAN DIEGO (AP)—The Duval County grand Jury today reatuned
a study of how Benavides School District funds were spent-despite
State Atty. Gen. John Ben Shepperd's charge that lt'a not qualified to
conduct the probe.
Meanwhile, the atmosphere in this dusty town of 3,400 citizens—
home of South Texaa political
power George B. Parr—had qulet-
; ed after three day* of explosive
j legal maneuvers by Shepperd.
The attorney general has said
New Circulation
Number Is 8-8403
The Leader's Circulation De-
partment has moved to new
quarters and now has Its own
private telephone.
The new circulation offlee Is
located at 308 Front St. The
new telephone number la
8-8403.
Remember, please, in the
future whenever you miss
your paper or have other busi-
ness with the Circulation De-
partment, dial)
8-8403
for designing, developing and test- f 400 million dollars in requests for; curement by the Army is going to
ing experimental gadgets—the re-
search part of the program.
The figures, made available to-
| Today's Weather |
Site rmt V I. Weather Bur—as
Local lorcccct: lair and cedar Conliht. .__, ,. ,,______
lowest temperature 40 to 45 defreeu. To- j tional weapons of the three serV'
new spending authority, is con-! Nike antiaircraft guided missiles,
tained in the proposed budget for t h e surface-to-surface Corporal
the fiscal year starting next and another, presumably semi-
July 1. guided heavy field artillery rock-
But it is a measure of the effort, et designated as the Honest John,
being devoted to producing robot The Nike has been in mass pro-
weapons to augment and eventu- ductioft for more than a year,
ally supplant some of the conven- The Navy has a share of 742
' million dollars in the missile pro-
vttb hlgbest temperature
near 44 Cttrree. Northeast to east winds
IS to 14 miles sn boar tont(M becomin*
rest to soatbeett 11 to IS miles sn hoar
•tsmorNw. /
Tomorrows tides: SsMne—hlfh nt 1:1*
sn. sad 11 1# p-B.; low St IN o.m. and
4 SI p m Bolivar—hlfh nt 14* p m. nod
-low nt US s m
Sic. race tomorrow a* |« in and
asto at lid am
ices. It Is Indicative, too, of the, curement program. It has in pro-j Waco used car
emergence of controllable missiles duct ion several missiles including rendered to his
from the drawing boards and lab- the Regulus, a surface-to-surface
oratories to production lines. * type to be used in firing from
The Air Force has had the larg- ships or from submarines Also
est part of the funds authorized included are two antiaircraft mia-
for missile contracts, about $1,-! tiles for defense of ships against
268.000,000. It is giving major at- enemy planes—the Terrier and
I touuoc to medium and long ranga. Sparrow.
Cops Nab Member
Of Swindling Trio
WACO (AP)—One of three men
accused of swindling a pretty
Texas widow out of $10,000 sur-
rendered yesterday and declared
he didn’t know police were look-
ing for him.
He was Appell Marchbank,
dealer. He sur-
____________ lawyer and was i
freed under $2,500 bond.
Marchbank and Ben Schoen-
wald, alias Sidney Miller, are
charged with conspiracy to swin-
dle, and Morris Vickers, alias Ste-
phen Welch, la charged with
swindling.
Section of Texas Hit
By Freezing Weather
By “ASSOCIATED PRESS
Freezing weather extended from
Mineral Wells north and west
across the Panhandle and Red
River Valley in Texas this morn-
ing.
But a warm tun moderated tem-
peratures as the day grew older
and Texans had a cool, clear day
with only a few scattered high
clouds.
Thj* morning's low was a 19
at Amarillo. Dalhart, Childress,
Lubbock and Abilene had readings
in the 20*.
Confederate Vet
Growing Weaker
AUSTIN (AP) — Confederate
veteran Thomas E. Riddle contin-
ued to grow gradually weaker to-
day.
Dr. Herman Wing, medical di-
rector of the Confederate Home,
said he spent a quiet night under
an oxygen tent but continued to
lose strength.
The 107-year-old soldier is con-
scious and recognizes his doctors
and nurses but he has shown no
signs of a rally since his heart
he wants to clean up “the mess”
in this area. Slate and federal offi-
cer* are checking the use of public
funds. The Internal Revenue
Service is looking into Parr’a in-
come tax returns.
In the courthouse. State Auditor
C. H. Cavness and seven assistants
plus two men from the State
Comptroller’s office pored over
guarded record* of Duval County
snd the Benavides and San Diego
school districts.
Shepperd got an Imported Judge
to order the records hauled Into
court by Texas Rangers.
Parr h a s called Shepperd’s
quick-stepping activities •’politic*.”
The grand jury was to recon-
vene at 2 p.m. after a two-day re-
cess. Three witnesses were sub-
poenaed.
Shepperd has asked that it be
dismissed. He says It can't do a
fair job because seven of its 12
members are tied In with Parr.
A hearing on Shepperd's peti-
tion is set in district court here
Feb. 20.
The attorney general returned
to Austin yesterday, predicting a
(See DUVAL COUNTY, Page 2)
Requested
SEOUL (AP)— South Ko- .
rea said today it has offered
a full army division to fight
communism in Indochina and
it asked for help from retired
U.S. Gen James Van Fleet
The government information of*
flee, in a statement Indirectly crit-
ical of tha United Stater said H
had been asked to help fight tha
Reds in “two urgent appeal* sign-
ed by the cabinet minister of the
Laos government “one of the three
states of Indochina.
A Communist Vietminh force of
10,000 men is driving south toward
Luang Prabsng, capital of Laos.
U.S. Air Support
South Koreen Foreign Minister
Pyun Yung Tal said In an Inter-
view that his country has offered
a division to anti-Communlst
forces in Indochina fighting under
the French Union banner.
A source In the French Ministry
of Foreign Affairs in Paris said
it had no information of such an
offer.
In Tokyo, the Japanese news-
paper Nippon Times said Ameri-
can Air Force units are flying
small - Kale support airlifts for
French troop* in Indochina, from
Japan via Formosa and the Philip-
pillM,
Shortly after the Pyun In Ufa lew
President Syngman Rhea’s govern-
ment issued a sharply • worded
statement declaring:.
“From the United Stats* we ash
only that it give us the sendees
of It* (net soldier, Oen. Van
Fleet, who achieved such miracles
In creating the Korean Army and
in fighting the Communist* in
Greece,
“We want Gen. Van Fleet to
come and help us organise our
own forces and at the same time
train and organize the armies of
Indochina. He could, with his tre-
mendous energy, do both Jobs, and
(See SOUTH KOREA, Page 2)
Velde Opposed To
Measure To Outlaw
Red Party in U.S.
l
ENGLISH FOG SPREAD!
BOSTON (AP)—Rep. Harold H.
Velde (R-Itt), chairman of the
House Un-American Activities
Committee, says he is "generally
opposed at this time” to a measure
that would outlaw the Communis!
Party In the United States.
A bill to ban the Communis!
Party has been Introduced in the
House by Rep. Martin Diet (D-
Texi. who sponsored the Un-
American Activities Committee
in 1936 snd was Its chairman from
1938 to 1943.
Velde told a news conference
yesterday it would be “hard to
read into the bill" the standards
by which Communists could be
Identified “since most of them
don’t carry cards anymore.**
The Illinois Republican said he
thinks Congress should withhold
action on the Dies proposal until
the U.S. Supreme Court rules on
the constitutionality of the McCar-
ran-Wood Act which, he eald,
“will do the Job."
”1 think it is a good thing to get
every Communist behind bars or
out of the country.’’ he said, “but
LONDON (AP) — Rising tom-
began to fail Tuesday. He ha* been ! perature spread dense fog over . I’m afraid such a bill as the Die!
suffering from critical pneumonia much of England today, hamper- proposal would not work at the
since Jan. 17. 1 ing sea and air transportation. ' present time."_
leak' Claimed in Security Dismissals
**, . . here’s a washing ma-
chine for sale in the Leader
Went Ads—too bad you've al-
ready got eael’*
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.
Rooney (D-NY) said today “some-
one in the department must have
leaked the story” about the num-
ber of State Department security
dismissals effected under the Ei-
senhower administration.
Newspaper accounts published
Wednesday said that in secret tes-
timony before a House Appropria-
tions subcommittee R. W. Scott
McLeod. State Department securi-
ty administrator, had said that of
534 security dismissals. Just 11
could be attributed to reasons of
questionable loyalty. The first
published version of this purport-
ed testimony gave no indication of
its source. Later versions were at-
tributed to House members who
asked not to be named.
These House members also re-
ported that Under Secretary of
State Waiter Bedell Smith, testify-
ing at the same time, told them
no active Communists had been
the figures attributed to him as
inaccurate but gave no others.
“I think Mr. McLeod should be
back in Washington locking into
his own office,” said Rooney, a
member of the eubcommittoe.
“Someone In the department
must have leaked the story. The
exact facts in the matter will ap-
pear when the hearings in ques-
tion and answer form are formal-
ly made public by the committee.
They will speak for themselves.”
A State Department spokesman,
told of Rooney’s comments, said
he had no knowledge of any
“leaks,” but he added: “Leaks are
very difficult to control.” •
While Rooney was thus accusing
the department of leaking prema-
turely information given the
House group in confidence, news-
men were scratching their heads
over a curtain of confusion ap-
parently stemming from the fact
that top department official* are
nese report*. Ln uerun tor ine rug foor wus.
McLeod, now on a Republican-1 The prime example of this con-
sponsored speaking tour, deecribcd fusion has oantored around Me*
Leod and the question: Is he or to
he not subject to the Hatch Act,
which bars federal employes from
political activity?
For three days in a row, acting
department spokesman Jameeoa
Parker has been issuing some-
time* conflicting statements, in
written form, and then declining
further comment. When pressed,
he will say he doesn’t know the
a newer-but will get It,
| ORANGE JUICE |
CON FUSING — Commissioner
Harold Carter witching hie wife
at the PTA meeting for a cue i
when to raise his hand ...
show of hand* waa being
for by homerooms ... Cart
not know which room he 1
In ... The mattresses for
[Jail, authorized by <
ers’ Court but never i
Trying to cross Division i
front of the courthouse i
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