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^TOKYO, Sunday, Jan. 4—UP—
i daughter of an American gen-
' goes m trial fbr murder Mon-
for the knife-slaying of her
. el-husband and if convicted
wotald face the death penalty.
Mrs. Dorothy Smith is charged
with "premediated murder” for the
death- of Col. Aubrey Smith Oct.
3. She will be tried by an Army
court martial of 11 officers, includ-
ing two WACs.
The 40-year-old brunette is the
daughter of Gen. Walter Krueger,
who commanded the sixth Army
in the Pacific during World War II.
He now lives 4n San Antonio, Tex.
It will be the first premeditated
murder court martial of a depen-
dent in Gen. Mark Clark's Far
East Command.
A neighbor found Smith clutch-
ing a gaping wound in his side.
Mrs. Smith sat beside him on the
bed in their home, staring dazedly
at the floor and gripping a knife.
CLASH IN INDIA
RAJKOT, India. Jan. 3—UP—
Two persons were killed and 80
were injured Saturday in two clash-
es between police and 5,000 persons
demonstrating against a sales-tax.
The fatal clashes occurred when
the demonstrators stormed a police
stations and the tax collector’s of-
fice.
106 Year Old Vet
May Get Legacy
AUSTIN, Jan. 3-UP—A 106-year-
old veteran of the Confederate war,
who is confident he will get part of
a $4 million Philadelphia fortune,
planned Saturday to do some trav-
eling and maybe "get a girl
friend.”
Thomas Evans Riddle, the elder-
ly veteran, said he was certain he
would get some money in a lawsuit
contesting the will of the late Sam-
uel D. Riddle, who died Jan. 8,
1951, leaving the fortune.
Riddle, who can’t see or hear
very well, spoke through an official
of the Texas Confederate Home for
Men.
“He wants to use his share of the
money to travel.” the spokesman
said. “And he's always talking
about getting himself a girl friend.
Maybe he’ll find one now.”
Riddle claims he is a half-brother
of the late Samuel D. Riddle. A
Philadelphia lawyer. Rodes K. My-
ers, announced Friday he would
contest the will for him and 20 oth-
er heirs.
KILLED IN CROSSING
QUANAH, Tex., Jan. 3 —UP—
Charles Aubrey King, 31, was killed
and his parents were seriously in-
ured Friday night when a Fort
Worth and Denver freight train
collided with King's automobile at
a downtown crossing.
GOSPEL MEETING
J. T. MARLIN Evangelist
JANUARY 4-11, 1953
Sundays
10:50 A.M.—6:00 P.M.
Week Days
7-30 P.M.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
4th & Elm Sweetwater, Texas
Texas Income Up Accused Slayer Ends
Own Life By Bullet
WEST LIBERTY, W. Va„ Jan. 3
—UP—Joe Taggert, jobless laborer
who killed his wife's parents and
wounded two other relatives In a
shooting spree Friday was found
dead of a self-inflicted bullet wound
Saturday.
The Ohio county sheriff’s office
said the body of the 24-year-old
Slightly Despite
Drouth Condition
DALLAS, Jan. 3—UP—The total
income of Texans during 1952 was
some 5 per cent above 1951 even
though the state was visited by a
severe drought during much of the
year, the Federal Reserve Bank of
Dallas reported.
The bank's report on "High-
lights of 1952," covering the
eleventh federal reserve district,
said the five states lying wholly or
partly in the district gained even
more during 1952.
"Only agriculture lof important
sources of income in the areal
failed to show a favorable com-
parison with results of the prece-
ding year,” the bank said.
The 11th federal reserve district
includes Texas and parts of Okla-
homa. Louisiana. New Mexico and
Arizona.
Inflation Held in Check
"The record for 1952 in the
Southwest is very favorable.” the
bank’s year-end report said, “po-
tential inflationary forces were held
reasonably well in cheek, and a
relatively high degree of stability
prevailed.”
The bank said agricultural data
for tlie five states lying wholly or
partly in the district show that a
slight decline in the production of
crops was almost offset by a very
small increase in the production of
livestock and livestock products.
However, the bank said, this is
not entirely representative of the
district, since in several cases the
areas of largest production in the
states oilier than Texas lies out-
side the eleventh district.
il mentioned a “very large wheat
crop in the part of Oklahoma that
is in the Kansas City federal re-
serve district and large rice and
sugar cane crops in the part of
Louisiana lying in the Atlanta fed-
eral reserve district.”
Cotton Crop Hurt
The bank said production of
crops in Texas declined seven per
cent in 1952 compared with the pre-
ceding year, while livestock and
livestock products rose about one
per cent. On all farm commodity
production, the decline was about
3.5 per cent.
“The most serious decline occur-
red in the case of eotlon, with the
1952 crop being estimated at about
3.750.900 bales, compared with 4,-
074.000 bales produced in 1951.”
About 17 per cent more cattle
were slaughtered in Texas in the
first 10 months of 1952 than during
the first 10 months of 1951, because
of the deterioration of range duo
to drough.
The number of calves moving to
slaughter increased about 10 per
cent, and sheep and hogs were up
9 per cent.
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Taggert was found in a barn about
150 yards from the home of hts in-
laws, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mon-
roe. A shotgun was found beside
his body.
Mrs. Monroe died of a bullet
wound in the head. Taggert opened
fire on Monroe with the shotgun at
close range when his father-in-law
stepped outside and struck him in
the chest.
Police said Taggert fired two
more times, wounding his three-
year-old son, Joseph Jr., and Betty
Monroe, 17, his sister-in-law. He
escaped as Mrs. Taggert and her
son and brothers fled upstairs.
Neighbors at the scene said the
Monroe home'was an arsenal. They
said “several” shotguns and rifles
were in “open view” in the house.
Price Roll Back
On Beef Studied
By OPS Officials
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—UP—
Price Stabilization officials disclos-
ed Saturday they plan to survey
retail beef ceilings again next week
to determine whether they should
be rolled back to reflect sharp re-
ductions in cattle prices.
A rollback of only a few cents
would save housewives and Other
consumers millions of dollars.
These officials told the United
Press that while farm commodi-
ties generally are in a slump, they
think beef is the only item on which
“profiteering” is threatened.
Farm prices dropped 3 per cent
in the month elided Dec. 15. Athat
point they were 1 per cent beiow a
year ago. The bulk of decline was
in cattle, cotton, eggs, hogs and
milk.
Makes Survey
When cattle prices started div-
ing last fall the Office of Price
Stabilization surveyed them to de-
cide whether retail rollbacks were
in order. This survey showed the
declines were largely in the lower
beef grades with little or no reduc-
tion in select dinner table meats.
It also showed that in many areas
retail declines on lower-grades had
followed the cattle price reductions.
OPS was reluctant to undertake
the rollbacks then because it meant
changing from easily-enforccable
dollars-and-cents ceilings at retail
to percentage mark-ups on whole-
sale costs. The latter is difficult to
enforce officials said.
They also felt the rollbacks would
not be worthwhile unless they
were “substantial.”
Survey Chain Stores
Tlie new survey will include a
sampling of prices at large chain
stores.
As to other farm price drops,
OPS officials indicated they were
not worried. They pointed out that
since the Dee. 15 slump, hog prices
have started strengthening.
Cotton has been selling so far
below ceilings that ceilings have
been suspended. This also goes for
goods made of cotton, including tex-
tiles and all clothing, except chil-
dren's.
On milk. OPS has margin con-
trols at distributor levels and price
officials describe the regulations as
"tight.”
Egg prices at distributor levels
generally have followed farm pri-
ces up and d o w n. These prices
were frozen in January, 1951
Since then distributors have been
allowed to pass on cost increases
and are supposed to reflect cost de-
creases.
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Tel) Party Heads
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3—UP—
Senate Republican leaders bad a
firm pledge from President-elect
Eisenhower Saturday that he will
make “no secret foreign commit-
ments.”
The promise, if was learned, spe-
cifically ruled out any undercover
agreement on more aid for Britain
during Elsenhower’s meeting next
week with Prime Minister Winston
Churchill.
It also would apply, informed
sources said, in the case of an ex-
pected French request for more
U.S. help in the fight against com-
munism in Indo-China.
The pledge was made Tuesday
in a meeting Eisenhower had with
Sens. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio),
Styles Bridges (R-N.H.), Leverett
Saltonstall iR-Mass.l, and Milton
R. Young (R-N.D.).
Eisenhower, it was said, strong-
ly attacked what he called tbe
“deals” made at Yalta and Tehran,
where executive commitments
were made and not disclosed to
Congress and the nation until many
months later.
He was said to have pointed out
that occasionally a chief executive
must enter into executive agree-
ments with nations. But he gave a
flat assurance that nothing would
be done along this line without con-
sulting Congress in advance.
Holiday Tragedy Mpfemaj PoflisM
Toil Runs High for Drinking Sprat
Cot-
MUST FACES CHARGES
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3—UP—
A Texas sailor, accused of beating
and shooting a butcher in a San
Francisco tavern fight last June,
will he returned here next week to
face charges, police said Saturday.
Police inspectors A1 Nelder and
1 Ed Van Devort said they would
| ily to San Jacinto, Tex., to pick up
Thomas E. Giblin, 32-year-old mer-
chant seaman.
GRAIN PRICES OFF
CHICAGO. Jan. 3—UP—Many of
(lie grain futures on the board of
trade ended the year within strik-
ing distance of their lows for the
year and on the first day of trade
in the new year displayed little in
the way of a definite trend.
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Cotton Loan Rate
May Be About 32
NEW ’ftlRK, Jan. 3—UP -
ton prices edged ahead irregularly
in a holiday week which was short-
ened to 3 1-2 sessions.
At Friday's close, the list ruled
12 to 35 points—60 cents to SI.75 a
bale— higher than tbe preceding
week.
The Commodity Credit Corp. re-
ported entries under the loan pro-
gram for the week ended Dec. 26
totalled 109,630 bales as against
155,933 bales in the preceding week
when the high for the season was
made.
The holidays probably accounted
for the reduction, traders felt. The
stock of 1952 crop cotton in govern-
ment hands stood at 897,771 bales.
The Department of Agriculture
reported the mid-December parity
price for cotton at 34.10 cents a
pound for middling 7-8 inch cotton
on the farm. This was 12 points
under the previous month and un-
changed from tlie same period last
year.
If the current parity rate holds
to mid-July when the loan rate for
the next crop will be determined,
the rate would be around 32.24
cents a pound, statisticians calcu-
lated.
By UNITED PRESS
The New Year holiday death toll
Saturday lagged behind the aver-
age hourly traffic death rate for all
of 1952, but weekend outings could
send It zooming again.
Safety experts felt that motorists
could have done better, but were
still pleased at the relatively safe
showing made during the danger-
ous New Year Eve and New Year
Day period. With two days of the
long, four-day holiday left, they had
their fingers crossed.
The latest United Press tabula-
tion showed that at least 210 per-
sons were killed in traffic accidents
since 6 p. m. Wednesday. Plane
crashes took another four lives, 24
persons died in fires and 46 in mis-
cellaneous mishaps for a total of
284.
Combined Total of 798
This brought the combined traf-
fic total for the four-day Christmas
holiday and the present New Year
period to 798. The total for both hol-
idays for all accidental deaths was
1,048.
Motorists and pedestrians were
being killed during tbe present hol-
iday at a rate that fluctuated
around 3.6 an hour. Last year’s av-
erage hourly rate was about 4.3,
based on National Safety Council
statistics that traffic deaths in 1952
would be 38,000.
The safety council has estimated
that 410 persons will die by mid-
night Sunday, a prediction which
could come true if the weekend
death rate jumped about one death
every two hours.
Safety Council President Ned II.
Dearborn said the all-time traffic
deatli record of 588 which was set
over the recent Christmas holiday
may have sobered drivers and help-
ed hold down the present accident
rate.
No Reason to Brag
But he said that the country still
didn’t have much reason to brag
about its performance on the high-
ways and that the deaths were
-coming only a little behind the
council’s predicted schedule.
“But vve may have a chance to
go beiow our estimate.” Dearborn
said. “At least we’re hopeful and
we're over the hump of New Year
Eve, which is the most dangerous
part of this holiday.”
Bad weather, wet and chilly,
might make highways dangerous
Saturday. But, at the same time,
it might discourage many auto
trips. Rain, fog and snow put a
gloomy hand on the Midwest Fri-
day and was moving east steadily
Saturday.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 —UP—
The State Department Saturday
stripped diplomat Foy D. Kohler
of hia top-level assignment, sus-
pended him for 30 days without
pay, and reprimanded him for be-
ing drunk while in possession of
secret departmental papers.
The three-way punishment was
made effective as of the close of
business Friday, the department
said; after a thorough investigation
of all facts connected with his ar-
rest Dee. 6 following an automo-
bile accident in Arlington, Va.
Kohler was officially reprimand-
ed for violating State Department
security regulations because he
had taken two secret documents
from the department without prop-
er permission.
Newspaper Upheld
In Labor Dispute
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 —UP—
The National Labor Relations
Board has ruled that the Arkansas
Gazette does not have to rehire 31
editorial and circulation depart-
ment employes who w’erc replaced
during a strike in 1949.
The board rejected charges by
the CIO newspaper guild that the
Gazaztz Publishing Co., Little
Rock. Ark. — publishers of the Ar-
kansas Gazette — had resorted to
unfair coercion in ah effort to halt
the walkout. It said the company
was justified in replacing the strik-
ers with permanent new employes.
During the course of the walk-
out, the company replaced 21 edi-
torial and 10 circulation depart-
ment employes with other workers.
The guild filed charges that the
strike was caused and prolongee by
unfair company tactics, and asked
that all the strikers be reinstated.
One Texan Killed
>
WASHINGTON, Jan, S—UP-
Thc Department of Defense report-
ed Saturday, In Its 721st Korean m
cas'tallv list, that one Texan had w
been killed in action and seven
others wounded.
Pfr. Dennis R. Armstrong, Wich-
ita Falls, a soldier previously re-
ported missing in action, was kill-
ed. the department said.
The seven wounded, all soldiers,
were Sgt. Pedro Casablanca, San'
Antonio; Pvc. Arturo H. Garcia,
San Antonio; Pvt. Salvador Gon-
zales, Beevlllc; Pvt. Clarence R.
Huber, Anson; Sgt. Wendle F.
Moore, Wilson; Pvt. Robert W. O
Taylor, San Antonio, and Pfc. Pe-
dro A. Torrez, San Angelo.
Legal Directory
P. EDW. PONDER
Lawyer
Texas Bank Building
Sweetwater, Texas
HIRAM CHILDRESS
Attorney-at-law
Doscher Bldg. Sweetwater <0
BEALL & YONGE
Attorneys-at-Law
Doscher Bldg. Sweetwater
MAYS, PERKINS & LEONARD
Attorneys-at-Law
522-25 Levy Bldg.
Sweetwater, Texas
NUNN. GRIGGS & SHERIDAN
Lawyers
Phone 4858 Davis Building
HARRY R. BONDIES
Lawyer
Doscher Building Sweetwater
Professional Directory
DR. P. T. QUAST, O. D.
107 W. Third St.
Seek .Quality Lenses And
Professional Advice
Not Glasses At A Price
Potato Imports Banned
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—UP — i
The Agriculture Department Fri- j
day banned potato imports from
Spain, the Canary Islands, Estonia, j
and Latvia because of the threat \
of the golden nematode, a potato j
pcs).
CAL MONTGOMERY WISHES A HAPPY
AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO THE
PEOPLE OF NOLAN COUNTY
“I want to say “Thanks” again to the people for their
splendid support and co-operation I have received as your sheriff
for the past four years. It has been a pleasure to serve you.
“My best wishes goes
Nolan County.”
to the Sheriff Department of
CAL MONTGOMERY.
CONDENSED STATEMENT
The TEXAS BANK And
TRUST COMPANY
OF SWEETWATER, TEXAS
As Reported to the State Banking Department at the Close of Business
December 31, 1952
RESOURCES
Loans ..........1... $1,827,493.93
Building ............ 23,000.00
Furniture & Fixtures 27,151.27
Other Real Estate . . 4.00
Customers’ Bonds
(Dep.i ........... , 123,700.00
Bills of Exchange ... .$ 50,930.73
U. S. Government
Bonds ............ 2.848,500.00
City, County, and
State Bonds ....... 493.807.01
Stoc k Guaranteed by
U. S. Agency ...... 70,000.00
CASH & EXCHANGE 1,811,465.57
TOTAL A VAIABLE
CASH .......... 5,274,703.31
TOTAL ........... $7,276,052.51
LIABILITIES
Capita] Stock . ..
Surplus ........
Fndivided Profits
Reserves ........
Customers’ Bonds
(Dep.) ........
DEPOSITS ......
$ 150,000.00
150.000. 00
150.000. 00
139,600.32
, 123,700.00
6,562,752.19
TOTAL
$7,276,052.51
The above statement is correct.
J. N. DULANEY, President
J. S, SCHOOLER, Cashier
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
OFFICERS
J. N. DULANEY, President
J. L. HANEY, Executive Vice President
PAUL CAIN, Vice President
J. S. SCHOOLER, Vice President and Cashier
JOHN H. PATTERSON, Assistant Cashier
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J. L. HANEY
J. S. SCHOOLER
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 2, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 4, 1953, newspaper, January 4, 1953; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth749390/m1/4/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.