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TODAY’S SQUIB: If you want
to .make ^headway in this world
and keep what you get, you inust
not be too clever.
THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
Each year the National Safety
Council sends out a list of freak
accidents and some of them are
worth passing on. to our readers.
Here is just a few of them:
Tie case of Pete Bird, of £hel-
byvi Ky., may be worth record-
ing. When a mere boy, Mr. Bird
ws choppm a log on a farm when
a chip fle^' up and struck him in
the eye, bringing a cataract and
blindness. In 1946—just 42 years
later—Mr. Bird again was chop-
ping wood. Again a chip flew up
and hit him in the eye, tearing
the cataract loose and restoring
sight.
New York, Dec. 4. (UP;—Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov,
presumably awaiting instructions
from Moscow, stalled final big four
action today on the last half doz-
en open questions in the satellite
peace treaties,
But the council of foreign min-
isters could settle them all in one
sitting and is still expecting to
start preliminary talks on the
C-erman peace treaty before the
end of this week.
Hi German talks Will b just
“preliminary” and devoted primar-
_ nu • i Ly to deciding when, where and
give. So when Mrs. Orson Rhein- , J . ... , , , . +H„
, , . ... , , . how real talks and decisions on the
gold, of Albany, N. Y„ found she 1
IN FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR
Molotov Stalls
Final Action
By Big Four
ENNIS, ELLIS, COUNTY, TEXAS WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 4, 1946
Put a mouse and a woman in the
same car and something has to
was sharing her car with a travel-
German treaty will take place.
Secretary of State James
ing mouse, she just did what came J , , , , ,, .
naturally. Threat smached into "" % ?°f £
v. pole and the field mouse re-
turned to the field. :
held a month ago to get the big
four to decide here on Germany’s
future frontiers. The French elec-
. . .. ~ ,. . j tion and failure of former French
Youngest vactun of an odd acci- and Minister
dent m 1946 undoubtedly was a Eidault to attend this
baby girl who was shot )before she ° ■ . , .
J TT _ . meeting here upset that plan,
was bom. Her mother, Mrs. Ar- 1
thur Laughton, was shot in a
hunting accident at Winthrop,
Me., and the baby was born, pre-
maturely, a bullet wound in her
left thigh.
US Citizenship
Goal of German
Scientists
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No. 387
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(NEA Telephoto)
GERMAN V-2 EXPERTS HELP U. S. ARMY—Examining
parts of rocket motor which is used for training crews at
white Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico, are Dr. Martin
.Schilling, left, Dr. Wernher von Braun, and Dr. Ernest
Steinhoff, all German scientists who are now working
with the U. S. Army Ordnance .
—
When most people were desper- \
ately trying to find auto tires, ]
Stanley Yanick of Chicago just j __
stood still on the sidewalk and one j E1 Paso -pex., Dec. 3. (UP)—Am-
came rolling right up to him. Un- j erican citizenship is the goal of
fortunately, it had a wheel attach- i most of +he 118 German scientists
ea, and it battened him. The \ now in the United States woiking
tire was the wrong size anyway. | on rocket experiments for the ar-
! mv because they believe “America
When Mrs. Ralph Gilmore of vdll go further in research than
Philadelphia heard a certain pro- j any otner nation.”
gram coming in on her radio, /she j Tiiese scientists, whose V-2 pro-
hurried across the room td turn duct almost brought England to
up the volume, tripped on a rug her knees in the latter stages of
and fell, suffering minor injuries, j World War n, now are working
%Iie program Mrs. Gilmore fell i for peace. Brought from Germany
~fl>r? A broadcast on home hazards i ^ the end of the war on a con-
by the National Safety Council! | tract basis, they were under pro-
i tective custody of the army until
GOP Members of War
Investigating Group
Publish Secret Report
Freight Embargo
Leaves Plants
Near Closing
Pittsburgh, Dec. 4. (UP)—The
nation headed rapidly toward an
industrial crisis today as a freight
embargo, resulting from the 14-
day soft coal strike, left scores of
factories with only a few days to
operate.
More than 1,000,000 workers, 500,-
000 of them in the automobile in-
dustry, faced layoffs next week as
a result ol the embargo, effective
today.
! As the full force of the coal
1 strike bit into the nation’s ecenomy
| there were the following develop-
! ments.
j The Ford Motor Company of
j Detroit announced it would cease
J all manufacturing at midnight
j Thursday. Assemblies will shut
down a few days after that. An
| estimated 85,000 production work-
! ers will be laid off.
General Motors Corporation an-
| nounced it could operatt “only a
j few' days at the most” after the
rail embargo goes into effect. GM
employs 263,000 hourly-rated work-
ers.
Chrysler Corporation which em-
ploys 75.600 workers said, it was
contemplating an early shutdown.
Automobile parts manufacturers
also were expected to close.
Scores of other industries plan-
ned to halt operations as soon as
! present storage space is filled.
Washington, Dec. 4. (UP)—Re-
publican members of the Senate
War Investigating Committee to-
day published a secret report by
committee counsel containing
charges—denied by the Army—of
racketeering, smuggling and sexu-
al immorality among American of-
ficers and troops stationed In Ger-
Natural Gas
May Be on Move
Within Week
many.
The report, published over state
and War Department7 protests, de-
Their families, averaging three and scribed the conduct of some sol-
diers as “little short of disgrace-
ful;” related instances of negro
recently. Now they are free to
come and go in the vicinity cf El
Paso but can’t cross into Mexico.
by testimony before the committee
last August 14 of Col. Francis P.
Miller, former military government
official. Miller charged that the
conduct of negro troops was “one
of the most disgractful episodes in
American history.”
one half dependents for each
man, will wought, to the Unit-
[ ed States . in February.
The army had a two-fold purpose
Kelly Infant
Died Tuesday
Night Here
Frederick Graham Kelly, infant
Thorez Fails
To Win Majority
In Election
Paris, Dec. V. (UP)—The French
National Assembly today balloted
on the election of a new premier
and unofficial reports said that
communist leader Maurice Thorez,
the only candidate, had failed to
win a majority.
(NEA Telephoto)
LEWIS FOUND GUILTY—In a
sullen mood, United Mine Workers
President John L. Lewis leaves the
Municipal Court Building in Wash-
ington, D. C., after being found
guilty on a contempt of court
charge for failing to call off the
soft coal strike at the court’s re-
quest. Lewis was left in the custody
of his counsel until pronouncement
of sentence Wednesday.
_ / i..cV,
Sentence Against
John L. Lewis Given
By Federal Judge
Thompson Says
Big-Little Inch
Lines Needed
Washington, Dec. 4. (UP)—U. 3.
District Judge T. Alan Goldsbor-
ough will hand down a sentence
against John L. Lewis todaj^ that
will probably lead to a supreme
court decision on the right of the
government to use injunctions in
labor disputes.
Lewis faced a .possible jail sen-
tence and fine for his contempt of
court conviction, and there were
indications the government soon
would open another court fight to
punish him further under the
Smith-Connally anti-strike law.
The still defiant Lewis was ord-
ertd back into court at 10 a.m,
(FAT) to learn his punishment for
ignoring a court. order to call off
the national coal strike, now in
its 14th day.
Meanwhile, there were strong
signs that the government would
gc before a grand jury soon to
ask that Lewis, and perhaps oth-
er officials of his striking United
Mine Workers (AFL), be indicted
for violation of the Smith-Connal-
ly Act. The Justice Department
declined to comment on the pos-
sibility of further prosecution, but
action next week was predicted by
some.
The government won a major
round in its legal battle with Lew-
is yesterday when Goldsborough
held Lewis and his union in con-
tempt for ognoring a Nov. 18 ord-
er to call off the walkout. The
court asked attorneys for both sides
8 Point Buck
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Carthage, Tex., Dec. 4. (UP)—
Railroad Commissioner Ernest O.
Thompson today had emphasized
his belief in the usefulness of the i to return today with recommenda-
Eimisite Plans
Trip to Germany;
Leaves Saturday
troops flateVnizihg with .German : Bon of Lt_ and Mrg_ R w KeUy> Mrs. Carl B. Johnson and nine
Washington, Dec. 4. (UP)—Gar- ; try.
I in bringing the men to this coun- gills’ and charged that a recent paased away at 9:15 o’clock Tues-
- 'try. It wanted to find out (1) j group of occupation troops sent to day night in the home of his grand
diner Symonds, president of the
Tennessee Gas & Transmission Co.,
said today natural gas may be
flowing to Ohio Tennessee and
Kentucky through the big inch
and little big inch pipelines “in a
matter of a dey or two.”
Symonds was the day’s first wit-
ness before a house special com-
mittee investigating disposal of sur-
plus property. The committee is
Rooking into failure of the War
■Assets Administration to get rid
i)f the wartime, government-built
Beelines.
U gymond’s company has been giv-
iITow to assemble the Nazi ■ V-2 j Germany. included men who “were
rocket and receive instruction on j not even high-grade morons.”
its operation and (2) Find out
what the German scientists had
planned for the future and to de-
termine if they were ahead of this
country in research.
In return for their services, the
army provides for their families,
guaranteeing the amount of food
It said one high officer was re-
turned to the United States for
“reasons of moral turpitude.” It
also reported ' reviously secret tes-
timony alleging that a colonel sta-
tioned in Frankfurt was a white
slavtr.
The report charged that “im-
prescribed for persons living in the . pr0per conduct”, of high military
American zone in Germany. The j g0Vernment officials has lowered
army also provides temporary duty j ^roQp m0rale, harmed U. B. pres-
pay from which deductions are , ^jge and delayed achievement of
made for room, board and laundiy. j E g occupation objectives.
Officials said that a good manag- ) • pke report was submitted to the
en the pipelines on temporary • er” would have approximately $1 j committee by its chief counsel,
lease until next April to help re- j daily left over for extras such as j George Meader, after he made a
lieve—a little bil—the fuel short- j cigarettes and clothing. i preliminary on the spot investiga-
age caused b/ the coal strike. The I The scientists are under contract i inquiry was prompted
lines at first will carry only enough i to the U S. Army Ordnance De- j----------.-------
gas to equal about one tenth of j partment and all voluntarily sign-
one percent of a day’s normal coal : ed six-month contracts to come to
production. the United Stats. Later, he con-
tracts were renewed.
Judge A. R. Stout
To Be Speaker at
Kiwanis Club
Judge A. Royce Stout of Waxa-
hachie will be guest speaker Thurs-
day noon when the Kiwanis Club
of Ennis holds its regular weekly
meeting in the banquet room of the
Texas Power & Light Co., with
.the president, the Rev. S. T. Fran-
ks, presiding.
MRS. MOSER WILL
DELIVER DISHES
Mrs. C. F. Moser has a number
of dishes belonging to friends who
brought food to her home at the
time of the death of Mrs. J. B.
Russell. Mrs. Moser will be glad
to deliver these dishes to the prop-
el homes if the owners will phone
her. Phone 728, or call at 1006 N.
Dallas Street.
hopping Days
o Christmas
Wichita Falls
Clerk Has Job
Nearly Two Decades
.Wichita Falls, Tx„ Dec. 4, (UP)
—Meet a city clerk secretary of
almost two decades who has tend-
ed. quietly to the business of keep-
ing the records straight for a suc-
cession of city managers and city
clerks.
Meet Pearl Goldstucker, who be-
lieves’ her job has become easier
as the City of Wichita Falls has
grown more complicated. She
came to Wichita Falls in 1927 from
Tyler, and since then has served
through the administrations of six
mayors and seven city managers.
In her early days with the mu-
nicipal government, she recalled,
the ef unctions of administration
were carried out in what is now a
downtown fire station.
“There was a great deal of
work to do then,” she said. “But
our organization was very small
then, and I dare say we could do
the same job now in half that
time.”
I One of her first major tasks
was codification of existing ordin-
ances without the aid of the city
clerk or the city attorney’s office.
Through the maze of the record-
ed life of Wichita Falls and its
citiztns, Miss Goldstucker has be-
come an amateur historian of the
city’s political growth.
The city managerial system, a-
dopted in Wichita Falls and in
many cities in the nation, wrns the
subject of sharp dispute when
elections were held to determine
its use.
Baptist Executive
Board Favors FM
Station in State
| Dallas, Tex., Dec. 4. (UP)—The
! executive board of the. Baptist Gen-
eral Copf ention of Texas today had
granted a $175,000 reserve found
for operation of a Baptist* FM re-
ligious radio network in the state.
At its meeting last night, the
board voted also to lease a 1,060,-
acre tract of land five miles from
Beeville as sitt of a four-year col-
lege and to spend $350,000 for
building improvements.
The Rev. R. Alton Reed of Dal-
las, chairman of the radio com-
mittee, said 14 cities already have
applied for stations in the radio
system. He said the network will
have headquarters in Dallas.
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Will-
iams, 1211 N. Breckenridge Street.
Funeral services will be held
sometime Friday in the Keever
Chapel with the Rev. Robert C.
Fling, pastor of the Tabernacle
Baptist Church officiating. The
time has not been decided upon
pending the arrival of the baby’s
father who is enroute to Ennis
from Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
The baby was born November 24
in the Municipal Hospital.
Surviving are his parents and
grand parents. Mrs. Kelly is the
former Alice Williams.
•months old son, Carl, Jr., will leave
Saturday for New York where they
will go to Germany to be with
Major Johnson who is with the
U. S. Forces of Occupation. Mxs.
Johnson is the ’former Ermine
Greene.
big and little inch pipelines in
meeting the fuel needs of the coal-
struck East and North.
“It is my sincere hope,” Thomp-
son said last night, “that the big
and little inch pipelines may be
utilized to form an outlet for ad-
ditional gas so that the value of
gas will increase' to the point
-where it no longtr will be vented
into the air and wasted.”
The commissioner spoke at the
third anniversary celebration of
the discovery of the Carthage oil
field, one of the largest In the
world.
tions for Lewis’ sentence.
Goldsborough ruled that Lewis
and the UMW were guilty of both
civil and criminal contempt of
court. There is no limit on penal-
ties for civil contempt except the
discretion of the court. The max-
imum penalty for criminal con-
tempt is six months imprisonment
and a $1,000 fine.
Rebekah Lodge
Postpones Work
In Barn Degree
Barn Degree which was to be
sponsored by the Rebekah Lodge on
December 6, at the IOOF Home,
has been postponed until a later
date. •
Oakland Mayor Asks
Council to Proclaim
State of Emergency
Oakland, Calif. Dec. 4. (UP)-*
An AFL mass strike locked a
stranglehold for the second day on
the lives of 1,000,000 persons in the
metropolitan Oakland area today,
and Mayor Herbert L. Beach asked
the city council to proclaim a state
of emergency.
With thousands of wage earners
unable to travel to work, and
thousands more deprived of fresh
foods and newspapers, the mayor
branded the strike “a physical as-
sault on the rights of more than
a half million people” and declar-
ed:
“No community can exist in an-
archy.”
He asked the city council to pro-
claim the state of emergency early
today.
While this did not imply martial
law, the mayor assumed immedi-
ate command of the police forct,
with power to call out extra police
and seek the aid of “the communi-
ty as a whole” to take the steps
necessary to maintain “peace and
order.”
Even as the council prepared to
act, citizens of Oakland and those
of a dozen neighboring communi-
ties awoke to find their plight had
worsened considerably in 24 hours.
Food supplies were dwindling,
and no replenishment was possible.
Stores and restaurants were closed
or closing as stocks ran out.
Polio Training
Scholarships
Now Offered
Railroad Workers
To Get Increase in
Survivor Benefit
Fort WTorth, Tex., Dec. 4. (UP) —
Increases in survivor benefit pay-
ments were in/line today for ap-
proximately 200,000 persons under
terms of a newly-amended railroad
retirement act.
Frank R. Keener, Dallas, Regi-
onal Director of the Railroad Re-
^ . _ . tireitoent Board, told more than 1,-
Austin, Tex., Dec. 4.—Four two-
year scholarships for snecial train- 000 rallroad workers that the new
Z f ,P^/( amendment would be effective on
inL^.thl„teea^!n\„0f 1. Survivor benefits, he said,
was something new which the a-
mendment provided and approxi-
mately 40,000 persons now getting
small annuities will receive increas-
es under tire new plan.
Fleener explained that the rail-
road employes would have their
taxes increased from three and
one-half per cent to five and three
fourths pe rcent on Jan. 1 to cover
the added cost, but he felt the
benefits were well worth the in-
crease.
paralysis are open to graduate
nurses of Texas, it was announced
here today by George C. Francis-
co, Jr., ’of Houston, Chairman of
the Texas Executive Committee of
the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Infan-
tile Paralysis Foundation. The next
class will begin in January at the
Kenny Institute at Minneapolis, it
was announced.
Applicants must be graduates of
a recognized nurses school.
Mr. Francisco said that the com-
mittee would award four scholar-
ships in January and another four
for the class which will start in
July at the Kenny Institute. Upon
graduation these nurses will be
sufficiently trained to give instruc-
tion to other Texas nurses in the
Kenny method of treating polio.
The scholarships are the number
one item on aims of the Texas i
Committee in the present campaign
to raise the state quota of $150,-
000. The campaign is now organ-
ized and underway in more than
150 counties of the state, with
several counties already reporting
that they had raised more than
their quota.
Application blanks for the nurses
scholarships can be obtained by
writing to State Headquarters,
Kenny Foundation, Driskill Hotel,
at Austin.
THE WEATHER
East Texas: Fair this afternoon,
tonight and Thursday. Warmer
this afternoon and tonight and in
Southeast portion Thursday. Gen-
tle to moderate variable winds on
the coast.
Christmas Theme Featured at Ennis Garden
Club Meeting Held Tuesday Afternoon
The .Garden Club met in regular : pichard. ^ . the swimming pool grounds and
session at 3.30 o’clock Tuesday af- The mantel was decorated with | sponsor a decorating contest for
ternoon m the Methodist Bunga- j an arrangement of pine cones with I
low with’Mrs. H. R. Thomas, presi- j red tapers in greenery for the ! llstmas‘ A beautlful floor lamp
dent of the club presiding. | candlehotders. A poinsettia added j Wli11 be contributed by the Texas
Mrs. J. Farrar Atwood -was lead- | to the decorations and a manger ’ Power & Light Company for the
er of the program and presented | scene in one corner completed the j best decorated home for Christ-
Mrs. Vernon Willis and Mrs. Jack I decorations.
mas. Out of town judges have' street, also window decox’ations.
Bartlett, who decorated the room ^ Reports were made by Mrs. C. A. j been selected and judging will be
for the program. The Christmas ; Parsons, chairman of the beauti- j held from December 16 to Decem-
theme was featured and a table, , fication committee and Mrs. Fred
overlaid in a handsome lace cloth, j L. Story, plant exchange chairman,
was centered with an arrangement | The club voted to accept Mrs.
of red and green foliage with pine Parsons' recommendation that four
burs and Photima leaves. The ta- ! Japonicas be contributed to each
ble setting was crystal glasses with* I of the Ennis public schools.
ber 25.' Mrs. Thomas requested
that entrants register with the
Chamber of Commerce, phone 118,
who wish to be judged in the con-
test. The registration is necessary
in order that the judges route of
arrival here.
Decorations need not be confined
to the outside for judging. Com-
mittees have decided to accept en-
tries for Christmas tree judging
that will be visible from the
gold border and the China was . The club also voted to landscape j travel may be outlined before their
Hostesses were Mrs. Leonard
Gehrig and Mrs. Garner Dunker-
iey, Jr.
Following the program Mrs.
Thomas gave a brief talk on the
kind of flowers to plant now. She
listed a few of them as tulips, pe-
onies, poppies, larkspur, phlox and
many others.
Pictured above is Ernest Deagen
of Garretv who brought in an 8-
point buck: from a recent deer hunt
at Southerland Springs, near San
Antonio. He was accompanied on
the trip by his brother, Amos Dea-
gen. The deer weighed 120 pounds.
Rev. Harmon
Guest Speaker
For Lions Club
Rev. W. O. Harmon, pastor of
the First Christian Church of Cor-
sicana was the guest speaker for
the regular weekly luncheon meet-
ing of the Lions Club which was
held today noon, in the Texas Pow-
er & Light Company assembly
room with Joe Hawkins, president
of the club presiding.
The Rev. Harmon, who was in-
troduced by the Rev. J. T. Duvall,
program chairman, delivered a
most interesting and educational
address' on the moblems confront-
ing the world today. He presented
the question “Are we doing any-
thing about the freedom that we
enjoy today?”
Guests introduced today were R,
W. Hesser, guest of Tom Moseley,
R. J. Thompson of Harrisburg, Pa.,
guest of Joe Hawkins and Mrs.
Clyde Robertson attended for Mr.
Robertson, who is attending the
Masonic Grand Lodge in Waco.
Waiters next week will be Gor-
don Harkins, W. C. Howard, A. T.
Hammond,, C. E. Kendall and Mau-
rice Kirkpatrick.
The club voted to dispense with
two meetings, that of December
25 and New Years Day, both dates
fa11 ■'vn wodpAsday.
Mr. Hawkins announced that the
following new members had been
placed on committees: Dr. Walter
McCall, Constitution and By laws;
R. R. Bunch, Publicity; Finley Pos-
ton, Summer Recreation and Geo.
Gainer, Attendance.
The first issue of the Lions Bull-
etin was distributed today by Miss
Jeanne Harkins, Lions Club Sweet-
heart. This bulletin will appear
each month edited by James Allen
and Rev. J. T. Duvall.
Dem ASayi v
Remove Stains
From Linens Quickly
Among the cleaning-up duties of
the housewife, iollowing a series of
holiday dinners, is likely to be the
job of removing stains from table
linens. Such stains should be re-
moved as promptly as possible and
always begore the linens go into
the general wash, warns Miss Jo
Ann Millican, County Home De-
monstration Agent.
Many stains, easily removed by
prompt, correct treatmtnt, may e
permanently set by the heat and
scap of regular laundering. Meth-
ods for removing some common
dinner-table stains are described
by Miss Millican.
Thickened gravy which has dried
on the cloth should be scraped off
with a dull knife, and the spot
sponged with cold or luke warm
water. If grease spots still reman
they should be treated with a
grease solvent and the cloth wash-
ed in warm suds and rinsed.
Cranberry or other cooked fruit
stans may be removed by pouring
boiling water over the cloth, fol-
lowed by a drop of lemon juice
and a thorough rinsing in cool wa-
ter.
To take off a nice cream stan,
consideration must be given to all
the ingredients. Cool water will
remove egg, sugar and often milk,
but the grease left by the cream
must be sponged out with a grease
solvent. Therefore, the first step
is sponging with cool water and
gentle rubbing; the second step—
'(NEA Telephoto)
BILBO INTENTLY LISTENS TO
WITNESS—Holding his hand to his
ear, Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, olja«f ,«* U L??!ng,“f
Mississippi, listens to a witness
testify before a Senate Campaign
Investigating Committee, holding
hearings in Jackson, Miss. The
committee of three democrats and
two republicans is hearing testi-
mony on racial discrimination on
charges against Bilbo growing out
of the 1946 primary.
I with the solvent and rubbing ; last
step, washin gwith warm, soap-
suds and a thorough rinsing.
Grease solvent will also fee nec-
essary to take out candlewax
stains. The wax must be scraped
off first, and the solvent applied
wTh a sponge or soft cloth. The
solvent' should always be allowed
tc evaporate until the cloth is dry.
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