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THE EVENING NEWS AND THE MORNING TELEGRAM CONSOLIDATED IN 1015. ABSORBED THE DAILY GAZETTE IN 1924.
VOL. 51.—NO. 149.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1949.
Jester Signs Rent Decontrol Bi
T-H Forces Win Another
*x!ound in Senate Voting
Each Strike
Settlement
Plan Loses
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Noted Explosive |6 Hopkins FFA
Expert Murdered (Lads to Get Lone
In Amarillo Star Degrees
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Washington, June 23 — The
Senate “voted today on another
labor amendment. By a vote of
7? to 9, the Senator* rejected the
plan of GOP Senator Wayne
Morse of Oregon to have Congress
deal with national emergency
strikes on a Mif t>y~ca*c basis.
The action amounted to another
taetiral victory for the force* sup-
porting the "'aft-Hartley law pro-
vision whirl let* the government
get in}un<tt<>i! against critical
■ttrthe^Jewever, not all who
*he Mom plan fa-
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Amarillo, June 23.—A well-
known Amarillo explosive expert
was found dead in an Amarillo
tourist court about 9:45 a. m. to-
day.
Pplice said he apparently had
been beaten to death.
He was "Tex” Thornton, 60,
head of the U. S. Nitroglycerin
Company.
Justice of the Peace Charles
W. Carter, acting as coroner, re-
leased the body to an Amarillo
ral home, but returned no
let immediately.
Ajs ambulance driver said that
Thoftrton had been badly beaten
arofend the head by some blunt
instrument.
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Washington. June 23,—-Sup-
porter* and opponenjUj of the in-
junction method of failing na-
tional emergency strike* are
agreed on one point today. Each
*>d« claim* it hold* a slight mar-
gin. But they concede that a
v«t on the hotly contested is-
sue will be clone.
Senators backing the injunc-
tion provision won two prelimi-
nary victories late yesterday The
Senate rejected two other plan*
for dealing with emergency
strike*. However, a peculiar par-
imaientary situation call* for a j
second vote on the so-called
Douglas-Aiken plan possibly j
today, The plan was defeated >
yevterday by a vote of 27 to 55 j
against. It provides for author- *
tsing government seizure off
struck plants for up to 90 days. •
Backer* of the Aiken-Dougla* J
amendment predict they will pick ‘ Korea. Acheion ca’lrd the Korean
up quite a few . second-round’ task of maintaining freedom al-
i^sr. But before the tally, a j most insuperable without United
tfa''* must be taken on still an-
by Senator
GUARDS WHEAT WHICH IS DUMPED ON GROUND—Frank Cain of Happy, Texas, spreads blanket
a* he prepare* for night for guarding 30.090 bushels of wheat. The wheat was dumped on the ground
after the first two day* of heavy harvest had begun in the Amarillo area. (NEA Telephoto),
Acheson Carries Arms-For-
Europe Pleadings to House
<W4aa«M P.uu | One of them is the plan for
Washington, June 23 — Feu! , -lni „ , ;
moie than two hour, the Heu« ^ctsssn on
Foreign Affairs Committee mem- ™ ^* 2 M T"" "?*'
j ly and it probably will involve
long committee hearings and floor
debate. Senate ratification of the
Atlantic Pact is expected without
mocb difficulty.
her* heard Secrete-) of State
Acheson urge am* for Europe.;
passage of the Atlantic Pact, and I
a bill to nrovlde 150-million dol- j
lam in economic aid to Southern i
Tornado Hits
In Nebraska,
$30,000 Damage
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t Mow* uf Oregon, which
require Congress to deal
rk*e-by<ase bast* with each
critical strike. A similar jiropon-
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Yugoslavia Says
Hungary Breaks
Peace Treaty
<*» <WWaU>4 Prtu)
<'omnuini*t-rur> Yugoslavia hat
charged its Communist neighbor,
Hung*iy, jHfiP breaking off trade
ielation* <r\ violating a peace
treaty between those two Balkan
ttagkon*. In » sharply worded
note, the Tito government called
Use breaking off in trade a "de-
liberately planned immoral ami
unjust attack.” The note from
Tito hinted that Moscow inspir-
ed the move, Tito ha* been at
odd* with the Kremlin for over a
year He ha* charged that the
other Russian satellite state* are
trying to starve Yugoslavia out,
• program of economic
eolation.
State* aid soled by June 30th at
the lutest.
The question of economy i* the !
other (tickler. A Senate petition
i* being circulated that would
force a vote' bn a plan to order
President Truman to cut govern-
ment spending in the fiscal year
beginning July 1. If sufficient
name* are secured on the peti-
tion, the ensuing debate and
wrangling also could take up enti-
res .Imm -*!■* Prtu)
Washington, June 23 Secre-
! tary of State Dean Acheson said
j today that Russia ha* been put
| on the defensive is the struggle j rig^'Yine.
f 0t Europ*. He toUJ a new* eon* ... #
fetence that raanlta of the Big , ,‘*rkfr* of
Four Foreign Musters’ Confer- j c,*im lhf* "*«'! but flv* mor*
ence in Parts show that Russia vot*» to m4ke conaideration of
ha* been put on the defensive. ! 'hv I*'*" mandatory under par-
Th* Secretary lashed out ^t| 'i*m*nUar> rule,
what he called the Communist-run
campaign against religious free-
dom in Ctechoeiovakia. He said
the restriction* imposed by the
Communist regime are — and we
quote — “an attempt to subject
religious organizations to the rule
of an Intolerant police state."
Acheson *aid the campaign in
Czechoslovakia follow* the pat-
tern of those already carried out
in Hungary. Bulgaria and the
other Eastern Communist states.
It’s a campaign, Acheson declar-
ed, which violate* the decencies
of chill nation.
Mrs. A. L. Baxley
Oi Rockhill
Dies Thursday
(By ,t mortal.pit Prtu)
Auburn, Nebraska, June 23.—! Teachers
A tornado struck near Auburn, |
Nebraska, lau* Wednesday, rip-
ping through' a hangar at the
Auburn Airport ami damaging
five airplanes.
Damage to the buildings and
planes was estimated at between
20-thousand and 30-thousand dol-
lars. There were no reports of
anyone injured.
A storm struck the town of
Auburn at the same time, bring-
ing one and one-half inches of
rain in Imlf an hour. Auburn is
in Southeastern Nebraska.
Superintendent
Named tor Local
School System
Jack F. Gibson, with the State
Department of Education, located
in Tyler, has been elected Super-
intendent of the Sulphur Springs
School System, according to an
announcement by the local school
board. He fill* the vacancy caused
by the recent resignation of Er-
ccll IV. Brooks as head of the
Sulphur Springs City Schools.
Mr, Gibson comes well recom-
mended a* an able and experi-
enced school man. He has been
with the State Department of
i Education aa Assistant State Su-
! periatendenl for the past year,
| -wring Henderson, Kaufman, El-
i lis, Navarro, Upshur, Smith, Wood
| and Van Zandt counties.
Mr. Gibson has served as super-
j intendent of schools at Covington,
! Whitney, Weimar, and Arp. Dur-
I ing tile past fiftoen years he has
made considerable progress as
! school administrator, and is rec-
ognised as a school leader by the
I people of hie profession, being an
active worker in the Texas State
Association, and the
Six Future Farmers of America
from Hopkins county have been
chosen to receive Lone Star De-
grees by the Executive Commit-
tee of the State FFA Association.
They were chosen at a meeting
held in Tyler recently, and the
degrees will be bestowed on the
boys at the State FFA meeting
in Dallas July 20-22.
Those who will receive degree*
include Billy Jack Allen, James
Christian, Joe Charles Davidson,
Floyd Maddox, and Charles Rey-
nolds, all of Sulphur Springs, and
Elton Stewart, of Cumby.
Sterling Backham, vocational
agriculture teacher in the Sulphur
Springs school system, and spon-
sor of the FFA Chapter here, re-
ports that Mac McMullan, direc-
tor of the Sulphur Springs High
School Band, will receive an hon-
orary Lone Star Farmers Degree
at the three day convention in
Dallas. This is the highest award
given by the Future Farmers of
America.
The Sulphur Springs High
School Band, directed by McMul-
lan, will be the official band at
the July affair. This, coupled with
the fact that McMullan has pro-
vided musical entertainment with
his band at Northeast Texas FFA
functions many times in the past,
is responsible for the Executive
Committee’s decision to award the
honorary degree to him.
Beckham announces plans to
take at least 20 members of the
local FFA chapter to the Dallas
round-up and that many other
Hopkins youths will be on hand,
also.
Twelve Pago#
Law Effective
90 Days After
Legislature Ends
(By Auociulmi Prtu)
Austin, June 23 — Governor
Jester signed the bill abolishing
rent controls in Texas this morn-
ing.
This means that the measure
is now a law. However, it still
will be some time before the law
goes into effect.
It will become effective ninety
days after adjournment of the
2 Enter Pleas
Of Guilty to
Affray Charges
Two Hopkins County men
plead guilty in Justice Court
JVcdnesday to affray charges, and
were fined. The altercation was
over a crop the men had planted
on the halves.
County Attorney Neil McKay
reports that a Hopkins County
man has paid off eleven “hot
checks” given in this area. The
checks amounted to only $18.30,
and the largest one given was
for $2.50, McKay stated.
City police booked two men in
actions Wednesday night. Both
were charged with intoxication.
The highway patrol filed one
charge with Justice of Peace Ben
R. Ramey. It was against a motor-
ist for driving without a license.
Romania Tortures
Catholic Bishops
$3,500 More for
House Members
Office Expense
(lh Arummhd P>*mi
Washington. June 28.—Con-
gress is still hoping for adjourn-
ment by late July or early Aug-
ust. But there if the possibility
of a delay became of at least two
controversial Items.
Killed in Airliner
sh Off Italian Coast
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€v#r Sm X1 i Sharp Quake
rlinea •
In Bay Area
Of San Francisco
Mrs. A. L. Baxley, who lived at
; Rockhill, East of Sulphur Springs
■ on U. S. Highway 67, auecumb-
: ed at the I*jngino Hospital about
2:30 Thursday afternoon, follow-
i ing a lingering illness.
The deceased is survived by her
husband; three sons, Herman Bax-
ley and Muiray Baxley, both of
! Washington State, ami Ernest
i Baxley. Abilene; flv# sisters, Mrs.
j Ada Pounds, Yantis, Mrs. L. M.
Campbell, Sulphur Springs; Mrs.
; H. D. McGinnis and Mrs. Nolan
Terrell, both of Abilene, and Mrs.
George Talley, of Quinlan:
Mrs. Huxley was the daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Smith of Hopkins County.
Funeral arrangements are pend-
i Big.
Oil Stove Blast
Damages House
On Ross Street
Two rooms of the four-room
residence of O. C. White on Ross
street was damaged considerably
Wednesday by a blase caused by
the exploding of an oil cook stove.
The Fire Department received j •J.d
the call to the fire at 5 p.m., and
extinguished the blaze
burned through the walls.
National Education Association.
Mr. Gibson is a graduate of
Grand Saline High School, Wes-
ley College, Trinity University,
Texas Christian University and has
attended East Texas State Teach-
cal College. He has done addition-
before it! *** wo,k beyond Master’s De-
How-I*™* 8t ^'ex,w A.AM. College and
, , , i the University of Texas in the
ever, a large hole was burned, from of .-ghol t c0UlW’ in the
through the roof of the house, and (fields of Supervision, Adminiatra*
the interior of two rooms was tion, and School Finance.
In addition, Superintendent
burned badly.
Bari A*)y. Jon* 23. -
S*i pe» -Tu were killed
wfcen a Royal Dutch Airline*
plane crashed into the sea near
Bari, on the southeast coast of
Italy.
The Italian New* Agency As-
tra *aid that there were soma
American* aboard the plane, but
tills could not be confirmed tm-
mtdUicfy.
According to an Italian news-
paper 21 bodies already have
bean recovered from tbe sea just
cwtaide the Port of Bari. Earlier
said the plane went:
in flames from an altitude j water storage
U,000 feet.
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Slightly Cooler
Here Thursday
Cloudy, and slightly cooler
weather prevailed in the vicinity
of Sulphur Springs Thursday.
Weathermen Ralph Hill gave the
early morning temperature read-
ing at 76 degrees, and at noon,
the mercury was at 86 degrees,
dropping from 91 degrees record-
ed at mid-morning.
i ■ 1* U . . . Sulphur Spring, had ita hottest
-----, , “JSa^ “'d ‘‘ c'UWMl ,I,0Ut day of the se.son Wednesday,
went i $50,000 to $.5,000 damage to *, with the mercury surging all the
system in Golden (way to 98 degrees. Previous high
(a* Aimr.ttM Ptnul
San Francisco, June 23 — A
sharp, two-minute earthquake was
felt in San Francisco and the bay
area early Thursday.
Gate Park.
was 96 degrees, Hill disclosed.
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May Start
Talks on
Jap Peace
(Bj P’ftil
Washington, June 23—Interna-
tional diplomats are said to be con-
sidcringrine potusibi'itie* of a con-
ference on a Japanene peace
treaty. ..There is no sign of a
break in the East-West deadlock
on the issue. However, Soviet
Minister ViiJiinsky moved for a
treaty on Japan at the close of
the recent Big-Four conference in
Peru.
Gibson ha* had considerable ex-
perienre in working in consolidat-
ed districts, with the aim of help-
ing the rural boy and girl to get
a better education, lie ha. bed
various experience in building
programs, and has left each school
in better financial circumstance,
than he found them, according to
reports received here.
A successful high school coach,
he helped to defray his college
expenses by participating in ath-
letic*, and believes that a good
athletic program is essential in
the public school but a good
scholastic record should be a pre-
requisite.
The Gibson family consists of
Prof. Gibson, Mrs, Gibson, and
two children, a son of 10, and a
daughter of five years. They plan
to move to Sulphur Springs by
the first of July, but Mr. Gibson
is already mi the ground and at
work, having assumed his new
detie* Thursday morning.
(Rff AnsonnUd Pr*$#)
Washington, June 23 — House
members will get -3,500 more a
year under a bill signed by Presi-
dent Truman today. The money
is to provide more clerical help
and more telephone and tele-
graph service for the Representa-
tives. In signing the bill, Mr. Tru-
man repeated his previous state-
ments that top government offi-
cials should get a salary raise.
In other White House action,
the Chief Executive also signed
an 862-million-dollar appropria-
tion bill. It supplies funds for
federal workers who have been
temporarily without pay.
(By Amwciaiai Bren)
Vatican City, June 23—Sources
at the Vatican have disclosed that
Communist officials in Romania
have put to torture two leading
bishops of the Uniate Church in
an effort to break their allegiance
to Pope Pius. The Uniate Church
is a Romanian branch of the Ro-
man Catholic faith. It was out-
lawed by the Communist regime
in Romania.
51st Legislature plus 15 days for
Federal processing. The date
adjournment is still uncertain.
This is the measure that
red up one of the session's hot-
test controversies. The bill went
back to Jester’s desk yesterday
with an opinion from Attorney
General Price Daniel that it would
stand up legally.
Here is a statement from Jes-
ter following his signing of the
rent decontrol measure:
“The Legislature, in passing
the decontrol measure, ha* de-
clared Federal rent controls are
no longer needed in Texas and,
in the same act, has provided tha
the governing body of any city or
town may establish rent control
for the duration of a housing
emergency in Texas.”
The Federal Housing Adminis-
trator, Tighe Woods, recently vis-
ited Governor Jester in an effort
to have the governor veto the
measure.
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(By 4hk«M Prtu)
Austin, June 23.—A new bond
plan for financing construction
of public buildings received Lieu-
tenant Governor Allan Shivers
blessing today , . . and it was ap-
proved by a Senate Committee.
Legislative approval of the
measure would be a major step
toward breaking the log-jam over
state finances and would clear
the way for a quick ending of
the 51st session.
It appears iiktly that this is tha
route to be followed.
The measure was introduced
yesterday by Senator Searcy
Braswell of Houston.
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WEATHER
iHv Anmtrmtrd Prfg$l
East Texas — Partly cloudy
tonight and Friday. Widely scat-
tered thundershowers in the (Mrth-
east and near the upper coast.
Not much changes in temperature.
West Texas — Partly cloudy j munUt government apparently has
tonight and Friday. Not muchj succeeded in clamping a wall of
change In temperatures. j silence around him.
(By AuariaUH prtu)
In Czechoslovakia, the struggle
between church and state is mov-
ing rapidly toward a showdown.
According to a Vatican source, the
arrest of Czech Archbishop Josef
Beran is expected at any time.
The Communist-run govern-
ment has accused the Archbishop
of working against the state. A
Communist-led organization of
Catholics has joined the govern-
ment in the attack on the prelate.
Meanwhile, the Archbishop con-
tinues firm in his opposition to
the Communist plan for using
Catholic schools as a medium for
spreading Marxist doctrine. But
the Archbishop is a virtual pri-
soner in his own house, and he
hasn’t been heard from in nearly
a week. According to several
Czech Catholic priests, the Com-
British Warship
Reaches Mouth of
Yangtze River
Iih Aatutrialfd Pr**$)
There is considerable specula-
tion as to the reason* for a Brit-
ish sloop's arrival off the mouth
of the Yangtze River near Shang-
hai. Some observers are of the
opinion that the British war-
ship's arrival means that efforta
may be made to run a National-
ist blockade of Chinese Commu-
nist ports. The blockade is sche-
duled to be imposed on ill Chi-
nese Red ports from Foochow
northward beginning Sunday.
Auto Collides
With Marker on
Square Here
An automobile occuppied by
four soldiers crashed into the
concrete slab bearing the highway
signs in the Northwest part of tho
square here early Thursday morn-
ing.
Sheriff Avera Resure reported
that the driver was looking at
the sign on Connally street and
failed to see the slab. No one
was injured, he reported, but the
front part of the soldiers' ear
was damaged considerably. The
mishap occurred about 7 a.m.
Startling Testimony in Hiss
Trial Names Francis Sayre
1 f&v Asmemfed Prttmi
New York, June 23—Former
State Department official Alger
Hiss took the stand in his own de-
fense today at his perjury trial
in New York.
Hiss almost immediately con-
firmed his grand jury testimony
that he had never given State De-
partment documents to Whitta-
ker Chambers—and that he had
not seen Chambers after January
first, 1937.
Hia* also swore that, he never
has been a member of the Com-
munist party, never was a fdttow
traveller, or a Communist sym-
pathizer.
Earlier, a surprise defense wit-
ness quoted Whittaker Chambers
as stating in 1940 that the head
of the Communist apparatus in the
State Department was former As-
sistant Secretary of State Francis
B. Sayre.
The defense witness waa Mal-
colm Cowley of Sherman, Connec-
ticut, a contributing editor to the
magazine New Republic.
However, Hiss lawyer—Lloyd
Paul Stryker—immediately repu-
diated Cowley'# statement. In
agreement with a comment by
Judge Samuel Kaufman, the de-
fense lawyer explained that the
| writers tastuiony w*a off#
. :y‘h i^rm
only to show that chief
tion witness, Whittaker
made inconsistent remarks.
Stryker quickly
“Mr. Sayre was a
loyal member of the
at all times.”
Cowler had i________
bars made the remark al
on December 13, IS
ing in a New “
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