The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1947 Page: 1 of 16
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THE CLARKSVIUiE TIMES. KlilDAY, JANUARY 24, 1947 /-
Jester Becomes
Thirty-Seventh
Governor Texas
Austin. Texas,—Beauford Halbert
Jeste7”of Corsicana’wasT Inaugurated
thirty-seventh Governor of Texas
Tuesday noon In impressive cere-
monies acompanlaa by a tumul-
tuous demonstration of homage and
affection by thousands of Texans
gathered here from all parts of the
state.
Bands blared, airplanes overhead
dipped In salute, choruses sang vic-
tory songs and the citizenry cheer-
ed in wild acclaim. It was a fitting
climax to last summer's hectic
primary battles in which Jester won
the Democratic nomination.
Many ptate and local officials
participated together with a distin-
guished company of Governors and
other; top-panking representatives
from Mexico and other Latin
American countries who Journeyed
here to offer the felicitations of
their governments.
The military was well represent-
ed fiy a colorful contingent of high-
ranking officers headed by the hero
of Bataan. Gen. Jonathan Waln-
wright. The officers were resplend-
ent In their striking uniforms heav-
ily brocaded in gold, their chests
covered with service ribbons of
rainbow hues and the highly cover-
ed decorations for valor.
\ Allan Shivers of Port Arthur was
formally Inducted as Lieutenant
Oojremor in the same setting and
giveh an ovation by the great
throng..
The ceremonies lasted fifty min-
utes and were concluded as the
noted movie star. John Boles, led
the crowd In singing “The Eyes of
Texas," fulfilling a promise he had
made last summer when he cam-
paigned for Jester. Near the con-
clusion of the ceremonies, Tom Ty-
son of Corsicana presented gifts to
Mrs. Beauford Jester and to Mrs.
Oeorge T. Jester.
Cadet officers of Texas A. & M.
College furnished the honor guard
and under their arched swords the
Inaugural party marched to seats
on the platform while the Hardin-
Slmmons Band played "Hail to the
Chief"
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STRICKEN — A1 Capone labove),
prohibition era gang leader, suf-
fered an apoplectic stroxe at his
home on Palm Island, Miami, Fla.
(APWlrephoto).
I
War I Housing
Washington, (A*) — The govern-
ment has closed Its books on 28
years of housing woes left over
from World War I.
The final checkup showed a loss
of $33,911,000 on an original Invest-
ment of $86,500,000.
A report to Congress by Com-
missioner John H. Fahey of the
Federal Home Loin Bank Admin-
istration, told of the final liquida-
tion of the United States Housing
Corporation. It was created in 1918
to provide quarters for war workers.
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Court Holds Sugar
Rationing Invalid
—.—
Washington. (A*) — A Federal
Mg Judge held Wednesday that OPA s
” plan Of rationing sugar to industrial
users is Invalid and an appeal was
announced "in view of the impor-
tance of this Issue to industrial
users and consumers alike."
ip B. Fleming, head of the
of Temporary Controls, said
government will ask that the
be held In abeyance pending
officials said the decision.
V" sg/ Judgp F. Dickinson Letts, docs
a not affect consumers rationing, but
ng said it is possible that un-
it the ruling the present system
_■ rationing to Industrial users
Um- be abandoned.
lid a new system provide
sugar for industrial users, it
noted, there will be that much
..for consumers.
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PRICES
AGAIN
— Butter prices, which
as much as $1 per pound
‘ of OPA controls, skid-
Wednesdav and several
announced Thusday's
be below or equal to
ceilings.
York grocery chains
•tall butter would sell
63 cents a pound.
would
O’Daniel Joins GOP
For Investigation
Wartime Activities
Washington. — Senator W. Lee
O’Daniel voted with Republican
forces Wednesday to assure contin-
uance of the special war Investigat-
ing committee once headed by Pres-
ident Truman.
O’Daniel was the only Democrat
to cross party lines on two roll
calls which paved the way for air-
ings by the special committee of
the late President Roosevelt's ex-
ecutive office war expenditures.
Democra'ic leadership lost, 45 to
47. Its fight to turn the investigat-
ing committee’s functions over to a
s anding committee on expenditures
in executive departments. O’Daniei':;
vote with the Democrats would have
tied the call, but the substi'ute
would have lost for lack of a me
Jority.
O’Daniel went with forty-eight
Republicans in favor of continuing
the special committee on a second
call, while forty-one Democrats gnd
two Republicans voted against It.
Republicans Say
Big Shortage In
House Office Bank
Washington. (/P) — Speaker Mar-
tin iR-Mass) announced that a fi-
nal audit of the accounts of Ken-
neth Rommjy. former sergeant-at-
arms of the House of Representa-
tives. shows a shortage of $125,-
563.73.
Martin said the audit, made by
Lindsay C. Waren comptroller gen-
eral, will be turned over to the at-
torney general “for possible recovery
end Whatever action he deems nec-
tary."
Meanwhile, he said, the cashier’s
office which has been closed since
the audit started early this month,
was reopened Thursday morning
and withdrawals will be limited to
75 per cent of individual deposits
The sergeant-at-arms operates a
banking office for House members
and their staffs.
Martin said he had not read the
entire report and could not say
what constituted the shortage.
Rommey was elected sergeant-as-
r.rms in 1931 and held the office
until Jan. 3 of this year, when he
was succeeded by a Republican.
William Russell of Pennsylvania.
At his home in the Wardman
Park apartment, Rommey was
quoted by his wife as having "noth-
ing to say” when told about ihe
audit report.
Martin said he did not know how
the shortage would be made up but
indicated individual members hav-
ing deposits in the cashier’s office
might be assessed a percentage of
the loss.
There has been some discussion
oi the possibility of an appropria-
tion to make up the defici'. such as
was done in 1890 in a slrilar case.
Martin said Rommey was bonded
for $50,000 as sergeant- at-arms.
VOLV ME 7
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Woman Robs Iowa
Bank in Daylight
Des Moines — (AV- An attractive
brunette, who Police Chief Jack
Brophy said had confessed two un-
assisted bank robberies, was in cus-
tody Wednesday night following
the $2950 holdup of the Des Moines
Bonk & Trust company during the
height of the day’s shopping period.
Brophy said Mrs. Opal Dixon, 38,
of St. Louis, signed a statement ad-
mitting the $582 armed holdup of
the United Bank and Trust Co. of
St. Louis last Dec. 26 as well as
Wednesday’s robbery In which she
thratened to “blow this place to
pieces" with contents of a silver
medical syringe.
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JESTER WILL ADDRESS
LEGISLATURE TUESDAY
Truck, Car Crash
Kills Two People
Dallas,—A shattering head-on col-
lision southwest of Garland on
United Statts Highway 67 added two
deaths Wednesday to Dallas Coun-
ty's record-breaking 1947 *trafflc
toil.
Killed were C. A; Christensen.
2944 McFarlin, owner of an auto
tire company here that bears his
name, his cousin, Mrs. Camlllt
Powers of Sedalia. Mo. They met
instant death when their light
coupe and a heavy butane gas truck
collided head-on at a curve two-
and-a-half miles this side of Gar-
land, a little after 4 a. m.
The truck was knocked fourteen
feet backward from the point of
collision. Its driver, John Ralph
Garner, Clarksville, was thrown
clear and escaped with minor in-
juries. The coupe was wrecked.
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GUILTY TO
TAX EVASION
tAV- Martin Kornblatt of
Nick ElUpolus of Dal-
ded guilty to inoome
arges before Federal
of the Bos-
was fined $8,-
along with a
penalty oM$M,00a^
tax and penalty
Austin. I/P) — Discord on nearly
everything but weekend adjourn-
ment Wednesday threatened to
open a wide breach in the 59th
Legislature.
Heated temoers were noticeable
especially In the House of Repre-
sentatives where members debated
for more than two hours before
tabling. 82-56. a resolution by Rep.
Cleude Gilmer of Rock Springs to
adjourn the Legislature sine die at
noon May 13.
Before adjournment of both
houses to Monday morning, it was
announced Oov. Beauford Jester
will make his first message to the
Legislature at a Joint session at 11
a. m. Tuesday.
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REPAIR WORK APPROVED
FOR HIGHWAY NO. 37
Wednesday the State Highway
Commission appropriated $10,000
for repairing the White Oak bridge
on Highway No. 37 south of Bogata
and other Improvements from the
bridge south to 8ulphur River. Con-
siderable damage occured to this
highway In the 8ulphur river bot-
tom during the overflow last fall.
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KILLED IN TEXAS
AUTO ACCIDENT
Georgetown, Texas —(AV- How-
ard Pleas Wheeler, 37. was killed
instantly when the automobile In
which h« wa riding and a truck
were In a collision.
Hi* father. Judge C. A. Wheeler
of Austin, formerly of New Boston
and Texarkana, sovereign grand
master of the Odd Fellows, was In
Vicksburg. Mias., tand out short his
visit there when he was notified of
Dr. Wheeler’s death.
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Hoover to Feed
Europe Again
Washington —(A*)— Former Pres-
ident Herbert Hoover, who fed mil-
lions of Europeans engulfed by
Kaiser Wilhelm’s armies In World
War I, Wednesday accepted a new
long-range mission to help get the
survivors of Hitler’s Germany back
on their feet
Accepting the assignment from
President Truman, Hoover told
newsmen It the White House:
There Is little prospect that Ger-
man food production will match
internal needs for the next two or
three years.
His mission will include non-
Russian zones of both Germany
end Austria and will be directed to
"food and Its collateral problems."
"It Is hoped that methods can be
devised which will relieve some of
the bdrden on the American tax
payer.”
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TEEN-AGED GANGSTERS
HELD AT HOUSTON
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JESTER SWORN IN AS GOVERNOR—Beauford Jester (right) takes the oath of office as governor of Texas. The oath D administered by
Texas supreme’ court Justice James P. Alexander at the state Capitol in Austin, Texas. (APPhoto).
Georgia Students
Hang Talmadge
In Effigy
'Stevenson Picks
Bible Quotations
For Gov. Jester
Atlanta I/P) — A crowd of more Austin, (A*l— "Study to shew thy-
than 1200 shouting college students | .'elf approved unto God, a work-
hanged Herman Talmadge In effigy j man that needeth not to be asham-
on Georgia's Capitol grounds a few Ied' rl«ht‘y dividing the word of
hours after he offered to 1st the
Democrats Cry
‘Gag Rule’ Over
New Committee
controversy over the governorship
be decided in a ’’Democratic white
primary" election.
A dummy denoting Herman,
claimant to the governorship
through a legislative election, was
hanged from the statue of Tom
Watson, famous Georgia agricultural
leader, while the crowd whooped.
Talmadge, who took possession
of the executive offices last week
by outmancuvering retiring Gover-
nor Ellis Arnall. declined to address
the crowd but received a delegation
and later a group of pro-Talmadge
students.
He demurred when the latter
group offered to organize a demon-
stration In his behalf, asserting "I
want my friends to stay out of mob
demonstrations."
The hundreds of students, repre-
senting Atlanta's colleges and others
throughout the stale, gathered in
the center of the city’s business dis-
rict and then marched gaily to the
statehouse.
Many of the students facetiously
gave the Nazi salute and some bore
swastika emblems. One banner
proclaimed Georgia "does not want
a Nazi governor.”
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Washington —(JP)— A Democrat-
ic cry of “gag rule" mingled with
renewed Republican demands for
I budget and tax cutting this week
, j ... as an unprecedented congressional
Governor Stevenson marked Oils omm,ttee organlled to review
passage from Second Timothy, the | Presldent Truman’s $37,500,000,000
second chapter and 15th verse, to bud t and t lts own ceiUng on
guide Beauford H. Jester In his
first term as governor.
He followed a tradition estab-
lished by Pat M. Neff, now presi-
nt of Baylor University, under
ich the outgoing governor under-
lines <■ -ripture for his successor.
S.evenson, at his final press con-
ference as goyemor, told reporters
deni
whii
spending.
Tempers flared as the 102-member
Senate-House budget committee,
created by the new Reorganization
Act, held its first meeting behind
closed doors and named a 20-man
subcommittee to do the actual work
—12 Republicans and eight Dem-
ocrats.
he was torn between that passage; sector o’Mahoney (D-Wyo.)
and one from the 18th chapter ot emtTge(j from the executive session
Exodus which he said recommended louring to newsmen:
tfee actual beginning of local self
government.
In this passage, Moses chose able
men out of all Israel as leaders.
The outgoing governor asked the
advice of the 18 newspaper men as
to which would be the more suit- I
able, and they voted unanimlusly
for the New Testament scripture.
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GIRL REFUSES CLEMENCY
OFFERED BY COURT
Houston — Seven members of a
t.een-aee gang Wednesday were be-
ing held under bonds totaling $138,-
500 while awaiting trial on 56 charg-
es of hijacking.
Bonds ranged from $40,000 for
Jesse Frank Howard, 19, to $1000,
set for Mrs. Dorothy Jester, 21, the
only woman charged. Witnesses had
Identified Howard as the armed
man in the series of hijackings.
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CAPONE SUFFERS
APOPLEXY STROKE
Miami. Fla. —OPi— Dr. Kenneth
Phillips said A1 Capone had suffer-
ed sn apoplectic stroke and had
been administered the last rites of
the Catholic church.
COMPLAINT IS FILED
AGAINST DeKALB MAN
The Texarkana Gazette reported
Thursday morning that a comnlaint
of second degree negligent homi-
cide was filed against Leroy Gallo-
way, DeKalb, Tuesday In connec-
tion with a wreck which resulted In
~ art at
$1,349,$45 STORES
SOLD FOR $556,703
Paris, (A”)— Millions of gallons of
gasoline and stores of lubricating
oils and other property, comprising
United States. Army surplus sup-
plies on Santa Maria Island in the
Azores, have been purchased by the
Socony-Vacuum Company for $556,-
703, the office of the United 8tates
Soreign Liquidation Commission an-
nounced. The supplies were estimat-
ed to have cost the United States
$1,349,945. .
j Dallas — Betty Louhe LaViolette,
23. ol Houston, refused an offer of
probation on an automobile theft
charge In the United States District
Court and asked for a three-year
sentence to match the one given
her campanlon. Rad Milton Powell,
30.
The girl told Efi Nolette, proba-
tion officer:
"My sweetheart got three years
and I don't want to go to work and
wear myself out sending him clg
“A gag rule has been, adopted at
the beginning of this Congress.
The committee has voted to give
carte blanche authority to a 20-
man subcommittee, with members
of the full committee denied an
opportunity to voice their views.
The subcommittee will not even
tell the whole committee when it
Is meeting."
To which Representative Keefe
(R-Wls.), who was not named to
the subcommittee, replied:
"O’Mahoney is crazy as a bed-
bug If he says It’s a gag rule.”
One Dead, Two
Hurt in Crash
Texarkana, — Louis F. Calloway,
I 26. of DeKalb. one of two white
Cu 'Z' men Injured In a headon automobile
arettes and money while he is do- ____. ' o,
Ing his time. To hell with him ” rrash. uear Hoofc ^rly Sunday
United States District Judge T. I moI™f which claimed the life of
Whitfield Davidson granted her a ne*ro man' was relea d from
Texarkana Safe
Blast Yields
$1200 in Cash
Texarkana. — Officers scanned a
few meager clues left by robbers
who forced the front door of a large
cafe, blasted an office safe and fled
with $1,200 before dawn Tuesday.
Officials of the Coffee Cup Res-
taurant, on Highway 67 In the Tex-
arkana, Ark., city limits, reported
the loss. The office. Including equip-
ment, was wrecked by the explosion,
officers 'aid.
Howard Giles, fingerprint expert
on the Texarkana. Ark., police
force, announced Tuesday after-
noon several fingerprints were be-
ing checked. A sledge hammer and
a wiring used to set off the explo-
sive were left behind, police said.
Lee Davis, owner of the cafe, re-
ported that a watch also was taken.
Authorities, who termed the loot-
ing professional, said the operation
resembled an unsuccessful safe rob-
bery attempt early Monday at Og-
den, Ark., north of this city.
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Negroes Hold Up Two
Liquor Stores
Two heavily armed negro men
strolled Into two Texarkana, Ark.,
liquor stores within a 15 minute
period, scooped an estimated $1000
out of cast} registers, threatened to
kill the proprietors, and in one In-
stance attacked a customer before
fleeing.
Both negroes, at large are armed
Charges
European
Donations!
Washington — ,
woman has openlj
clothing donated i
Relief Drive, was sold i
resold to Americans,
lng shipped to war reMef '
Europe.
The woman Is Mrs.
of Falrdale, N. D., wl
donated a dress to j
drive last year. She
note inside the sleeve i
of good luck" to the needy 1
woman who wears it.
Mrs Midjaas got a
wer to her note. It came fro
Elizabeth Ohiauser, who lives s
200 miles away In Hazetton, N
and who reported she
dre s from a Chicago
house for 18c.
Miss Ohiauser explained
bought 100 dresses sight
response to an advertisement ]
by the Chicago firm. She ]
$18 for the lot.
Senator Milton Young,
North Dakota, who told the
ate all about the incident eald
Midjaas is pretty unhappy
the whole deal and winte
thing done about it.
Young said the Senate i
vestigate. He would like tO§l
how the mail order house got
dress that was donated for
pean relief. Also, he wants to !
how much other clothing has
the same way.
Chairman George D.
(Rep.) of Vermont, of the
committee on executive
tures, said he would be glad to i
investigating at once.
Mt Pleasant Is
Visited By Quick
Change Artists
Mt. Pleasant, Texas —
change artists are
Pleasant and surrounding i
itles again, according
Coy Coker, and local buo»«
ar£ warned'(hat attempts
made at any time to tap :
registers.
Sheriff Coker said that
reports have been received
the past few days where 1
been sustained by merchants
have been hit by the s ‘
most instances the old
trick was used. A .cmallJ
trade and the buyer presents
or a $20 bill in payment, and
for change As soon as the
is given he usually finds t
had a smaller bill in his pocket i
wants to get his bigger one
with two additional pistols taken As adjustments are being made
from one of the store operators.
Victims of the double robberies
were Byron Crowell, night man-
ager of the Seven-Eleven liquor
store, 711 East Broad street, and
H. M. Barnes, owner manager of
two white the F'3ur Roses Liquor store. Eighth
- m 1 and Hazel streets.
request, ’’Sentenced
years.
her to three
negro man, was released
Michael Meagher hospital.
Calloway's companion, James Le-
roy Bailey. 22. of Avery, remained
under observation after receiving
treatment for a severe leg lacera-
tion and head Injuries.
Hunters Find Two
Human Skeletons
_ ___ Plainview, Texas. (Ab — Leland
Lacyola Gray, ^Clarksville negro, Hart. Floyd county sheriff and other
' evffinnre non imiAifinniln. ...I
was believed to have died Instantly
after the car he was driving
smashed Into a vehicle occupied by
Calloway and Bailey.
Authorities said the case would
be turned over to the Bowie county
grand Jury for further considera-
tion.
FOUR BOYS. 11 TO IS.
HELD FOR THEFT
Marshalltown, la.. (A7— Pour boys
from 11 to 13 were bound over to
Juvenile Court on charges of tak-
ing $14,000 cash from the home of
Henry Tretter, railway worker.
All but $300 of the sum was re-
covered from, an old shed and a
junked car where the youths had
hid the money. Tretter said the
money represented his life’s sav-
ings. accumulated since 19C1.
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HOOVER ASKED TO MAKE
FOOD SURVEY OVERSEAS
officers are investigating an evident
double mystery after the finding of
a human skiull and parts of two
skeletons in remote Blanco canyon.
Hart and his companion returned
to the canyon where the bones were
found by Petecrsburg boys on a
hunting trip.
The skull and bones svere!brought
to the Hale county sheriff's office
here. A dentist said the skull prob-
ably was that of a person in the
early twenties and that some of the
bones evidently were those of an
older person. Officers believe that
the bodies were placed In the can-
yon in comparatively recent mon’hs
crook keeps up a steady flow of
and before the merchant
what has happened the money
changed hands two or three
he has become confused, or
clerk has, and the crook walks ax
with $5 or $10 more than
to start with.
Marshall Takes
Oath of Office
Washington — (A>)— C
C Marshall, who has
tioned as a possible
nominee, declared that
could be drafted" for
flee
Then with Democrat*
publicans applauding the
equalled forthrightness of his i
ment, he took the oath as i
of state and promised to
be't" with the vast problems i
ing in upon him.
Marshall’s statement,
newsmen who greeted I
the bleak morning, wa
designed to dlsentangl
as secretary of state
No persons here were unaccount-1 litlcal complications.
ed for.
UNION OFFICIALS 1
JAILED IN DALLAS
Dallas, — Four
Dallas Teamsters X
of them officials,
contempt of court try !
STUDENTS STORM CAFITOL 7 his crowd of 1.200 college students
inarches on the capital of Oeorgla In Atlanta In an unsuoceksful effort ■
obtain Herman Tahr Edge’s Immediate resignation a*, governor, ■
of the mmhc-rs gave the Nazi salute and some of them boi
Swatstika
Washington, (^F— Former Presi-
dent Hoover has been asked to un-
dertake a survey of food problems
in the American and British zones
of occupied Qermsny.
This was disclosed by a War
Department official who asked that
his name not be used. He said
Hoover has not yet given his ans-
wer.
Presumably the proposal to the
72-year-old former president has
the approval of the British govern-
ment and President Truman as well
as the highest War
.; r
!■ IT i II v hi
Ika emblems. In background,
participant* hang Talmadge tn
- Wstson.
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MEXICAN OFFICIAL
ADDRESSES HOUSE
Austin, Teaxs, — 'Jose Lopez Ber-
mudez. Speaker of Congress for the
Republic of Mexico extended greet- ___
tags Tuesday to the Texas House. IW L Thornton
Here with a group of officials | fined and sentenced
from the state of Chihuahua. Oon- Judge Thornton
gressman Lopez Mermudez deliver- four men viol*ted a
ed a brief address through an in- | junction
terpriter. which restrained
There 1* a Language we can all picketing or se
understand," the Speaker satd. "It warehouses of
is the language of friendship. It is ! Company.
* great thing we are here ta wit- C. B Kepke,
nes* today We understand that secretary of ;
Governor Jester is a great fri
of Mexico.”'
New York. (Ab— The rich
r of storied
ht paid
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