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PUBLISHED SIX DATS
A WEEK FEATURING
LOCAL NEWS
Breckenridge American
UNITED PRESS Wire Service
Devoted to the Dissemination of Information and Upbuilding of Stephens l ojnty
NEA Feature Service
_ WEATHER
Severe cold ««t« with fwiim
rain or snuw in Panhandle. !.«*■
est temperatures tonight zero to
12 in Panhandle and In to ehe-
* here.
IAMG0N IS IHMCTED FOR Loss of Forma
LYING IN SENATE FINE ON AiticipaM By
FONN COUNTS BY GBANB JBBY U.S. la Report
•UP
WASH1 \i ,T< \. Jan. .!
IVipper John Marago|>, «h
boasted easy access : i the White
House, u;js indicted by a federal
gnuid jury „v on charts of
Senate investigation of "influence
mi'' peddlers."
VOL. 30 M>. n
Texas Holidays
Death Toll 188;
Half In Traffic
(By UNITED PRESS)
At lejMrt IRK persons died vioW nt-
ly in Texas during the Christ mas-
New Year's season. a United P res-
ile pa rtnient of l*ublic .Safety sur-
vey sIi« \a 'H fxiiiy.
The long New Year's weekend j b'ng r" Senate investigators. j mittee he had no bank account in
saw 50 deaths. more than half of Maragon. p:« of Maj. (Jen. Harry I!)45 or l!(4fi, except One in the
them <mi Texas highways and \aughan. i'ns.dent Truman's | Union Trust Co. here.
streets. There were 2 i traffic fatal military aid< . Wa
ities reported from p. in. Friday ,c"unts "{ perjury
until midnight laftt ni^ht. During
that period, eight persons died iri
a. fire, two were killed in a plane
crash, one was drowned and 1*1
died fr ro miscellaneous causes.
Roger George Lane, .'ill, was
killed yesterday when a freight
train struck his car and dragged
it half a mile frr>m a Texas <fc I'a-
cific grade crossing nee/- Grand
Saline.
Three persons suffered critical
injuries in un accident west of!
Hale Center yesterday which took
the life of W. H. Overman, who
lived in Hale Center. Their auto
rammed a parked truck.
Sirt. James K. I'aul, IS-year-old
soldier from Shawnee, Okla., and
an unidentified companion crash- (
ed to theor deaths shortly after
taking off yesterday from Lub-
bock Municipal Airport, in heavy
fog. The two soldiers, stationed at
Fort Bliss near Kl Paso, attempted
the takeoff without control tower
clearance, which was refusid hi
cause of fog The plane burned.
A fire which swept through a
house near Rosenberg Saturday
claimed its sixth and seventh vic-
tims vesteiiiay when Lucia Rodng
uez. f . and Tomas Rodriguez. ! .
died of (turns. Four otner persons
sustained critical burns.
M ariitn Szubert, 18, member of a
family of displaced persons moved
to Krenham recently from Furope.
was foiind in a creek near Kren-
ham yesterday. He apparently
drowned when he tried to wade the
creek.
Ihirmg the entire holiday seas
on. st ilting at > p. m. Dec. S.'., ,
there were 8!t traffic deaths in
eluded in the total of !X violent
deaths.
Fires accounted for Zit fatalities
plane crashes four, drowning one '
and miscellaneous violence 71.
During the ttMfTs Christmas- 1
New Year's period, which w; s one
day shorter t'naii the one ending
last night, 150 persons were kill
ed—7R. in traffic accidents, 4o in
murders and suicides and 34 by
miscellaneous nouses.
In a comparable period this sea-
son. excluding Jan. 2, there were
17J deaths—Ifct traffic. 51) miscel-
laneous a Mil 42 murders (ml sui-
cides. ^ . .
, The of,Public Safety
predicted there would he i;>4 vio-
lent fatalities.
BKKC KFMUIX.K, TEXAS
-TUESDAY, JAN. lil.'x)
I'KKK 5 CENTS PER t'OPI
Hy EARNEST HOBERECHT
United Press Staff Correspondent
The indictment charged that: | TOKYO, Jan. 'I I.1 The I . S.
I. He lied on July 28 when he! State Departm. nl has notified Us
told the Senate investigating com- attaches that the loss of Formosa.
1 island redoubt of the ( hmese
Nationalists to the Communists
was to be anticipated.
The department said the public
must be sold on the idea that the
island is of no strategic value in
order to prevent the loss of pres-
tige at home and abroad.
A document containing the de-j
partment's instructions on how to
indicted on four 2. He also lied when he testified
irising from the that from l!>45 to July, 1949, he
did not negotiate any government
; matters for private businessmen
land did not receive any money for
i such work.
3. He lied about his business
connection when he took employ-
ment in the State Department on a
mission to Greece. Maragon con-
tended he was not employed by
anyone else at the time and had
left the employment of Albert
Verley & Co., Chicago perfumers.
4. He lied when he testified be-
fore the Senate subcommittee that
about three months prior July 28,
1949, he borrowed $5,000 from his
mother-in law.
The indictment said that at the
time Maragon allegedly lied before
the subcommittee it was comp-
etently in session and that all testi-
mony was under oath.
Congress.0pens Session
Aimed At Tax Structure
I
Million Dollars May Drastic Moves
Be Housing Unit Cost|*sk®J.To5t°P.
Spending Trend
Revival Service
Draws Many To
Local Church
Rev. R. B. Crimm, the cowboy
evangelist from East Texas, last
erase the "false impressions" of | night continued his revival servi-
those pro-Nationalists interested ces at the Rose Avenue Baptist
in a "Save Formosa" drive has Church, which opened Sundav
been circulated here, it can be dis- njjfht, with a plea for people to Junior Chamber
closed today. get into God's plan of work in-! yesterday noon.
The document was prepared by stead of plans of their own. This means. Ward added, that
the State Department s Public Af- The services opened Sunday the local administrative body soon
A green light on preliminary
plans for government backed hous-
ing units may be expected in Brec-
kenridge shortly, Fred Ward, man-
ager of the Breckenridge Chamber
>f Commerce, told members of the
of Commerce
Cage Ploy Opens
Here Tomorrow
Basketball play will open here
fomorow night in a
Eastland, the
Pi
fairs Area Policy Advisory Staff,
and was dated Dec. 2.'!. The word
was sent to members of the de-
partment and of some other gov-
ernment offices.
The document said there are
"pro-Nationalists (principally in
the United States) w!io consider
Formosa a redoubt in which the
government could survive and who
tend to create an impression that
the U. S. is delinquent if it fails
to 'Save Formosa.' "
It said there are groups in the
United States "who are inclined
to be critical of the U. S. for fail-
ure to act to prevent the loss of
night before an overflowing house
and the church has been comfor-
tably filled since the opening
night.
The evangelist, an individaui
type of preacher, preached last
night on tarrying until the Holy
Spirit comes. He used the account
of the disciples tarrying in Jei -
sualem awaiting the power of the
Holy Spirit, to bring out that
preaching and other wprk without
the holy spirit is of little use.
After the disciples, waited ten
days for the power tney held the
greatest revival ever held, the
minister said, and we today should
wait for it. This part of the Scr
rill receive the plans signed by
the island to the Communists.
This is "largely because of a mis- tuY.e teIj8 what we should preach,
game with I taken popular conception of its he added-repentance and the re
asthma, th«> main to be; strategic importance to U. S. de- mission of sins
ay ed at 7:30 o'clock, preceded by fense in the Pacific," the docu
.•> „ .
RAIN-CATCHER - Tuned to
New York's water shortage is
thi?- hat of p..pei cups and plates
worn by Mi:: Water Conser-
vation of >0 " Miss W. C. in
real life is BiUy Bridgers and
her tipsy topner was designed
tor an "a!!-p.'.per" luncheon
where new water-saving dishes
were introduced.
Bitter Weather
Moves In After
Holiday Deaths
a game of the B squads at 6:30
o'clock.
Conference play will open with
Weatherford there on next Tues-
day night, a double round robin to
hi- played with the teams of this
district, the same teams that com-
prised the football district. Con-
Cod has a plan for spreading
ment added. j the gospel and we should f
"The loss of the island is widely ^hat, he concluded,
anticipated, and the manner in
which civil and military"conditions
there have deteriorated under the
Nationalists adds weight to the
expectation," it said. *
The fall of Formosa, it contin-
f" re nee play will end on Feb. 10. i uedi would threaten a loss of pres-
Members of the Breckenridge A j tige by the U. S. at home and
S'{'.lad include Troy Allen, David abroad "to the extent that we
Buchanan, I/eo Draper, O. A. I have become committed in th>-
Ramsey, James Smith, Jack Gun-: public mind to hold it."
lock. Franklin Earney, Wilson ,,
Thompson, Doyle Weatherby, Jim-
my Ener and Johnny Jones.
Three Wedding
i
Red Leader Given
Bail At Houston
HOUSTON, Tex.. Jan. <U.R —
Texas Communist party secretary-
James J. Green today had side-
stepped commitment to jail for ne-
There has been one addition to
the church since the revival
! started and during the services
many hands have been raised ask-
ing for prayer.
The services begin each evening
at 7:;!0 o'clock, the evangelist to-
night t-> continue his message of
"tarrying".
Special music has featured each
j of the meetings, led hy Mr. and
Mrs. L. C. Messer. Last night Mr.
Messcr sang "My Sins are Gone."
1 accompanied by Mrs. Messer at
the piano.
Man AndWife To
Be Monk And Nun
sued from the county clerk's office commitment to jail for ae- | SAN F RAM ISCO, Jan. .! l .1
for the last week of the old year, fy'?K :l ftderal c"u'1t ; "• tofer'* ^-.vear-otd
bringing to 4 the number of li- Green Wits put under SI,IKK) bond businessman and state employ
censes issued during 1SM9. !«" *« ,the t • S. circuit court of will leavo
CHlf'A<;o. .Ian :t 'U.S —cold Licenses were issued to Ben appeals at New Orleans reviews the end of the end of the week to
wave rwgan moving . ..stward to- Kurkendall and Mrs. Jamie Will-1h jail sentence handed Green by becomejx Benedictine Monk
day, routing the unseasonably I iams. Kenneth King Eubanks. and Federal Judge T. M. Kennerly on H,s " '[• r* >«*•♦'*• ¥« >• >uil
mild weather covering th" east as Miss (*ordelRuth Wells, Benioie a civil contempt charge.
the nation counted almost 4110 Procter and Mian Joyce Hash. Morris Pogdaiiow Houston at
d>'ad over the \ew Year's week- ——: "—i torney defending Green, revealed
will issue bonds which banks will
purchase, jfiui probably- about 1011
housing units erecti-d here at a cost
of about a million dollars. These
houses will be rented to families in
the lowei income brackets.
The bonds will hear one and sev-
en-eights percent interest" over a
period of 27 years ami when retired
I the housing units will become the
I property of the city, or the local
l adm i nist rat it ion-, for continued ope
; rations. Retirement of the bonds
j may mean even lower rents to the
I tenants.
The local committee is composed
j of Albert Sweeney. Chairman, Bob
j Chapman. Harris Veale, R. D.
1 Smith and Mac Machen.
| The rent to be ch: rged at first
; is to be one fifth of the salary the
I man is making. Ward said.
) This project will be locally eon-
I trolled, the gov riiment having no
j part in the transactions except to
i approve plans of the loeal adminis-
tration and guarantee the paper,
j Ward i-splaincd in answer to ijties-
. tiollS.
j Tin- units tn be constructed here
i will eitlu r be single houses or du-
I p'ex buildings in a landscaped area
I with watei. sewer and other con-
veniences.
The entire project will be non-
profit. the objictive being to raise
| the standard of living, do away
; with slums in some instances, un-
der an entirely new law on hous-
! ing projects.
Breckenridge will operate under
.. clauses which will permit the
Ann i n an so:.men. claiming to rep- j he ^reeled where ever the
resent a majority of the 4:? crew, st.rs fit
iiieiiibers aboard the Isbrandtsen , Xlie meeting was presided over
ship jlyuig Arrow, cabied a protest | by Bill Henry who took office as
to wasiitngt n for protection a-jtVi,' new president « f th « Jaycees
gainst being forced to run thelanij ^ h - program was in ch rage
Nationalist mine-blockade « f Red-jof Walter Blake Johnson. Jr.
nelrt Shanghai by Captain David j ,,
the President and a S70,IMK> loan
with which to do the preliminary l{y LYL£ WILSON
li, i i United Press Staff Correspondent
Ward said tne loeal committee
111.-
i'!!KW OBJECTED
Ten !,
.1.
bo
of Chicago. State De
WASHINGTON, Jan. <uv
The second session of the Demo-
cratic 8lst congress opo'iied todaj
with skirmishing on tne hot elec-
tion-year issues of taxes and
spending.
Opposing house leaders in Sen
ate news conferences tangled on
these two subjects which are most
likely to be the top issues during
session and in the November con-
gressional elections.
Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas,
said Congress will aim this session
at a "one package" revision of the
entire federal tax structure. He
suggested that the demorcratic
leadership Had rejected any separ-
ate revision of excise taxes . .
something the republicans demand
as a spur to business.
House Republican leader Joseph
W. Martin, Jr., sounded the key-
note of what promises to be the
OOP battlecry of the year.... re-
duced federal spending. He an-
nounced he is appointing a special
Republican "Price Tag" committee
t keep close tabs on all federal
spending proposals And he pre-
pared to press the democrats to
tut tne excise taxes.
Opeuiug-oiay ceremonies were in
th* traditional pattern—routine
convocation of both houses, pray-
er, swearing in of new members
and huddles on strategy. Members
returned to newly - refurnished
quarters. Otherwise the routine
was unchanged.
Tomorrow at noon CST, Presi-
den Truman will start the real
business by delivering his annual
mo-ssage on the state of the union.
Newly wed Alben W. Barkley
gavel led the Senate to order while
his bride of less than two months
watched proudly from the visitors
gallery. The Rev. Dr. Frederick
Brown Haris, Senate Chaplain,
read the opening prayer and re-
i minded the Senators that the "An-
paitment issued three warnings ' PoliCemOII RoUted
wife and home at Captain Jones that Shanghai wat i
urs had been mined.
he posted the bond for his client
iMt Friday. • F oster .said.
Veteran Buried
.V.' ritcd PWp.- tftbuhltioii f:loim TnriAUt
11 P-m. Frifluy to midnight' felt Jjf | ,L Green, H tall 'dlhH w'ith a "i'rev\-"
ilight .«hn-.c«-i| that W.) persons I Bv uNitCP' F*iVRSsI$|i'- T1' haircut, was he'd in contempt Dec.
died in accidents. They included Stocks lower in moderate trad- 24 by Jongo-Kenn i ly for reft;.-
•Jlo killed in traffic. 47 ir. fin s, II ,Sng. ing to testify in deportation pro-
m airplane crushes and t«K in Bonds irregularly lower. ceedings against an alien couple, o\\ years Thev were
other types of accidents. j U. S. Government bonds firm in Kurt and .Steffa R-gina Witten- J.|,J their daughter
remain behind to' settle their
worldly affairs. Then she hopes to
enter a convent.
We are as one in this decision,"
We have prayed '_'n
years fi>r this to come to puss.
Now God' h.-is brotfglit it; afwwiti
Foster said he and his wifi
tallfc'rf Jtbnut th* spiritual joys of
ri'ligioiw si'i lusioft' for more than
gratified
w. Marjorie
"°rIT. Jean, entered the presentation or-
Judge Kenerly, however, ruled ,ier and became a nun. She is
that Green s jail sentence was not teaching in a parochifil school
lower.
set.
paring has not been Contemplative, Sister Danie
Marie, in New York in
Panhandle Crimped By Severe
Norther; 10 to 25 Drop Here
HOI STON. Tex. Jan. rt. tU.PV-
Mti'cd taps will resound over An- The number of dead in traffic i quiet trading.
tioch fVmetery at l^>vel dy, Tex., was far below the .'KM> predicted Curb stocks irregularly lower.
to mo row- for T B. Iden. Harris by th.- National Safety Council. Midwest stocks irregular.
County's last veteran of the Civil Experts said that fog, rain and Silver unchanged in New York to begin until after the ye; r-end here"
W;,r- snow discouraged driving and t 7:?cents a fine ounce. nolidiiys. Foster's
The Old soldier died here yester- helped prevent highway crashes. Grains in Chicago: wheat, corn, Bogdanow said the date for the with' them, became a
day at the home of a daughter. A bitter cold wave moved into oatp_ rP>. and ^.y bean futures New Orleans hearing has not been Contemplative, Sister
where h" had moved five years Kansas and lovva today and began
ago from Lovelaoly. He was 102. pushing eastward slowly. It -ho\ -
Iden joined the Confederate ed aside layers of warm air which
Army n the age of IK. He liked have causod a record-breaking
to talk about his war experiences.1 winter warm spell over much of
and about th" early frontier days the area east of the Mississippi.
in and around bis native Hunts- The total of dead in the New
ville. Year's holiday accidents compared
Relatives remembered "Young favorably with the Christmas toll,
Tom" speaking vividly of the bat- when Jill were killed, including
tie of Sabine in September of 420 dead in traffic, and was about
when a handful of Dick Dowling's half of the all-time high of 804
men thwarted a combined land-sea killed ("20 in traffic) over the ————■
attack by union forces. three day holiday last July 4. ' ">' UNITED PRESS) | to 25 elsewhere in West Texas, ex- drizzle accompanying the front but
Even in the final months of his Texas led t.he nation with The season'# most severe cold cept 25 to ;io in the Del Rio-Eagle no snow, according to early re-
life, as sight and hearing failed, deaths from all types of accidents, wave hit the Texas Panhandle to- pass area. ports.
the veteran was always interested Its toll of _!l killed in auto crashes day and within two hours dumped | For Fast Texas, the forecast Freezing rain last year in Jan
in the trend of th«' times. He also was the nation's high. The temperatures at DaTrwort from 50 - indicated lows of 10 to 2o in the | uary brought one of the state's
spoke of the strides in progress lytne Star State had led in degrees at a. m. to 17 degrees northwest portion and failing to worst ice storms in many ye..rs
being made by Houston and all of Christmas deaths a week ago with at HatO a. m. j 18 to HO in the West Central por- with damage running into millions
Texas, and contrasted them to the 75. The norther bore down on Ama-: tion and Lower Red River Valley, of dollars.
misery of southern reconstruction New York was serond in the r illo where a aalmy 56 was report- A low of 10 to 15 for the Dallas- Cloudy skies were the rule this
after the Civil War. grim race with deaths, includ- ed ;*t HetO a. m. It started through Fort Worth area was expected bv morning, and mercury readings
When "Young Tom began to ing It in traffic. tj,at area at :45 a. m. The cold tomorrow night ------ - — .
slip slowly away several days ago. < alifornia, «huh usually leads wave was expected to reach all of Originally there were twin co'd
his children grandchildren and in traffic de oths. had only .TO from Texas by late Wednesday night, fronts in the Panhandle early to-
great-grandchildren from all over all causes of which 14 occurred on The Dallas Weather Bureau issu- day, on- from the west and one
Texas began to gather here. highways Aggi.-ss.ve police en- ,.d „ warnring to Texas stockmen from the north. The front from the
Survivors mclude two daughters, forcem.-nt of traffic and alcohol to protect livestock as freezing north was the whistling teeth-
Mrs. W. W. Sheppard of Houston laws was believed to have helped V " . . . *"iik
and Mrs. J. A. Stanley of Cr.K-k- reduce the toll. .nld IZZ accompanying chatenng type wh.cn. soon absorb-
ett, one son, H. A. Iden of Hous- Michigan was fourth with li> . « ' . , wvT crM?' '>rrPZ<' 'rnm t'le West. ,
18 grandchildren and 2.'51 deaths. i:t of them in traffic, and ! J , * .T n u j Z\ .thr o'"" frnnt rorred ; ada was given by midnight read-
Illinois fifth with l<> in traffic predicted for the Panhandle and 10 j through Amarillo at 9:45 a. m.t it] ings at Wichita, Kan., where it_was
1— i i was accompanied by 20 miles per , 2fi after the front hit, and at Tu1-
| hour winds. There was some light I sa. Okla.. where it was before
line fresh cold wave landed its
i blow.
t N F.A Telephoto)
>lew Area Power
Lines Manager
"rlsraed By TESC
Pro ..Otion of W. L. White to
div s.on eiigitHntr of the Eastland s lid Williams stepped from the
Transmission Division has been ; shadows and stti-k a gun in his
announced by the Texas Electric j back as the officer walked his
sister, Edna, who* lited -~e; vice Company. He will replace; beat near the St. Louis riverfront.
Maryknoil , i. V\. MeAnally, who has been | Pepmilli r surrendered his billfold.
xious eyes of all the earth are
upon this capitol."
Rayburn, a bachelor, presided in
I (OA D..A Pnlllinr IHouse and :::!H of the current
[ WT DUT HOUBer j foster of 4:12 House members ans-
j Killed by Buddies ' WTwo 'hours' bVr'oi" congress con-
vened, President Truman called in
| ST. I Ol'lS,.Ian. •'!. 'l.l!'—A dar- his legislative "big four". . Bark-
j ing Negro bandit robbed a uni- ley, Rayburn. Senate Majority
! formed policeman of #20 early to-j:Leader Scott W. Lucas and House
• day. and was slain' a few minutes j Majority Leader John W. McCiy-
mack. . . .and gave them a previA.
of the program he will read to a
joint, session tomorrow.
After this Inid.l'e Rayburn told
reporters about the one-package
tax plan, which may not be pre-
sented until late in the spring. He
indicated that Mr. Truman agreed.
Continued On I'age 2
Refugee Will Go
hy a .svv;irm of fellow «>ffi-
who lusht il to tin* scrnt'.
Th«* roi)hrr was iiicntifieil as
Ciaivnce Williams, 22 - yrar-old
NV'ffro who hat! a previous police
rocorii.
f *;* t r- i 111; m Mttward I'^pmilU-r
transferred to Odessa to direct! which contained #20. and his set
operations of the newly formed vice revolver to the Negro who1 Tm HaUC^OII FflP
transmission division there. I fled after emptying the gun and JS-"- ■ *'CT,®,W,, ■ vl
White is a graduate of ArUng- [ flinging it into, a vacant lot.
1 o
ton H< ights High School of Fort
A block away. Williams accost-
ed another policeman, Patrolman
John Keek. Beck was unaware of
what had happened to Pepmiller,
but he ordered Williams to stop
for questioning.
Tlje Negro, Keek said, whirled
ton,
great-grandchildren.
STMfl CERTEt FORMING WIU
(UK $ STATES THE WORKS
KANSAS CITY. Mo., Jan. 3 iU.P:
—Blizzard conditions over most of
N*br«*k and western and north-
central Kansas are expected to set
in today, t«a tght and Wednesday,
the weather bureau here said to-
day.
"A storm center has developed
over southeastern Colorado that
promises In five the Kansas-
Missoori - OWahoma area the
works in the next day or two," a
weather bureau spokesman said.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
post here started the new year off
j with a hang, now boasting of over
~T. „ , ., I 100 per cent membership at the
tr ll "j ., 'Itermonie-; beginning of the year, a feat usu-
*cr will drop to about five above ; _n„ ■■ l , .
n northwestern Kansas and to 10 ^ „
a hove in southeastern Kansas. ay ear. The post nowhas a total of
. ... . , 250 members, about eight times
Oklahoma will have zero read the charter membership of three-
ings ,ri the Panhandle tonight or year-old post.
eariy Wednesday morning. , Numb<.re«f among its achieve-
The cold air will move across ments is the VFW home here which
Oklahoma today and tonight, with is a little over a year old. The
rain changing to light snow as members starting out with indebt-
the cold air moves on.
edness of $18,000 on this invest-
Early today, the storm renter ment, in little over a year, have cut
Considerable snow, four inches! had caused temperatures to drop the debt down to about 12,000.
- 1 to IR below at Rapid City, S. D., | The P°st here was organized in
or bettofr, with a lot of drifting
was forecast for Kansas and cen
tral Nebraska, with northerly
winds larigtng up to ."To mil« pei
■ ho.itr or « ror.ger Temperature*
will tall to 10-1& aeli.w zei
ft ?♦ T, >-!■ ill
it !0 ahc h. A.-.i
with visibility at one-fourth mile 1#4# with 90 charter members,
and snow and blowing snow, winds] I'ost Commander at that time was
about .12 miles pei hour. At j A. K, Pipkin, mrw of Monahans.
Scottsblutf, Net., in tit . sit ntr The Veterans «re looking toiwara
III j W«-st I li |r l lion
I v- ni| er«t ti i' .
V / t " jt a .a..
Illinois Miners
Go Out On Strike
W orth' and of Texas A&M Col
leg*. He received a bachelor of
science degree in mechanical en-
gineering from A&M in 194:?.
After graduation from college.
White served :!3 months in the'
army as a combat engineer. He j and fired two quick shots at him
held the rank of first lieutenant before escaping under a hail of
when discharged in 1945. ! bullets from Beck's gun.
White began work for Texas' But less than 10 minutes later,
Electric Serv,..- Company in De- . five more policemen called to the
cember of this year in Ft. Worth. ] scene in squad cars found Will-
In 1 !>4S, he was transferred to Big! iams cringing behind a pile of
Spring where he served until mov-1 steel sash in a junkyard.
ing to Eastland in October, 1949. | Detective Sgt. Lyman Davis
White will be in charge of oper-1 said Williams advanced with his
ations affecting all of the high 1 gun in shooting position when the
voltage lines and substations of jjolicemen called for him to sur-
the electric company in a five- render. Davis said he and Detec-
were in the 50's and KO's. The low county area, including Eastland. 1 tive Erne.it Paluczak fired seven
est reading at 5:30 a. m. was at | Stephens, Young, Comanche and shoth at Williams, killing him in-
Wink, a cool 4f>. It was 71 at j Brown counties. stantly.
that hour in Brownsville. Alice and I — ~~~
VW,.,; 70 54 . Lu6- .QMIM, AU Qj
An indication of the intensity of g bll Dill IVwUkV VII vLH I L
the cold front moving on from Can-
AS CONGRESS MEETS TODAY
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WASHINGTON, Jan. -t [for extension rf rent controls be-
I Here are the 10 big issues that vond present June 30 expiration
i confront the new session of Cong- date.
I
l rp?f: r . [ Foreign policy—Much debate
\ taxes—Little chance that t ong , likelv on administration policy in
ress. especially in an election year, tChjn!l. Xew strains expected on bi-
i willi approve any tax increases. It: partis:i n foreign policy. Some kind
probably will vote to cut excise „f leKjs|;rtion likely to carry out
-Chances are slim that
SPRINGFIELD, III., Jan. 'IT { Tornado Strikes
—A large group of United Mine mm •
Workers went on strike in Illinois ! MlSSOliri Ar6CI
today, with John L. I,ewis himself taxes.
on hand j ST. LOUIS, Jan. 3 <UJR—A small j Spending
j tomrcio struck two towns about 15 • Conprrrss will cut spending enough
■ I??i r ll rwport* f'T other north nf St.. Louis shortly be- j to balance the bodget. Substantial
;^ ^Ty h'l tT'n" fore noon today, causing consider 1 reductions are likely in foreign
^ propertyJamage. There were aid and defense.
second two-day work week in sue- n<> caa^ltieR. Social welfare-Senate certain
TTie storm hit the little commun- to pass a house-approved bill to
ity of Spanish Lake, Mo., first and
cession.
The bulk of the fi,000 miners in
the Springfield-Taylorville area
showed up at the six Peabody
Coal Co. Mines, then poured the
water from their lunch pails in
the traditional strike signal and
returned to their homes.
The Peabody Mines employ most
of the United Mine Workers in
this area.
liberalize old-age insurance pro-
then skipped over the Mississippi gram. Much talk but no action ex-
River to strike at Hartford. III. ; pertod on administration's compul-
The Sheriffs office said damage! sory health insurance plan. Un-
whs heavy in Spanish Lake but; certain prospects on aid to educa-
that deputies had reported no in-1 tion
juries. j Civil Rights — Administration
The Illinois Highway Patrol said leaders intend to press for pas-
t.wo houses at Hartfoiil were de* sage of fair employment prr^tkes ;restrict!'ns on rdmission of DP's. traveling
present Truman's point four pro-
gram to aid backward areas of
non Communist world.
I.abor—Administration again ex-
pected to ask for repeal of Taft
Hartley law. but no serious repeal
effort in prospect.
Farm Much talis but no action
on Brannan plan. Chartces good for
legislation providing -some revision
of present cotton acreage quota
system.
Displaced persons—Fair chance
of Senate passage of house-ap-
Loboratory Work
Di. Ivan Roubal, his wite Marie,
and son, Ivan, refugees who re-
cently moved to Stephens county
to work on the Walker Sayle ranch
near Ivan, will leave Thursday for
Houston where Dr. Roubal will be
employed as a laboratory techni-
cian at the Methodist Hospital
there.
Although he hates to leave hi*
friends, the Sayles. who have been
so kind to the displaced fr.inily.
Dr. Roubal is happy at the oppor
tunity of working again with th*-
profession he loves. He plans to
go to school while there, he state.',
both to learn English and to study
medicine. Dr. Roubal's speciality
is gynecology, or the study of wo-
men's diseases.
The opportunity to work in the
Methodist hospital came through
Dr. Kenneth Pope, pr.stor of tlv
largest Methodist church in th'-
world at Houston, who originall;
sponsored their coming to America
and to work on the ranc'n of Wal-
ker Sayle, Dr. Pope's fathcr-in-
law.
The family arrived here Novem-
ber 17. and migrated to America
through the International Refugee
Organization, a. United Nations
project. Dr. Roubal was a citizen of
old Czarist Russia, and Mrs. Rou-
bal is Czechoslovakian. The family
livid for four years in a DP camp
near Munich, Germany.
Reno Twins Win In
1950 Boby Race
RENO. Jan. 3 iU.fi' Jeanne and
Eleanor Fulstone of Smith. New,
today were the nation's outstanding
twins, and you can bet they've
both got toni's.
The twins were the winners in
a contest sponsored hy t ne p. rm
anent wave concern. Moro than
2,000 sets of twins competed.
The winners get a trip to Europe,
proved administration bill to ease fur cortfe luggage and complete
'lin^KoMH*.
I h. i.-ioaumei ar- u,|ili.yes «i , troyeit ann .fruit half a rtoien itani- bill. House passage expected over Oleo—Hcu.ie approved bill to re-' In second pfeee
un- -.t. ce. r.i,e t., h nighly miccestul year, with , a tew small .iiims. some of wnieh .i*i u. 1 he patrol said no one was Soutuei n po'tsts r.iioufter |iiOL | i-al te.ler.il tax* * on ideomMRPirfne Jan
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