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PUBLISHED SIX DAYS
A WEEK FEATURING
LOCAL NEWS
Breckenridge American
UNITED PRESS Wire Scrricc
ftrvntcd to the Dissemination of Information and Upbuilding of Stephens County
NEA Feature Service
WEATHER
Occasional rain and Horn* freezing
rain, spreading into the South
Plain* tonight. Continued cold. Fri-
day partly cloudy and not quite
so cold.
•vol. at no.
BRECKENRIDGE. TEXA>
-THl'RSDAY, JAN. 5, 1950
PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPY
Jadgng of Grass OOLBEST WEATHER IS OVER
Traiame lader BUT FREEZING HAIR WHIMS
Way For Betting RORTH MY ERRARGER ROADS
11:> i'nitki) i'i:i;ss)
The Mason's worst cold wave,
paring: the lush lower Rio Grande
W. fc. Henry, Suit Conservation
Service work uml conservationist,
and Jim Wilkeraon,
vocational uc
riculture instructor, an working I Y'alley a
with members of th. Future,-^-;-
Farmers of America chapter here, Z """
training the boys for a district SpAtOn 1^ A WA\/^
grass judging contest to be h- !d j AIWay5
at the Albany Courthouse 10 a.m., f*L-0 J A_ I , J;„.
January 19. Approximately !M))V^I056Q V^iI LuQIcS
boys from Shackelford, Callahan
and Stephens counties will parti-
cipate In the contest.
The forty members of the chap-
ter here are being trained to iden-
tify grasses. In the contest they
must be able to identify fifty
grasses by name, and tell whether
they are annual or perrennial
grass***, warm or cool season
grasses!, native or invading plants,
and the grazing value of each, all
in 45 seconds. A district team
will be picked at the Contest to re-
present the Lower Clear Fork of
the Brazoa Soil Conservation dis-
trict at the Fat Stock Show in
Fort Worth.
Medals will be awarded to the
three bora at the district show
having the highest scores, and,
banners will be presented to the'
three top teams entered in the i
district show. A team composed of ;
the four boys with the highest!
score will be picked from each
place, and their scores averaged;
together for their team score.
Some ten or fifteen boy* will
be selected to represent Stephens i
county at the district show j
through competition b e t w e e n
members of the FFA chaptei here.
punch today. But it was still a
trouble-maker.
Airport Building
Work Will Start
Monday. Report
.Work on the $19,974 Administra-
tion Building atk the newly impro-
Bitter Cold Wave Takes
Death Toll In Midwfst
Kvcn as its frigid 48-hour rush ved airport here is scheduled to
feared freeze, iost its across Texas came to a halt, it begin Monday, Leon Stanley, con-
Clad In Slacks
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 'U.R
—It's always closed se?son on
the posteriors of slacks-clad
women. Municipal Judge Wil-
liam M. Byrne ruled as he
meted out stern justice to two
young hunters.
Judge Byrne yesterday sen-
tenced Robert Ross and Theo-
dore Gustaveson, both 20. to
a \vek< nd in jail, plus $25 fines
and a year's probation.
They admitted that on two
nights they took pot shots
with air rifles at the retreat-
ing curves of feminie strollers
on Hollywood Blvd.
promised to make more trouble
for the vast area already troubled
by a treacherous ice-sleet coat.
C. S. Weather Forecasters said
the front was stationary and
j warm air from the gulf of Mexi-
, co overrode the cold air mass.
) The result was precipitation.
Freezing drizzle commenced in
! the area from Junction south to
the Gulf and eastward to the Lou-
I isiana border, and was to spread
j northward during the day.
Thus arose the prospect of a
i multiplication of the hazardous
; road condition that has slowed..
but not stalled, .traffic in many
I sections of the state since yester-
; day.
Wednesday night temperatures
' failed to dip as low as expected
; and that was about the only bit
of good weather news for most
Texans. A benevolent cover of
j clouds kept freezing temperatures
from sneaking into the lower val-
ley's rich citrus groves and truck-
: crop areas, where they would have
I done the greatest harm.
Tin- process of warming up was
i expected to be slow, for there was
no pressure system in sight to
pull the frigid air cover from over
1 the state. Generally, temperatures
| for Friday were expected to be
i only a few degrees higher than
today.
This morning's low was five a-
bove zero at Dalhart. Amarillo re-
ported six above.
Other overnight lows included
i 12 at Lubbock, 13 at Sherman, 13
j at Wichita Falls, 17 at Abilene,
; 18 at Big Spring, Mineral Wells
and Fort Worth, 21 at Dallas and
I San Angelo, 23 at Waco, 25 at
TOI'KKA, Kalis., Jan. •> 'tin nie.cinent weathyr. Bryan, 27 at Texarkana, 32 at
Army Sgt. John Anderson >>( Ft. The "cow boy " pre; « her discussed j San Antonio, 34 at Houston, and
Riley, Kuna., was under guard at at length, "What Is a Revival ?" j ;•; a(. Brownsvile.
a hospital here today as officers! He said. "Revivals can not be work- The vacation isle spot, Galves-
waited to question him about the j ed up; revivals are prayed down.! ton, got off easy in its brush w ith
<|f*ath f tli«' girl hi- dated hist A revival is not a visitation cam-j the cold wave. The low thrrr was
night and the pistol-whipping of paign, nor is it a decision day 42, du«' to th#* front's running out.
an agffl man who Ut'fri«'nd<*d him. in Sunday S *!vm I. A revival is not \ of *4g*'iS" it moved nearer to the
Anderson wan shot five times I simply a church joining, f still be-j < ulf of Mexico.
whr'i H * attempted to knife one o jji-ve in a ngeneratetl church mem-! Skies were clear in the western
two officer* who seized him last j h rship. I believe regeneration and! extremities from Dalhart to El
SolcBer Quizzed
On Girl's Death
Weather Fails
To Slow Church
Revival Meeting
The revival services at the Rose
Avenue Baptist Church, led by
Evangelist I!. I!. Crimm and party,
are continuing throughout the
) week, each night beginning at 7
p. m. Inter', st is good in spite of
inclement weather.
tractor told commissioners. Mean
while work on the $234,01)0 Steph-
ens County Hospital has halted
temporarily due to the present
Norther which blew in Tuesday
night. Completing the picture oT
new construction in Breckenridge,
final approval and signature of
President Truman is expected
shortly on the 200 low-rent hous-
ing units applied for here under
the new Public Housing Act.
Contract on the new Adminis-
tration building calls for 90 work-
ing days. The building a one-story
frame of Austin ^tone and steel,
will be located about 400 feet
from the west boundary of the
airport, and immediately behind
the warm-up ramport.
It will contain a waitipg room,
central heating plant, managers
office, and two rest rooms. A ro-
tating beacon will be placed on the
top of the building 32 X 51 feet,
and will contain 1,650 square feet,
Stanley said.
Completion of the county hospi-
tal is expected in six or eight
months, depending on the weath-
er, Jack Lowrie, superintendent of
the Balfanz Construction Com-
pany of Abilene, reported recent-
ly. When completed the hospital
will be equipped with modern fa-
cilities and equipment, and will
have 22 beds. County residents
voted bonds in the amount of
$120,000 for the project, which'
combined with federal aid, brings
the total amount up to a little
more than $234,000.
she worked.
Paso, but the rest of Texas was
cloudy. East Texas was in line for
rain, freezing rain or sleet. Clouds
Here expected to push back over
the plains country by tonight,
bringing a drizzle.
Two deaths were attributed in-
directly to the weather within the
past 24 hours. At Wichita Falls,
night. Mia condition wok not ser-' r',.[ion are two different
, . ,,, , : tilings. If one has Ix-en truly born
(• !, "[ again, reformation <v,H follow. The
frank said he would <l' st.on ,.,„m.h„s fin,„, wlth
And'-rsoii amc«*n ing tlu death « f
Irrnr GiTbrrt. 3$, found dead on u, T' i # #i r i, n
Side street. She had bee,, stabbed r-might, the Evanp-list will
wxeral times and run over Mui"=,n K1'"
peatedty by an automobile. [' '"* I hat ^ Enter Into a Success-
Anderson admitted that he knew f"!. ,"'viv;il' I" th's sermon he will XMon W. Kelley, 45, died when
Miss (filbert ami had taken her to th'' t T' "f h's eonversmn. He | firf. lk.stroyed hfs Uvo-nK,n, house
a tavern for an evennig of drink- r*|n fr," home at the -'ge. (,ar)y t,H|ay At Angleton, a wo-
ing but said he "blacked out":'" tn""teen and h, came a cow man w;w killed yesterday when
while taking her home. She was1 puncher. His mother, wno hadn t K,p,. automobile skidded into a
found near a basket factory where seen him for five years, prayed parked truck during a rainstorm.
him home, and it was at this time j Thl. |„wpr valley had been
that exl saved him. On Friday j warned to brace for several hours
night, he will tell how he was j „f sub-freezing weather during
called to the ministry and how, the early morning hours, with a
he entered school in preparation low of La or 30. The alarm was a
for his lifi's work. false * one. McAlIen's minimum
The musical program, featured during the night was 40, and with
in each service, has been an in daybreak the mercury started to
spiration to all who have attended, i climb. Mission reported a 48 at
The Youth Choirs are meeting each 7:30 a.m.
evening at <i:30 umh r the direction
of Prof, and Mrs. L. 'Messer.
Everyone is invited.
Wage Scale Hiked
AL8TLN, Tex.. Jan. 5 U.R
Minimum wages on State Highway
construction projects will be hiked
from 1.1 to 75 cent* an hour after
Jan. II, the State Highway Com-
mission nnnounnd today.
Annonari mi-nt of the m « aehed-
ule followe<l by less than 24 hours
a protest by the Texas State Fed-
eration of I^ibor that the Highway
Department was paying sub-stand-
ard wages on its construction pro-
j< cts.
Dewitt C. Greer, State Highway
engim'er. said the new schedule
was ad< ptifl Dec. 29, prior to the
labor protest. However, the new
rates were first made public today.
The atatewide labor organization
had cited an El Paso project, to
be opened for bidding next week,
on which w
from 45 cents
Double Victory
In Cage Games
It was a double victory for the
Breckenridge A and B basketball
teams when they played the East-
land High School A and B teams
last night. The Breckenridge A
tefcm won a smashing 50-12 vic-
tory over the Eastland cagers laat
night, and B team scored a 32-26
defeat over the opposing squad.
At the luiir of the B game, it
looked like a Hose fight with East-
land ahead 18-14 over the Breck-
enridge cagers. The local crew lame
back with what it takes in the sec-
ond half to win over the Eastland
B's. Ronald Robbins was high point,
man for the Breckenridge B squad
with II points to nis honor, with
Bobbie Drake Keith, second with
7 points. High point man for the
Eastland B cagers was Reed, who
plso scored 11 points.
Score at the half of the A game
was 26-3 in favor of the Breck
Release Of Birds
Frozen On Lake
Bank Under Way
Flood* Drive 60
Families From
Illinois Homes
CHICAGO, Jan. .j —Bitterlv
cold weather took a rising toll of
dead in the midwest and west to-
day, while wintertime floods drove
scores of families- from their
homes iii Illinois and Indiana.
The debth toll from the current
spell of wintry weather rose to 1 I
early today. Six deaths were attri-
buted to traffic accidents on ic;.
highways, four to fires or explo-
sions resulting from overheated
stoves, and three to sleighing mi.-
haps. One boy drowned when he
fell through thin ice.
The cold front, moving east-
ward slowly, made a delayed a.--
aault on" the Atlantic seaboard.
The East's January lilactimc wa..
being repluced by more seasonable
snow flurries and skidding tem-
peratures.
Anew storm from the gulf of
Alaska was expected to sweep in
oh the State of Washington, rid-
ing on gales of 60 miles per hour.
Weather forccastersers said the
storm would bring snow and rain
but no repetition of the blizzard
which struck the Puget Sound
area earlier this week.
Fed by heavy and prolonged
rains earlier this week, rivers and
a - , . | . ., , . . ., i streams in central and southern
ile ferf tneni grain^ and freed tour j vjction on the perjury counts could carry as much as 40 years in jail | m;nojs a,,,) Indiana were on the
J3?. ^1"*ihc. ° ,as a penalty (Exclusive NEA Telephoto) ! rampage, duplicating the floods of
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 5 tU.fi
—Game Rangers hoped to rescue
100 or more red-winged blackbirds '
imprisoned in ice on the South
bank of Lake Overholser today.
The birds have been frozen on
the bank of the lake which sup-
plies Oklahoma City with water
since Tuesday night. Ranger Red
N. Smith believed. However, their
plight was not discovered until
irte yesterday.
Smith theorized the feathered
creatures had lighted on the bank. .
west of the dam, to feed on grass
or weed seed when hign wind.-
pushed water from the municipal
lake onto the banks. The water
froze around the birds before they
could escape.
Ice two feet or more high was
reported on t'ne biyik by the game j
R; ngei, who said in some instances
only the bills and eyes of the small
prisoners could be seen. In other
cases, only three or four feathers
stuck in the ice were keeping the JOHN MARAGON INDICTED—John Maragon, who has been indictcd
birds from freedom. j ()n f,,ur counts of perjury, receives the press at his home in McLean,
Some of the trapped birds {ja%ejyj j j with his wife. T'ne one-time Kansas Citv bootblack who be-
frozen to death and some have * ' , . ' , . , , , • . .
been eaten by cats, but Smith esti- • came a White House intimate, is accused ol lying to a Senate subcom-
mand 100 or more were still alive. ! mittee investigating "influence peddlers or "five percent! rs." Con-
I
wing feathers holding them.
Five Rangers put rock salt on
ice holding the remaining birds to-
day, and Smith hoped the salt, with
help from the sun, would soon per-
mit their release.
He believed the birds would be
able to fly. Those rescued last
night were.
The birds were headed north
when they stopped on the bank.
Smith said. He said they roost in
catt:vls in the North Canadian
river beyond northwest 3!>tl| street,
the north boundary of the lake, and
uitay there most of the winter.
5.535 Vehicles
Listed In County
A total of 5.535 vehicles were
registered in Stephens county
since February I, IMf, the begin-
ning of the car registration year.
Of this number, 3,922 passenger
, cars were registered, 685 trucks,
en ridge team. High point man for 4::r, rarn, trucks, .".17 tr.-.ilers, 121
Breckenridge was Troy Allen with 1 truck tractors, and 55 motorcycles.
16 points in his favor, with David i The official year for car regis-
Buchanan, runnerup with 15 points, trations will not end until January
Falls, the high point man for the hjl. Rut so far this year, it looks
Eastland B squid, scored only 4 as if it will be a big year in car
points. 1 registrations for Stephens county.
Gasoline Plant
Is Purchased By
local Interests
Purchase of the gasoline refin-
ery of the Phillips Company near
Eliasville was announced today by
Guy Ewing and associates.
The plant, now the Brecken-
ridge Gasoline Go., has been pur-
chased by Messrs. Ewing, C. D.
Dofflemeyer, I'- Reischman,
Roswell, N. M., and L. D. Woods
of Midland.
The four took possession on De-
cember 18, but public announce-
ment of the purchase has been
withheld until todav.
The plant is located about twelve
miles northeast of Breckenridge
and about four miles south of
Eliasville. Mr. Ewing said today
it is running about 14,000 galons down through the Potsdam deciar-
day, the oil coming from | ation of 1945.
! Ho Armed Forces
Aid For Formosa*
President Says
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (IMS-
President Trunt.".n said today this
government lias no intention of Us-
ing its armed forces to protect
Formosa from Communist advanc-
The President, in a carefully
worded statement, said this coun-
try would not in any way inter-
fere in the present situation or
follow a course which would "lead
to involvement in the civil conflict
in China."
The President said this policy
of non-ink rference w;\3 based on
the tradition that, started with t'ne
"open door" policy in the Orient
many years ago and continued
per
Rare incision
On Heart Made
NORTH LITTLEROCK,
DETROIT. Mich.. Jan. 5 —
A Wayne University surgeon re-
ported today that he saved a pat-
ient's life with a rare operation J;<n- r' <UR A rrign of terror by
by attaching a tiny knife to his four^convicts who killed a guard,
index finger and making two in-, wounded another officer and in-
cisions inside the man's heart. directly caused the death of a third
The surgeon's finger and knife man, was ended today.
... were inside the patient's heart a- A poss- shot it out last night
™ nge bout 10 minutes during the almost with J?.mes Terry Williams, 24,
,, "i* .i?. 1 a per hour, two-hour operation. and Jack Rheuark, 22, wounding
Greer said .hat advertising for The patient. Monroe Ferrell, 42, both of them as they took their
bids tad been made prior to com- had been bedridden for two years |ast stand in a chicken coop here,
mission adoption of the new wage with mitralstenosis .an almost in-1 The two men refused to surrcn-
schedule Consequently, the old variably fatal heart ailment. Be-{ der and defied officers with the ciy
rates will prevail on Jan. 11 con- for,. the operation at Receiving to "come and get us."
tract letting*. However, th. new Hospital several weeks ago his life The posse virtually blasted the
rates, hiking top minimum* in the expectancy was "quite short" but snaCk off its foundation with al-
ElI Paao area to $11.62', per hour, now he has an "80-20 chance for mo8t 300 bullets. The gunmen em-
wi" prevail after that date. ^ survival, hopsital attendants said, ptied their weapons at the officers
but none of the 40 sts£e and local
policemen, prison trusties and vol-
unteers was injured.
Williams led the gang which
broke out of the Tucker Prison
Farm 40 miles north of hpre New
Year's eve, they killed Bill Bohan-
non, 36, a trusty who worked as a
guard, and later wounded a small-
AL1CE, Tex., Jan. t'l"'—A ; which Dr. flare l>. Sieved might In-j town night marshal who tried to
highly cultured young man. ap- a military serial number. The phy- i stop them at a road block,
parently an Air Force veteran . sician said the young man, about After they ran out of ammuni-
suffering from amnesia, recited ■ 2H, may have crashed in a plane tion, Williams and Rheuark were
Shakespeare, sang in Italian and in Italy and "blacked out" since badly shot up that officers had
identified famous paintings today
as an Alice doctor tried to help
him regain his memory.
Reign Of Terror By 2 Convicts
Ends When Both Are Shot
Eliasville field in Stephens and
Young counties.
Twelve men are being employed,
i ft was added.
: Damage done- by the recent fire
| to the plant has been repaired,
; Mr. Ewing said, the damage being
j only to the building.
Mr. Doffelmeyer is a resident of
Breckenridge and Mr. Reischman
is a former business man of Breck-
; en ridge.
But attendants <X University Hos- shack and ordered anyone inside
pital expected them to live. to n ine out. Burgis apparently
An hour earlier, convict David thought he was being attacked by
"Rcd* Dyer, 28, surrendered when the convicts. He opened fire, woun-
potice found him, quivering with ding an officer. Police returned
Americans Killed
On Luzon Ranch
MANILA. P. I., Jan. 5 <U.R-
"Th" United States," he said,
"has r:o predatory designs on For-
mosa or any other Chinese terri-
tory." , . .
He went on to s y that this f tions in the seven-slat,
country wants no special rights or | 'm''al«i
privilege ; or militaiy bases on For- ! Arkansas
H * said specifically that the Tennessee.
United States:
I. Will not use its armed forces
in the presr nt Chinese situation.
! 2. Will net become involved in
I any way in the Chinese civil con-
flict.
3. Will not provide "military aid
or advice" to Chinese Nationalist
j forces oil Formosa.
"In the view of the United States
govt rnmcnt. the resources on For-
HOARS OF QUESTIONING FAIL
TO IBENTIFY TALENTEB NAN
The tall, wavv-haired man was
discovered Tuesday admiring toys
that time. The youth referred fre-jto carry them from the ruins of
qu >ntly to an Italian graveyard, the shed. Both had been shot twice.
Italian cities and Italian opera ——
"Mentally, he i> extremely bril Nosh DfcnlaVS Cor!
liant," Clare said. ' vwl
When Chopin Fantasie was CaUc |||UUf CI AAA
played for him, he became highly ^l|WW
emotional, crying: NEW YORK, Jan. 5 IRE*—Nash
I've heard it, I've heard it. Alec Motors displayed a new small con-
Templeton. I think he's blind. St. vertible to the buying public today
Louis, My mother, oh my God, my to find out how many persons
mother. I can't go on." ; would buy such a car to sell for
vacated often a Street ad- He speaks and writes fluent | leas than $ 1,000.9
dress, 100" South Monroe St. He j Italian and cultured English. In a ■ Nash said ft has no plans at pre-
mentfoned St. Louis, Milwaukee,, well-controlled tenor voice,' he j sent to build the sleek, foreign-
Sacramento and Atlanta. i sang a Neapolitan folk song and - looking car, which it has named
"I tB! V tell whether there is j made reference lo Oprra .Star En I the NX-I. The company will ex-
any «waal Ition between the ad-1 rico Caruso. ' hibit it in several large cities
""ring one interview, he repeal- ] where 250,000 persons win be ask-
ed part of the ritual of the Catho- ed to Till in questionnaires about
lie Mass in tatin. • I the car.
When police picked him up for The two-seater model could be
investigation, he had'six cents in powered with either of three Ital-
pocket and was wearing new ian or English engines, develop-
ing from 18 to 36 horsepowe r with
a top speed of 85 to 70 miles an
in a lomi shop window. He has
reinemfcrfed events since that
time accurately and has startled
|>r. P. Gordon Clare with his
knowledge of the arts.
But IS hours of questioning in
two days failed to produce tang-
ible result* regarding his past.
He repeated often a street ad
MMMion
dress MM W ee cities," Dr. flare
said. .
!St*h terms as war department,
Sacramento Air Depot, Kelly
FieM, Randolph Field, 12th Air
Forc% MR and night missions
fignnH prominently Tn his ramb-' clothes, including a natty sports
ling eonveraatitas. | jacket. There was no identification
fie i will il a namber, 204030, in a soiled wallet.
hour.
mobile" jSk^'in^ga^Tne | £££ a"d ^^d j The^S of* iwo".AmeHcp.;"ap- ^^'^te'To^We thTm
fourth member of the gang, Otis ; „
Eaton, hrd given up on Monday.
While the four met were at Cmiiiini PflCeilAil
large, virtually all Arkansas resi- j VM|llllwl
dents had lived in fear of them. ft — J B_-L
Authorities had warned that they | ■ nCll MUmpeO DOCK
were armed and highly dangerous.
parently murdered by bandits, have
been found on their ranch in a
I remote region of Western Luzon,
| police said today .
Police said reports of the slay-
| ings, nearly seven weeks ago,
(the Chinese Nationalists) to ob-
tain the items which they might
consider necessary for the defense
of the islands," Mr. Truman said.
But he added thr.t t'nis govern-
ment would continue the present
reached here today. The victims 1 limited program of economic assist-
Lee Burgis, 64, was" killed acci- j GALVESTON, Tex., Jan.. 5. -U.fi: ^idenUW ;«£uUfj. Sarles. j.,nce ^nalirf*
Jiivrl -of Spring Lake. Mich. i two-page statement to reporters.
dentally by oficers who believed I —A prominent sea captain was
the convicts had hidden in his shack | rescued from the Gulf of Mexico
here earlier in the week. a°d then dumped back into the
Officers had surrounded the , water only a few hours before his
lifeless body was found, an autop-
sy surgeon declared today.
The autopsy was ordered on the I
body of Capt. Mason D. Wiggins. I
57, of Houston, who fell from his i
pilot ship in the rough Gulf wat-!
era Saturday. His body was found j
on West Beach Tuesday, some 60 j
hours after he was lost.
Dr. N. D. Schofield announced,
however, that the captain had j
been dead only 10 hours when the J
body was discovered by two !
C-C Membership
Drive Is Opened
The reports alsj *;• id Sarles' Fil- then told them that the secretary
i(tino wife and her brother were;of State Dean Acheson would hold
missing, apparently kidnapped by; a news confer: nee i't 2:30 p. m.
the'bandits. Both Sarles and JirgljEST today. Acheson had a long
are former American servicemen, talk with the President yesterday.
Congress Moves
Toward Showdown
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5 'U.R
President Truman and Congre ■«
plunged today toward a showdown
, n spending with chances th sale*
taxes will be lowered but that no
others will be raised.
Powerful members of Mr. Tru-
man's own party were joining the
Republican opposition to a tax
hike. But from all sides then-
was considerable support for a ie
duction. of the sales tax on so-
c: lled luxury items.
The Senate proceeded today wiili
debate on removing taxes from
oleomargarine. The House wa* in
recess until Friday. President Tru-
man scheduled a mid-morning pre s
conference (10:30 a. m.. EST).
PaHiarf Wave
io Committee will be adapted t' ROOd COnStTUCtlOn
form started by the Fort Worth
lamber of Commerce. The new-
Chamber of Commerce 1950
membership drive began this
morning with a meeting of the
newly-named Membership Com- j workers
mittee, headed by H. S. Lemmons,! r,,ncn worK<
present vice-president.
Lemmons stated that under a
new policy recommended by the
Board of Directors, the Member-
shi "
a
Chamber
committee will be operative twelve
months of the year and will net as
both as a membership committee
and a welcoming committee.
Members of the committee will
be checking for new members and
contacting old members to secure
their suggestions for the 19541
program which is now being pre-
pared by the Board of Directors.
It is the intention of the Board to .
align all suggestions to blueprint, Kflky ^■|| | DAfn
a complete 1950 program in keep- ■ IFUI is
ing with the desires and wishes of j
the membership. M:-. and Mrs. J. W. Hill are the
Lemmons stated today that his' parents of a baby girl, born Wed-
THREE MIL BREAKERS ME
GAPTMEB WITH ROAR BLOCKS
I ROLL A, Mo., Jan. 5 T.l!>—Three, gained entrance to the jail. When
prisoners from Detroit, Mich., who i they did, they found the Woffard
i escaped from the Phelps County (twins inside.
I jail here early today, were appre- "We had just presumed they es-
fou
DALLAS, Tex.. Jan. 5 <U.e
Albert Law of the Dalhart Texan
reported to United Press today:
"Heat wave here. Overnight low-
five above zero."
Yesterday's comparable figure
was eight below zero.
X W. HMs Have
hended without a fight some four
hours later near St. Louis, the
Highway Patrol here announced.
Lt. C. M. Huston said the men
were captured by troopers of the
Kirkwood' office near the Dia-
monds, a short distance west of
St. Louis. '•
The prisoners, identified as
Thomas A. Clark, 32: John Ed-
ward Miller, 29, and Fred Stuhi-
nian, 23. were. removed to jail at
Union ville. Mo., pending return
here.
Originally, authorities believed
five prisoners had escaned, but in-
vestigation revealed that 10-year j
caped too," one police officer said.
The Detroit men, after gaining
their freedom, broke into a Rolla
garage, stole a 1047 Studebaker
conch, $300 in cash and $3,500 in
checks from the garage safe. Then
they made a daring, but inistic-
cessful attempt to rescue a woman
companion, being held on similar
charges at the city jail here.
Police broke up the rescue at-
tempt and forced the prisoners to
flee east on Highway 66 road-
blocks were set. up immedately
and one of them paid a dividend
.... near SJ. Ijouis.
The woman whose freedom was
committee had already laid the
groundwork for the campaign and
expected to complete the drive
within two weeks.
nesday. and weighing 7 pounds, 7
ounces. Only other admission to
the local hospital was Mrs. Robert
Grant, medical patient.
old twin brothers. Clyde and Clar-, sought by the prisoners was iden-
enee Woffard, did not accompany
the Michigan men, being held on
burglary and larceny charges.
In gaining their freedom, the
Michigan men Jammed the jail
door to such an extent it was
hours later before authorities
t.ified as the wife of Miller.
The three were taken by Patrol-
man W. R. Montr., riding alone,
without a struggle. Huston of the
Highway Patrol here said "as far
as we know, there was no shoot-
ing, no struggle whatsoever."
Offrcfals Silent
On Bomb Report
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 'll.fi \.
tomic officials here refused to
comment today on a London re-
port that 'Russia plans to set. off
another atomic explosion at mid-
night Saturday.
Informed sourees said privately
they saw no reason to doubt that
Russia has enough fissionable
material (atomic explosive) for a-
nother test blast.
When this country detonated its
first atomic booth in New- Mexico
on July 16, 1945, it had enough
material to. make two additional
bombs....the ones that wrecked
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
_ It was assumed here that Rus-
sia did not shoot off all of its
stock In the atomic explosion an-
nounced by President Truman last
Sept. 23.
$lrl lorn Friday
To Woodsonites
WOODSON. Jan. 5 fSnll Mr.
and Mra. Dave Dickie of Woodson
are the parents of a baby girl, horn
December 30 at Hendrix Memorial
Hospital in Abilene, weighing 6
pounds, 4 ounces. Mother and child
were expected to be fit home today.
d
.
January, J94l>.
Nearly 60 families had been
forced from their homes in the
lowlands of the Wabash River a
long the Illinois-Indiana boundary
near Terre Haute, Ind. Weathwr
officials warned of a "major
flood" as the Wabash crested 11
feet above flood stage along it ;
upper reaches.
The Kaskaskia River ifiuml
over 7,000 acres of rich farmland
when a'levee broke north of Van
datia, III. High water from the
Embarrass River swamped Villa
Grove, III., driving scores of fami-
lies from their homes in rowboat,-.
Red Cross workers evacuated 16
families- near Kokomo, Ind., when
Wildcat Creek broke its boundar-
ies.
Authorities hoped zero tempera-
tures would form sufficient ice to
slow the rising waters.
Sub-zero temperatures were
common in the Midwest, Great
Plains, and Northern Rockies.
A concoction of freezing rain,
sleet and snow formed a 200-mile-
wide sheet of ice from Syracuse,
N. Y.," southwest to Western
Louisiana.
- In a special advisory, the
weather bureau at Wasnuigtou
warned this morning that rain,
sleet and falling temperatures had
created hazardous driving condi
irea of
Illinois. Missouri,
anel the central and
vVeatern portions of Kentucky and
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