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VOL II, NO. 37
FULL LEANED WIRE INS AND 111’
Equalization
Refuses Oil
Board
Company
GLADEWATER, TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1»S0.
Ohio Home Leveled By Blost
STATION KSIJ — 1430 ON YOUR DIAL
a CENTS PER COPY
Postponement Request
Individual Action Ranges From
Acceptance Of Values To Protests
Individual actum by major oil from
company lax repen.fiitutives, I
met lini' with tlic si bool tax equal ] , ,
i/utiou board tins morning, ranged r**lua,,0,,s s‘d lj* •'nhhetl and Ab
-------bol evaluating firm
acceptance of th<‘ disputed
tax value' to protests taking the I
Latfimore Joined
Red Tolalilarians
In '40, Panel Told
Began With
'Critical
Sympathy'
WASHINGTON, May 1 iUP>
For rue r Couiniuiiud Freda Utley
ant today that Owen l.attirnurc
and be Wife apparently "der ided
to throw in their lot with the
CoriiiiiuniKt totalitarians" ome
tune ill ItMO.
Mr-. Utley, a British born for-
Phil Shipp, spokesman for the
i equalization board, turned down'
Ian nil company requert for a ten
I day postponement to study the val ;
| nations further and rugger ted that
each representative work out the
problem witli toe valuation firm.
A dlseiis .ion pci iod betwii'ii tin*
hoard and tax experts prevent at
tempted to diM'lo e the .system
I ic ed m arriving at the new tax
I evaluation, reportedly highei than !
| last year’s values.
Charles Freeman of tlu* Sun Oil;
{Company asked Shipp what Urn I
the board placed the tax valuation
| mi to arrive at the rate set this
year and was told the board ict tin 1
rate at 30 per cent of total sail I
value as of the first of lids yeai ;
The tax men stressed the point
that their companies did not w i It'
to hamper operation of the schools,
hut merely wanted to be certain,
that tux rates for real estate in the
EAST, WEST STAGE
MAY DAY FIGHTS
British Troops In Armored Cars Directed
By U.S. Helicopter Breaks Up Crowd
BERLIN, May 1 'INS'—An estimated million East and Wert
Berlin*!s staged gigantic rallies for and against Communism’s May
Day today and stone-throwing demonstrators clashed with East sectoi
police m one of a series of incidents.
The main clash occurred between several thousand West Berliner*
and Eastern Berlin police in the busy Potsciamerplat/. m ive eentu
of the city.
British troops in armored cars end directed by a U S. Air Force
| helicopter broke up the crowd.
! The fighting broke out when
| 100 east Beilin police closed off
ONLOOKERS SURVEY the damage after an explosion wrecked a l'i-story frame house in Cleve-
land. O., injuring three people. One neighbor described the explosion as. "just like a tornado."
Police are investigating reports that a dry cleaning business had been carried on in the house. (Acme
Telephoto).
met ( onimumst, ti -.tilled before City were* on the same level as tax
the Senate foreign relations sub
committee on contacts with l.itti-
inoie in this country and m Mos
cow. Slu* said he began with
■’cnticnl" sympathy Im the Soviet
regime and ended in "out and
out defense of it: action: lie
iLaltiinore1 wants, it seems to me,
to lx- on the winning side and lie
think the ('omnium t-, are going
to win," site said
rates fur the oil companies
The concensus of opinion
was
that most of tlu- companies would i
pay their taxes with some exccp
lions. Some representatives made
verbal reservations to allow time
to study the valuation before
m.iking any official decision Other
representatives accepted the v:tl-|
u»- ‘.«'t aiul some of tho:V pr< *'Ut
Six Killed, 3 Homes
Set Afire In (rash
Of B-25 Bomber
LEBANON, 111., May t <INS>.-
Solon Seeks Removal
Of Gambler's Phones
U.S. Could Hatch
Russian Submarine
Strength In War
WASHING I ON. May 1 (UP)
—The House Armed Service
Committee today unanimously
approved legislation to let the
Navy start work on a $335,000.-
000 modernization program that
will include construction of an
atomic-powered submarine.
Stalin Reviews May
Day Parade At Red
Square tn Moscow
Includes New
Soviet Model
Of Jet Planes
WASHINGTON, May 1 (UP)—
Sen. Charles W. Tobey, <H„ N.
H.1, demanded today that the tele.
Air Force official.- launched an phone companies remove the
ittvt ligation today into the crash phones of Flank Costello, Gamb-
of a B-2.r> bomber that exploded ler Frank Erickson, and Betting
in a M'sulential section of Leha-1 Commissioner James, J. Carroll
non, killing, -ix peisons aboard of St. Louis.
tlie plane ami setting fire to three, j|(, said these "gangsters” have
Mli>' conceded that slu* Could ^ out' igiii
lint prove that 1-lttiuiore bad evil
actually joined ttle
Pai 11 But he mid
"Nome lime after his visit to
Moscow in U<3t;. he ■ eenitHl to
have become a Communist lellow
Ttie equalization board consist-
ConTmumx'l ed <*f Phil Shipp, Lyle Hendricks
and W. 1) Sprouse. The oil men.
and their companies, who were
present were:
Harry C. Smith. Magnolia; Bill
tlUVelei a I hull demolish ate by | Horsley, Atlantic Refining Co: U
tu writings
Tin- ubtuniiiiitiet g, invest igat
mg cliatgei- by Sen. Joseph It
McCarthy iR Wisa that the Stati
II. Tulloch, Texas Company; M. B.
Womack of Shell Oil Company;
I George Prendergast of Southwest
ern Gas and Electric Company; R.
horn
The names of the six victims in
yesterday’s crash were withheld.
Three other persons were in-
jured slightly when the twin-
engined craft struck a tree and
showered a 1,000 font wide area
with flaming gasoline and debris'.
Tin* plane was enroute from
Scott Field in nearby Belleville
to Perrin Field, its home base in
Discontinuance Of
T&P Trains Sought
Walter
_ ... .. . i „ . i iree in the yard
* Sovirt he nos offer** I Styler of Deep Hock Ofl Corp.: Bricl«*y*. 60. exploded with a roar
•o stake hit. entile car against the Cur let on Meredith, representing aluj ignited tlu* two-story home of
depaitment on the Lattlinorv independents; J. M Stembrldjfe of
charge; j Texas Canadian: Lee Kirkwood.
Mr Utley raid he first met the various independents, D. A. Bash
Lat tint ore- in Morrow iii 193ti an*i (' A Peterson of Cities Sir
when the Johns Hopkins profes vice; Charles I* Freeman of Sun
for was there as an American j Oil Company: 1. T Gary of Sea-
delegate from tlu* Institute of. ixsard; Jack Powell of N P. I’ow
Pacific Relation At that time, .-n, r c McCullev of Kewanee,
she aid, lie was working, for thelj;. N Stovall and i‘ U. Hagan of
famou Soviet economist, Eugene stanolind.
lai.-l vveek mos! of these same
representatives appeared trefoil
tin* City equalization board to pro-
test. in a group action, their tax
values. So far none of them have
indicated whether tiny will lift
that protest or not. Their previous
protest was trust'll on the conten-
tion that their values had been set j
| too high arbitrarily and that othoi
| tax values in the City were not
, • et at the same level.
Varga, in the
the I PR.
Russian branch of i
I ( tun
Stiett*
Kodiak Bouad: Headed for I
Alaska to hunt the world’s Ian:
i st carnivorous animal, tile Ko
■ liak Hear, is Jatk Yates He left
early this moimng on I’.VP foi !
Dallas, Denver, Seattle, Fairbanks, I
Kodi.ik md the Yukon territory.
He will search for the biggest
deni bear in the Northwest, hop !
mg to bring link another trophy j
for his cabin and den. Instead |
of using, horse to hunt, he will go
upstream in a hunt, debarking
when bear is sighted. Happy limit -
lng!
Eager Beaver*: The unusually
eag.ei Junior Chamber of Com
merce will h o I d a "directors”
meet tomorrow instead of their
usual luncheon. T h e y canceled
then regular meet to join other
civic clubs m an all service club
luncheon Thursday for Dairy J)a,v
proceedings Tliev set the "ill
rectors" meet mil members are
to attend1 to talk about the Youth
('entet project planned shortly
A site iummttU'e is slated lo pro-
duce results at the meet. Any in-
terested el I i ren Invited ibring
your own admission fee.)
Wet Week end: A rainy week-
end produced a few minor wrecks
and the police blotter was soppy
with "drunks" who visited this
wet territory. A minor wreck on
If. K. flu, Big Randy way, injured
nothing lull the two ears involv-
ed and the dignity of the law
• State Patrolmen Pat Speir and
Jimmy Nail got soaking wet cov
erinp, the accident.
Oulu Town: Di. J N Atkins
away over the week -end to Hnrt-
da His aunt there passed away,
lie is expected hack early this
week.
Bear-lng Down: Three home
runs (Hank Robinson, Hairy
Scherttng «nd Hal Van Pelt* par-
ed the 7 4 Bear win over Sunday
afternoon The Bears belted the
ball like they were playing 1*<«»K-
vlew. Game time tonight 8 (10 p.
m. Bear Park, playing Bryan
•gain. Go out and watch tha bat-
ting averages soar!
•‘indicted themselves” before a
Senate commerce subcommittee
and "admitted under oath" they
are violating the law.
Therefore, Tobey told Clyde
Bailey, executive vice president
of the U. S. Independent Tele-
phone Association, the companies
should deny them telephone ser-
vice for gambling activities.
"If l had my wav I'd deprive
them of phone service instantly,”
Bailey replied. "1 wish it could
be done, but there are some very
practical considerations."
The committee is studying leg-
, | islation v Uich would forbid
*'' ' . . aav ' 'UP_* — Oral [ transmission of certain gambling
information across state lines.
A Bell spokesman, S. Whitney
Landon, testified that the tele-
phone companies are doing all
they can to help local authorities
,, r 1. o.. I J „ , stamp out gambling. Senate in-
C. F. I * ttit. Railroad Commis- vestigators, however, told him
sion examiner, said the hearing that the company's case was not
was originally scheduled toil ay but 1 vorv convincing.
Bailey said that the committee
should not make "law enforce-
,, ... ,, , ,, , ment agencies” out of the tele-
lb* said it would probably l*1, phone companies.
i**l it •» mi* it it ti «*r* l • i IuiDii**i tin* *
___________ _______^ ________ __________ _ ^ Tobey asked if the companies
\ recoin I blast hortlx alter the I who requested the hearing include I hail called the attention of law
| crash resulted in burns to a state the Railroad Brotherhoods and lit -1 officers to the testimony - das
polio-man who wa- helping to re- izi-ns along the railroad’s route [week of Erickson, Costell anti
I cover bodies of tlu* victims j Pettit said. j that other fellow identified
later as Carroll.
Bailey said he did not know
but "t h a t probably bas been
Tbe possibility of dieontinuation i done" or "probably will be done."
Landon had said earlier he
miles I Worth and Texarkana will hove no j was "not so sure" that the big
liie Soviet sector border on the]
Potsdamerplatz. MOSCOW, May 1 iUPi.—An
We^t Berliners tried to smash ar™da of planes, including
up a wood and cardboard replica w*la* may be a new Russian
of a tank painted with anti-west- i I,r‘oc e ' swePt over Red Square to-
ern slogans. They were driven j \u^ 1,1 a mighty May Day parade
back by gunpoint but tiien hurled re'iewe<* ^-v ^re,r)*ei’ Josef Stalin,
stories which compelled the East j GianT tanks and other ground
Berlin police to retreat back into weapons rolled before Stalin as
the Soviet sector. , he stood with his closest aides on
It was estimated that a million ‘ Benin’s tomb. Stalin, looked vigor-
Berliners, half of them Commun- i ous and healthy. After the troops
ists and halt' from the West, parti- marched past there was a demon-
n pa ted in the day’s demonstra- ] strut ion of about 2,000,000 civil-
tions. The West Berliners, backed ■ tuns.
b> steel-helmeted allied troops in
battle dress, sheuted their de-
fiance of Communism in a giant
rally
Police Invado Area
Another incident occurred in
the suburb of Zehlendorf in the
United States sector. A group of
Washington, May 1 unsc—
Adm. Forrest P. Sherman declar-
ed today that the United States
could match Russia’s submarine
strength in numbers and perfor-
mance in event of an immediate
war.
However, the chief of naval °p- E^t Gennan' oobce invad! i <* J^. and some military
orations told International News f ' F'a' ?n att^pt to Dre- observers said ,here was one new
Service this equal balance hinges vcn. West C?erman i^hee from model hitherto undisplayed,
on reactivation of "something al> ] Two « was one of the most impres-
nowebin"mmhb-.Us"- sub,"lrineSlSoTw l^soiriiers armed with ma-;^f military parades in Soviet
now in mothballs. I Mne pistolg covered them from I hlstor-v Some forei*n military ob-
The premier’s son, Lt. Gen. Vas-
sili Stalin, piloted the lead plane,
a four-motored bomber. The low-
flying armada, consisting of
scores of bombers and jet fighters,
flashed by so fast no foreign ob-
server could get a good view.
But there were at least two
argument by a group protesting the
Sh,:,,s. T«* ........... .-i.ias^’j^Tir &SSS
1 * ^ 1 j service* Ix't .vt*6n Fort tVorth «nid
Department is loaded with Com-IT Conner and B P. Lyon of Hum- i^n^iJiV iiHicared to^bi.'on'fire i'ust Tt>*arl$ana *as postponed indefin-
388L saiiftx -r oM &1 ,,a »V-* * rs-.
fish- was postponed until the recurd of]
Xln* * a hearing Iield at Bonham about [
a month ago is transcribed. ,
Fiank Wolf, who was on
mg trip with tus family
house burned to the ground.
The flume set fire to two other
home; and threatened to spread J about a month or so” before the I
throughout Hit* neighborhood. ] hearing is held. Protesting groups!
Meanwhile, the American peo-;J, , .
pie v’ere warned that they would ■,ne Dolcltl*
I to ♦ Bo iOi'UIImoiI onrl” dni*inn
be “on the receiving end” during] Numerous arrests were made ] cating je{s as wejj as four.
the early days of an atomic war throughout the day. The pi ison-. engined bombers now* are being
and unable to mobilize industry ers included seven pistol-waving mass produced.
4'.>11*1 4 am 1 O n.. .nJ Fnct Rtiflin I 11 1 .** Til II Yk'hn WPr4' i.
servers said there were more jet
fighters than ever before, indi-
fully lor 18 months.
This appraisal of American
prospects in a "shooting war " was
ad\ a need by Army Chief of Staff
Gen. J. Lawton Collins and echo
ed by Reps. Mahon <D.-Tex.) and
Hinshaw iR.-Cal.).
Sherman, Collins’ opposite
number in the Navy, asserted on
a radio program, that *‘I would be
less than realistic ir 1 didn't think
spies were spying on the United
States.”
In recent months, Sherman re-
peatedly has warned that Russia
has about four times more active
submarines than the U.S.
He said the Soviet now has
about 270 submarines in commis-
sion and presumably none in
"mothballs,” while U.S. U-boat
East Berlin policemen who were Stalin, Viacheslav M. Molotov,
taken into custody and disarmed Qeorg, Malenkov, and other polit-
when they attempted to interfere buro members and military lead-
with removal of Communists erSi heard the chief of the gen-
posters.
In the Soviet sector. East Ger-
man Communists staged their big-
gest military spectacle since the
war.
Eighteen hundred elite police
troops, armed with rifles, goose-
stepped past Communist leaders.
At the anti-Comniunist rally,
staged before the Reichstag build-
ing, West Berlin Mayor Ernst
Reuter said:
Not To Yield
“Berliners will never yield to
slavery. If we continue, we will
win our fight for Democracy."
United States and B r i t i s h |
Glade Not Affected
Flaming gasoline set fire to the
homes ut Bridges and J. B. Sch-
midt. but tin* blazes was extin-
guished by the Lebanon Fire De-
partment. aided h\ equipment 1 of passenger service between Fort
*..n milzxt 1 Wiirtli :a11.1 Tnv irlf'Hi.'i will Int u n*i
Field, seven
from Scott
away.
The plane narrowly
Mount Olive Baptist Church [ L. K Hall. TAP station manager,
where fit) persons were attending > The line which will In* effected
i ix in" before it plowed into the roes through Paris and Sherman,
maple tree aero. the street. he added.
! effect on passenger trains running I companies “served notice” on
missed the j through Gladewater, according to I what Tobey called "these people
in the public gaze."
Bailey represents only small
independent telephone compan-
ies.
strength totals only about 70 on I troops were on guard throughout
active duty but "something ap-j the day to forestall serious inci-j
proaching 200 in the reserve dents.
fleet.” I In the British sector, about 100 j
Sherman further declared that Tommies set up a cordon around
the U.S. has many “standard | 1 "
oral staff, Gen. Sergi Shtemenko,
deliver a message to the troops.
Shtemenko said the Soviet armed
forces are strong and ready to de-
fend the fatherland.
“Warmongers remember,” he
said “that no arms race, provoca-
tions or military blocs will frigh-
ten the Soviet people.”
Crack troops of the Moscow
garrison marched past the re-
viewing stand atop Lenin’s red
and black granite mausoleum.
The massed spectators gave their
heaviest applause to the frontier
guards and the internal security
units.
fleet-type submarines of the late
World War II version which are
excellent weapons in
warfare.”
The end result in event of an
immediate war would mean that
American submarine pow*er “on
the average could measure up to"
the Soviet’s, he added.
the huge Soviet war memorial
near the Brandenburg gate al-
though British authorities had no-
undersea I tified the Russians they would be
held responsible for order in the
area.
A dozen Soviet guards remain-
ed on duty at the memorial, pac-
ing inside the British lines, tommy
guns in hand.
Mayor 'Arrested/ Police Chief 'Shot’ As Reds Take Over Town
* - — man who ,ooks like a hammered-1 The populace at
Hi'
MOSINEK, Wiv, May 1 -INS'
rht* mayor was uncereconious-
np yanked out of bed and "ar
rested” and the chief id police
was "shot" like a rat as make-
believe inaurrectioniata” took <>v
er the town of Mosinee today and
set up a "Communist" Govern-
ment.
These realistically staged inci
dents wefc part of Mo-inee’s "One
Day of Communism," as put on
by the Wisconsin Department of
the American Legion to drama
tize tlie value of American cili
zenshlp. *
Heading an armed squad of
five "Red" soldiers "Commis
sar" Ben Gitlow, a pistol strapped
around Ids waist, marched to the
home of Chief of Police Carl Go-
wiss ill 7 a. ni„ and gave him the
Comniy "business."
Placed Under Arrest
“You rat. you’re under arrest,"
shouted Gitlow, and his soldiers
grabbed the chief by the arms and
shoulders.
"You won’t club any m o r e
workers. We’ll teach you a les-
son.”
The chief was marched down
the street to city hall, where |x>-
ilei* headquarters are located.
Behind him trouped Gitlow and
his squad, who were armed with
rifles and tommy guns. It was the
chief’s "death march," although
he didn’t know it.
At police headquarters, Gitlow
commanded the chief to take a
sent.
"Now, you rat," yelled Gitlow,
“l want you to tell your police
to come over to the side of the
revolution."
Given Another ’’Chance
pile
big galoot. I’ll give
you lust one more chance," said
the "commissar," pulling his gun
from his holster.
"Never!," reiterated the chief.
"Never!" replied Chief Gewiss.
"Why, you l>lg galoot, I’ll
Gitlow put the nose of his gun
hack of Gewiss' left ear ami pull-
ed trigger shouting, "There you
' it
II was tlie first "bloodshed” of
the "revolution " However, there
was no corpus dilecti. In fact, the
"dead" chief rose from the chair,
went into an adjoining-room, and
began to organize -his cops for
other work they had to perform
in the day's pageant.
Everything was ,(olng forward
smoothly in the “revolution."
There was no threat of any
kind from ic.it Communists yvlm
the day before had slipped into
Mo- nice and di -tributed Commun-
ist literature to every home in
tiiyvn.
Strange Auto Stopped
Along about d a w n today an
American Legion patrol car spot-
ted n strange automobile carry,
mg five men. When tlu* men in
the ear saw they yvere being fol-
loweil they quickly left the reg-
ion.
An hour before the chief of
police was ’’eliminated,” a "Red"
squad led by “Commissar” Joseph
/,. Kurufeder marched menacing-
ly to the home of Mayor Ralph E.
kronen wetter.
The mayor was asleep up stairs.
The "commissar" and his men
trudged upstairs and yanked the
mayor out of bod. The mayor
slipped a red bathrobe over his
maroon pajamas.
Soon tin* front door opened and,
as a battery of photographers
srained their cameras on the
scene, the mayor was given "tin*
bum’s rush" across tin* front porch
and out into the street.
Down the street he was march-
ed, the squnit at his heels.
Camera men scampered all
around shooting pictures.
Told to "Look Tough’’
Commissar” Kornfeder, a form
er Communist who speaks a
man who looks like a hammered-
down Molotov. He wore a black
plus hat over his bald head. He
also wore a raincoat, with should-
er holster and a .38 revolver
protruding from it.
At city hall. Mayor Kornenwet-
ter was told his life would be
spared if he would read a state-
ment over the radio to tlie popu-
lace advising them th*t the
"Reds" had taken over.
Mayor Demurrs
Tiie mayor demurred but a
few gun pokes from "Commis-
sar" Kornfeded persuaded him
to make up his mind.
"I’ll do it if I have to," said
the mayor. And he dutifully read
the proclamation.
Komfedder then ordered the
squad to take him to the con-
centration camp: The mayor was
marched off, double time.
A striking force of 75 men
were all that were required by
"commissars." Komfedder and
Gitlow to take over the town.
mid-morning
was herded into "Red Square"
yvhere they were harangued by |
the "commissars."
In his hard-boiled manner, ]
Kornfeder told the people of Mos-
inee yvhat they henceforth must
do, yvith heavy emphasis on the
"must."
The pageant was designed to
expose to the people of Ameri-
ca the treachery, betrayal and ul-
timate slavery masked by the
term, “Communism," under total-
itarian rule.
Before the day was over, the
demonstration was to be featur-
ed by the seizure of Mosinee's
weekly newspaper, its churches
and public buildings, the opening
of a concentration camp and the
running up of the Red Flag, with
its hammer and sickle.
Pott Office Seised
The U. S. postoffice on ’lain
street, the Mosinee Commercial
Bank, the Wisconsin Public Ser.
vice Corporation and the public
Sharon Lee Bigler
Rites Held Today
Funeral services for Sharon Lee
Bigler, seven months old daughter
of Mrs. Bessie Jane Bigler of
Gladewater and Fred Bigler of
Oklahoma City, who died at her
home from strangulation list
Thursday, were held today at 3:30
at the chapel of the Everett-Stone
Funeral Home, with Rev. Ben H.
Stripling officiating.
Survivors, besides her parents,
include an aunt and uncle, Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Jessup of Gladewater;
her maternal grandmother, Mrs. J.
W. Baitt of Scrappboose, Oregon;
and her paternal grandmother,
Mrs. E. Roper of Oklahoma City.
Burial was in Gladewater Mem-
orial Park, directed by Everett-
Stone.
Now that the mayor and the ' library were seized
FREDERICK RAy. of Mosinee, Wis., places a sign in front of hit
home announcing sale in Russian rubles as the town gets info the
spirit of being Communist-dominated for a day. The American
Legion is sponsoring the idea to show cititen* what they would
be in tor should the Reds eyer take oyer Mosinee. (Acme Tele-
photo).
"Look tough," the photograph-
ers shouted to Kornfeder.
The pugnacious Kornfeder
scowled and held the grimace In
a t\vo-l>lock tramp to city hall.
Kornfeder is a short, stocky
broken English, looked very se-
vere as he did his stuff. He wore
a two-day stubble of black beard
on his round cheeks, reminding
one of .lack Dempr.ey when he
used to enter tiie ring.
police chief were taken care of
the "Reds" seized the p o w e r
house of the Mosinee Paper Com-
pany.
After subduing the guards, they
placed a large sign over the plant,
reading:
"Nationalized by t h e United
Soviet States of America.”
At 8:30 a. in., the clergymen
of town were rounded up and ar-
rested and clamped into the con-
centration camp
While all this was going on
“Communist” action was taking
place all over town.
Road Blocks Manned
Road blocks were organized and
manned. "Actlvltists’’ put up
many kinds of banners and pla-
cards and the "Red" flag was
raised over city hall and other
public buildings.
Books on religion, economics
in the capitalist state, or those
dealing with American historical
events were confisticated.
By mid-morning the town of
Mosinee was completely in the
hands of the "Rod insurrection-
ists."
Happily, this nightmare—this
"one day Communism"—was to
come to an end at a grand rally
at 8:15 p. m. (CST> at Dessert
Park
“Communists" for a day, who
had been playing a role to teach
the true meaning of American-
ism, were to cast aside their
"subversive” roles and join in
raising the American flag. Boy
Scouts were to burn all Commun-
ist banners and placards in a
huge bonfire.
Tornado Strikes
Louisiana Town
ALEXANDRIA. La, May 1 iUP>
—State police said tln*v had a re-
uort that a tornado smashed into
the little town of Cioutiervllle, La,
in west central Louisiana shortly
after noon today.
The number of casualties was
not immediately available, but
state police said there had been
"some injuries.” Several houses
were destroyed, officers said, and
a school house was hit.
The Charity Hospital at Alex-
andria received an emergency call
for ambulances and has dispatched
two to the scene.
Cloutierville is in Natchitoches
Parish.
TRAIN KILLS LABORER
EDCOUCH, May l (UPv—Juan
Morena, 21-year-old Mexican la-
borer was killed by a westbound
Southern Pacific freight train near
here yesterday.
Weather
F°RAS*STTF.XAS: Considerable
cloudiness, showers in the north
portion tonight and Tuesday. War-
mar in the north portion tonight
and Tuesday.
GLADEWATER AREA—Moetly
cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms, little change In
temperatures tonight and Tuesday.
Lowest tomght near 00.
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Bedichek, Wendell. Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 37, Ed. 1 Monday, May 1, 1950, newspaper, May 1, 1950; Gladewater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1007977/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lee Public Library.