Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 203, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 28, 1950 Page: 1 of 8
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Leopard Returns To Zoo
Harmless As A Pussycat
Shivers Slated To Sign Tax Bill
OKLAHOMA CITY. Feb. 28
• UPl—A wilrl i'M .|K'il leopard was
recaptured almost without a fight
today after lie was lured bark tu
Lincoln Park Zui. by uarcotic-
tieated meat .ml perhaps by
love.
The oara trim lour beast, which
eluded hunter*, dogs, U S Mar
inrs and airplane; for HU hour;:,
collapsed in a stupor iu his own
lau and war put in a cage with no
more than pussycat resistance
/.no Ouectnr Julian Frn/iei said
lie wouldn’t be • ui pi ised if the
male animal had Ills female mate
on hi:, mind when he returned to
the split from which he ercuped
will. .. tremeudour leap Saturday
afternoon
by the leopard pit. It was all part
ol . plan ..ml a hope. Murplis and
Zoo Director Julian Frazier had
decided to leave open the gate to
the service passageway "just in
case."
"It couldn't have gone off bet-
ter,” said Frazier, a bespectacled,
ruddy faced, stocky man in khaki
I... i and 11 ■ -users.
Once down in the corridor, the
leopard gatheied up his strength
for another display of his leaping
prowes; He bounded onto a ledge,
six feel up from the floot, and
lay down.
Found My Park Cop
A park patrolman found him
there at 2 a m. and sounded an
alarm Heavily armed inen rushed
to the makeshift boudoir and
"I Irelieve that was probably a
factor," Frazier said "Anyhow, lammed tne door
it's that lime of year." 1 Fruxier went down Into the ser-
liut if the I copaibas* still caged j vice entrance a few minutes later
m the pit wa- responsible, she As riflemen covered him, he
gaveiio'igu -nol if infeiest, elth | tuared a lariat onto the leopard
She hadn’t hist unite as much
Interest, though, us the male
beep m a coma that might last as
long u:> 24 hour: lit was carted
off to the /oo hospital, "a vary
■nek animal but secure in u take
no chance steel cage
City Park Superintendent H R
• Pat. Murphy tund the big cat ate
a piece of horse men I loaded with
enough chloral hydrate to kill a
man.
Reflexes Still Good
Dr W D Howennan, sou veter
mariaii, said the animal still hud
good reflexes despite his ctima and
"I’d lie very much urprised if he
dies."
Howerman aid. however, the
leopard was "In a preRy deep
sleep and I gave him two doses of
metrazole lo keep it from getting
any deeper,” He said the animal
still m -.leel lemfnrced shipping
crate where he was placed upon
hi? capture, needed the warmth
provided by the heated quarters in
the zov infirmary
The hungry animal gobbled the
twit, left out especially for him,
a few feet from ltie leopard pit
at the Zoo
Ambles Into Tunnel
Then, as the drug took effect
he ginbicd into ., ci.m tunr
with .i cowboy's skill
The leopard fell to the floor,
and came up with a bleeding nose.
Frazier retreated, then approach-
•-d again from the back door of
the tunnel
Thiee time? he let fly with a 3U
ently didn't even miss turn in his
absence, the leopard may be :«ni
by the public.
The zoo was to be re-opened at
noon, for the first time since Sat-
urday.
Foot Prints Disco v# rad
In his wandering, the leopard
had langeti as far afield as Deep
Fork Creek at a point eight miles
northeaM of the zoo. His footpiints
were discovi mi then unde
Frazier, who was zoo keeper at
Fort Worth, until a tew month*
beck aid 11.• leoperdi would not
i • i Ho wed ..ui in tba open pit un
til the flooi is loweied and the
harrief for spectators is raised
From all over the nation, offers
istanci had nunc fi.iiu big
game hunters looking for a "kill."
Mayor Allen Street of Okla-
homa City -aid tie wa: relieved to
learn of the capture
“I'm e; penally pleased at how
the boy: handled it,” he said. "We
appreciate the nationwide coopet
ation, and I'm thankful there weie
no casualties."
Liun Hunters Join Search
Two professional mountain lion
hunters from Colorado and their
pack of dogs flew here yesterday
foot lariat The third time, he 1 to join the hunt, which developed
Miarett one of the leopard's hack
feet Closing a cage boot between
him and the animal, tie • tartrd
tugging
Catches Him By Tail
Finally, I got him by the tail,
too," Frazier said
Frazier held his anchor lines—
the leopard's tail and the lariat-
while helpers approached the be-
wildered, silent animal from the
fi wiit with a sturdy wooden i rate
"They slipped him into it sort director of the Fort Worth zoo.
of like putting him in an envel- Frazier chased a runaway seal
ope," Frazier said. | seven mile;, down the Trinity Hiv-
Then the zoo keeper latched the « ftno,|y ‘’*P»ured it by la*
barred door of the crate, and ham- I -'***!*• *>•
into a wild -cramble with u tame
ending.
"He was groggy or I never
would have gone m to rope him,"
Frazier said afterward. "This is a
beautiful end to the search—the
most beautiful part being mat we
gut the rat back alive and didn't
have to kill him."
This wasn't the first time Fraz-
ter used his cowboy technique to________ _____
a,J PjM animal While j was so nebulous as to defy precise
~ ‘ i- - - calculation!.
The decree ordering the price
cuts covered a lonr-. list of food
Russia Revalues
Ruble, Cuts Prices
Of Food, Clolhing
Four Rubles
Now Equal To
I U S. Dollar
MOSCOW Feb 28 <UP»—Rus-
sia leva toed the ruble and cut the
prices of food and clothing tonight
Decrees signed by Premier Josef
Stalin and Deputy Premier G. M.
Mali rikov put into effect the Sov-
iet Union's third great economic
readjustment since the war
The reduction in the prices of
foodstuffs and manufactured arti-
cle? ranged from Hi to 14 per rent
Precisely a yeai ago today price
cuts of about the same range were
decreed
The government put the ruble
on a gold basis and stepped up its
relative value to the American dol-
lar The old official rate was 5 3
rubles to the dollar The new is
four to the dollar
The gold content of the ruble
wa.-. established at 0.222Hi8 grams
of pure gold.
• While the old official rate of
exchange was about 20 cents to
the ruble, diplomats in? Moscow
got eight rubies for a dollar. Its
actual value in purchasing power
KOREAN LEADER SEES MACARTHUR
Lawmakers Go Home Wednesday,
Ending Their 30-Day Special Session
2*' 'DP>—Gov | budget appropriation for state hot-
Allan Shivers was scheduled to pital operation and maintenance.
,od? ' state s new Some $6 000 000 of the annual
$15 000.000 omnibus tax bill as the j revenue from the cigaret tax
special session of the legislature would be used to finance a long-
'*,* home stretch range ?tate nospitai building pro-
The lawmakers go home tomor- j gram The special tax would end
row, ending their 30-day stay m seven year
Two other measures were ready j The "< &trh-aU
such as bread miwt
lei 1
inered in two lo-penny nail* to re
inforce the lath "just for good
measure "
The leopard didn't object to
captivity again He lav down m
the box and tried to go to sleep
Murphy and F’razier planned to
push the ex-fugitive out of the
packing crate in1o a cage and in-
side the leopard pit later today.
There, with his mate that appar-
Frazier said the big cat which
leaped from a 20 feet deep pit and
cleared a water moat to escape
on Saturday apparently returned
Eager Visitors Slip Into Zoo 2 Hours
Before Official Opening To See Big Caf
OKLAHOMA CITY Feb 28. i|fP»—Eager visitors at the Lincoln
Hark Z*«i today couldn't wait for the official opening hour to get a
peek it the recaptured leopard
Two hours before the scheduled reopening of the zoo, an attendant
left a gale open and the early bird? began to slip in
Mr and Mr? Donald Beaton of Standish. Michigan, were among
the fir-t visitor? since the zoo was abruptly closed following the esca|ie
three day? ago
I'm sure glad he was taken alive, said Mr? Beaton "After all.
a wild animal like ttial ha- a* much rigid to freedom as a.iythmg elite
Amt mmi .jot id,one tom for getting out
She Mud -he and tier husband, a bar owner, were on a vacation
and organ heal ing so much about the leopard that they decided to stay
over heir two days in hopes of getting to see it
product*.
flour, cereals, in**:, lish, dairy
products and suga* Clothing was
included
As a result of the new redttc-
to the zoo after midnight. Tracks i tionr. the Moscow Radio reported,
were found indicating the male the Soviet people will "gain not
leopard jumped a fence t.. reenter ' U-s? than 80.000.000.00u rubli
the zoo aftei an early evening ram Thus the move shaped up in ef
had stopped falling, Frailer said, feet as a revaluation of the ruble
Crouched On Ledge In December 1847, it was devalued
Herbert Mueller, a park police- '
man, was the first to sigjit the
SY ROMAN RH8I, South Korean president, stands with Gen. Douglas
MacArthur In Tokyo as he arrives on Island for a Japanese-Korean
goodwill vial', stating East West peace talks may be merely a "set-
back" In the current "cold war.” (International}
tax bill is the
kev«tofie financing measure of the
hospital improvement program It
would continue in force for 18
months through the end of the
present biennium on Aug 31, 1051.
Swift Action Taken
The multi-million dollar meas-
ure represents an acrnsf-ttie board
iu per cent hike in the omnibus
tax—a revenue-raising measure
taxing some 19 items langing from
. rude oil to playing cards.
Both the House and Senate took
swift action yesterday on a con-
troversial biU authorizing rural
telephone co-operatives patterned
from a federal law. which prevent*
them from serving a community
of more than 1.500 persons or du-
plicating existing lines
The House passed the co-op bill,
102-2 only 10 minutes after it had
neen approved by the Senate with
10 amendments added.
The Senate also tightened laws
on sex offenders, -ending four
bills to Gov. Allan Shivers tor his
Mgnature. returning a fifth pro-
_ „ ... ' i posal to the House for action on
government over bombing of an am«llUment.
American vessels off Tsingtaa Before approving the co-op bill.
Requests tiave been sent to Gen. | the House had given fmal approv-
Douglas MacArthur s headquar- a| to an appropriation of 81.350.-
b5HiJu Toky? ** *° lh*' 000 for conatruction at the M. D.
con*ul in the Communist Anderson Hospital for cancer re-
held port for full reports on the | search „ Houston, sponftbred by
to be laid before the governor but
it was not known if eithi .
be signed
One was the 17,500,000 permv a
pack cigaret tax.
The other was the $20 000.000
U. S. To Protest
Bombing ot Merchant
Ships OH Tsinglao
Full Reports
On Latest
Incident Asked
WASHINGTON. Feb 28 *INS>
—The United States plans today
to lodge a new and vigorous pro-
test with the Chinese Nationalist
beast which had eluded hundred*
of searchers including battlg-
trained Marines and professional
mountain lion hunters
The beast was crouched on a
ledge over the same animal pit
from which it escaped more than
80 hours before Mueller shined a
flashlight on the animal amt saw
that, although it was awake, it
was groggy He then saw that
;onie of the narcotic baited horse
j meat left to trap the animal was
missing from in front of the pit
Calling another park patrolman,
E. V’ Bradv, Mueller (Hiked .it the
annual with a long pole It fell or
tumped from it: perch onto a ce-
ment sidewalk, bloodying its nose,
but had no fight left
Then the patrolman called Pi u
ier. who caged the animal.
by as much as 90 per cent when
food rationing ended
Effective tomorrow, foodstuffs
in a broad range wilt be cut iu
food prices were
from 20 to 30 per cent.
Clothing prices were out from
10 to 20 per cent, with the biggest
cuts in silk and silk product* Tex-
tile?- were reduced IS per cent
A* is the custom in Soviet re-
porting on economic affairs, ail the
- figured in im-i i entages.
No prices were given.
Cub Scout Pack With Lots Of Capital And
Livewire Ideas Sought, As Jaycee Sponsor
kkMily unziurtan
a-oj Wdl
Junior mum her of Own
latest incident.
At present the State Department
hat only a laconic report from the
master of the Isbrandtsen Lines
Flying Clipper that his vessel has
been "bombed and strafed."
Reports thus far have not indi-
cated the time or circumstances of
the attack Nor has the identity of
the attacking planes been estab-
lished
Sen Searcy Bracewell of Hous-
ton. the bil Ipas passed, 110 to 2.
and sent to the Governor
Park Segregation Paste*
Members of the House approved
a measure authorizing segregation
in the state parks system but re-
quiring equal facilities for whites
and Negroes.
The proposal, sponsored by Sen.
Warren McDonald of Tyler, was
today by the
Commerce at
its luncheon in the Community
Building.
A request by Peter Mooesy for
the Jaycees to ,-ponsor a Cub
Scout |iack drew the following re-
action in the form of a resolution:
Probe Ordered
t>owH Cancer Patient's Husband Tells Court
Usiifo Ilium He Bean No Malice Toward Dr. Sander
Strati
Fire Insurance Rates g[,
Here To Go Up 5
Per Cent March 1
Bon Voyage: Kuniute to St
Mary’s Hospital in RiH-hester,
Minn , is Taylor Ia-«\ oil operator,
lie left Dalias Monday night on
tlie Hock Island Hallway with
Mi? Lee Hi* ailment, a calcium
deposit on the brain, will tie the
concern of Mayo ?(n-ciuhstK for the
next several day* The ties! wishes
of all go with Mr. lav, along with
hope? for hi* speedy recovery.
Parson Jugged: Thrown In the
local pokev Monday night was a
Negro parson' from Tyler. Police
found him preaching to a church
building down In the F’lats and
locked him up for investigation.
His explanation "I fell the luiwd
callin' me to preach and they
wasn't anybody around reptin' the
chuich mi I jes' hauled off and
started preachin' . ain’t noth-
ing wrong with that, now is there.
Mi Policeman?"
"Nope," -aid Chief Dndson, un-
locking tin- cell door, ''You're
free "
Virus Hit* Sid Hurwitz and his
direetiug day* are over on the
Harmony Hunch musical liecause
of hi* condition Sid is down with
virus pneumonia and will not lie
lip and about main enough to
direct Ken iienuett's play to be
shown March 13-14. However, he's
done a great deal toward getting
the show on the road already
Parents Note: Tonight Is hack-
to school session for parents who
will meet with teachers at an
open house in the Elementary
School at 7 INI
CHICAGO SCHOOLS CLOSE
CHICAGO, Feh 28 «UP»—Chlca
go schools will close every Friday
for the duration of the coal short
age. but the Hoard of Education to-
day dimmed junior’s elation by an
nouncing that claaaoa would bo
hold as usual-—via FM radio.
MANl HESTEH. N II . Feb 28
lUP' The husband of the cancer
patient l)r Hermann N Sander is
accused of murdering, testified to-
day that "if the doctor was my
own brother I could not feel more
kindly toward him "
Kcgmald ¥ Hurroto, 85, retired
ml company salesman testifying in
the seventh day of Dr. Sander's
mercy murder trial, recounted un-
der cm** examination the kind-
ness with which the physician
treated his wife Abhie. 59
If Ml - Hill I .ltd had I't-fli 1 >|
Sander's mother or sister lie
couldn't have done more to en-
courage her," Borroto said
"He broufjht hot many gifts," tin-
husband added "On one occasion
he brought her a canary in a cage
complete with all the fitting? She
became very fond of the bird
"Dr. Sunder mude a particular
AUSTIN Feb 28 *UP' — Mem-
bers of the House and Senate to-
day called for an investigation into
the causes of declining tax reven-
! ues from oil production.
Ciladewater fire Insurance agents 1 *to,h restitutions were identical,
have la-en informed that effective Keith Kelly of Fort Worth
March I. all fin.- insurance policies j sponsored the proposal before the
will have a five per cent penalty,; uppei chamber
effort to bring his three little girls *iu*’ u» ,h*' l,a‘< Are '»*wrd of 1949 The lower chamber adopted a
to see my wife because she was i '•* C.ladewater resolution calling for the Tcxa*
fond of children " Fire Chief Dell Honeycutt osti- 1 a^ve Council, a research and
Borroto said that during his mated that there wen- uppruxi- jn'**stigating agency set up by the
wife's long illness of an abdominal mutely 175 fires in Glndewater Icftiatolure last year, to make the
cancer, tie made frequent social 'during 1949, including grass fires, 'uvestigation.
visits to the doctor's home and was Only one or two of the fires were l The council would study "the
invited to dinner He said he be extremely bad. and the bad record basic and underlying causes for the
came from those few, lie said. steadily-declining tax revenues to
Previously, Gladewuter was get- **"' Ktate of Texas from the petro-
U. S. May Give
Away Butter Soon
To Needy Families
WASHINGTON. Fell 28 <UP»—
Agriculture officials suul today
the government may have to start
giving away butter to needy
American tnmilies
The Agriculture Department al-
ready has offered to give away to
public welfare agencies huge
stock? of surplus potatoes, dried
egg.? and dried milk acquired un-
der price support.
The government's price support
hoard also includes $88.tNN).(MN)
pounds ot butter valued at more
than $60.(KHI,(HM) The butter was
bought to bolster dairy price* in
1949 Prospects are the department
soon will have to start buying up
even more butter under its 1950
support program
Thus, officials said, the depart-
ment soon will iiave to start dis-
posing of 1949 stocks.
came a close friend of the 41-year-
old physician and his family.
Dr Sander Is accused of hasten-
ing Mrs Horroto's death Dec. 4
by injecting four air bubbles Into
her veins The defense contends
she was dead of cancer before the
Injections The state claims Dr
Sander said he acted after Horroto
pleaded with Mm to end hla wife's
suffering.
Horroto said late yesterday when
he liegiin testifying a* the state's
eighth witness, that he never had
asked Dr Sander to shorten his I
wife’s life
A neat man with a dry, deliber
ate voice. Borroto sat in the wit-1
ness box and detailed the story of |
his wife's illness
Speaking In well rounded sen-
tences. he said that once hi* daugh-
ter F.lise, 19, who hud been caring
for her mother at home, told her
her weight w.i* down to 80 pound*,
lie said Mrs Borroto replied
"that’s the last time I'll weigh niv-
self "
"She was in pain constantly,"
Borroto said
When she finally went to Hills
borough County Hospital Nov 20.
Horroto said, "we knew it was sim-
ply a question of dnys."
He said Dr Sander called him
at 9 30 p in Dec 3. the night be-
fore Mrs. Hroroto died, and told
him she was not expected to live
through the night Horroto said he
spent the night at the hospital.
Defense Atty K.ilph E. Lang-
dell asked whether Borroto was
In Manchester the evening of Dec
29, the day Dr Sander was ar
retted on a murder charge.
Borroto said he was here then
and during the following month
testified that after Dr Sander was
arrested he searched for Borroto
and could not find him
ting a 15 per cent good fire record
off the state rate, but effective
March I of this year, that 15 per
cent is being lost and an .Aldition-
al five per cent penalty Is being
assessed
All policies which arc taken out
todny will still l>c allowed the IS
per cent off. but effective tomor-
row. the five per cent penalty will
be assessed
leum industry and injury to the
state's economy to determine the
causes and to recommend reme-
dies."
The resolution, sponsored by
Hep Wayne Wugonseller of Fruit-
land. also requested Gov. Allan
Shivers to appoint an unofficial
advisory committee to furnish
technical information and advise
the legislative council.
Attorney For Accused Bank Clerk Arrested
In Tyler Says She Didn't Take The Money
water because of severe lossee la
membership and because ot an
outstanding debt of rather large
size at a local banking institution
and because ‘of our complete ennui
and disinterest in everything we
undertake, we respectfully re-
quest that this Jaycee club be
taken under sponsorship by an
outstanding pack of Cub Scouts.
The club prefers to be sponsor-
ed by a Cub Scout Pack with lots
of capital and livewire ideas. No
drifters need apply."
Jaycee Tommy Baynham intro-
duced the resolution which passed
unanimously
The club then passed another
resolution, as follows: "The Glade-
water Jaycees, because of their
special qualifications to do abso
lutely nothing hereby resolve to
Increase their inactivity from
week to week until the club is do-
ing practically* nothing."
This measure was passed to
"protect members from the high
pressure strain of performing
functions of a civic nature, to pro-
mote laziness and encourage all
members to take life easy ”
The first step taken by the club
was to do away wtih all programs
of entertainment until further no-
tice.
Rev. William J. Hall, newly
elected president, presided and
urged all Jaycees to bring along a
guest for the next luncheon A
motion to impeach him for sug-
gesting any activity was narrowly
defeated and the club decided to
allow member* to bring guests to
meetings
Taylor Jobe was appointed to
contact a stage show to be spon-
sored by the club to raise funds.
This appointment was permitted
only after Jobe assured members
thut the show would be a magi-
cian and that "nothing real would
be accomplished."
The club dispensed with any
further business and adjourned
before Rev. Hall could raise hi*
to U. S. vessels have
freely into Tsingtao and
Tientsin despite the Nationalists
blockade of the entire China coast
The State Department has refused
to recognize this stoppage of high-
seas traffic.
Previous incidents have center-
ed around Shanghai. Destroyer es-
segregation.
weakens our national unity,” he
added, "and leaves the door open
to be applied to other groups later
on."
However. Rep Walter Caven of
Marshall, sponsoring the proposal
in the lower chamber, answered
that it was “a step in the direction
of assuring equal facilities in state
A
corts and gunboats received by the parlts >•
Nationalists from American lend- *~The measure was amended by
the House, requiring its return to
the Senate for concurrence
lease settlements have been
voived in the Shanghai area.
These vessels do not have a
cruising range sufficient to per- Calm Solution
mit them to go far beyond this Acceptance of the co-op bill
point. Tsingtao and Tientsin are marked a cairn solution to what
about twice as far from Formosa had been a troublesome problem,
as Shanghai is. : It had sent House members into a
It is assumed that the planes 23 hour debate that ended last
which earned on yesterday's raids Saturday afternoon,
were from the Nationalist base on HiU Hudson, of Pecoa, head
Formosa. .| of opposition forces, had ihreaten-
The State Department has twice | ed to filibuster against the tela-
before protested attack* on Amer-
ican shipping to the China main-
land. Assurances have been given
that American lives would not
again be endangered a* a result of
enforcing the blockade.
The fact that a seaman was in-
jured in the most recent Incident
presumably will be regarded as
phone bill unless certain changes
were added.
He particularly disapproved of
a provision which he said would
give co-ops "power to confiscate
property of the private telephone
companies.”
However, it was approved at a
morning meeting of the Senate
committee yeatardv
DALLAS, Feb 28 'UP'—An at-1 Mrs. Gaar had been an employee ] hand to bang the gavel.
toroev for a 43 year old divorcin'
charged with embezzlement of
Mercantile National Hank funds
said toil.iv it was "all a $708 mis-
take "
The attorney. Joe H Jones, said
the accused bank clerk, Mrs
of the bank for six years and
worked in the oil department of J
the loan discount section
Jones said Mrs Gaar had gone!
to Tyler to visit her parent* on the
Washington Birthday holiday Feb.
22, and had remained there be-
Gladys Onnr. had not taken any I eaur(. s|„. was stricken with virus
of the bank s money and empha- influenza
sized that she had been in contact
with bank officials during the past
few days when she had to remain
at her parent’s home in Tyler be-
cause of illness
Mrs Gaar was arrested in Tyler
ycsterda> by FBI agents and spe-
cifically charged with the $708 om-
liezzlement, but she waived pre-
liminary hearing, posted $10,000
bond and returned to her Inane
here In Dallas last night
The arrest followed disclosure
by the bank that it had reported a
$54 442 shortage in its funds to the
Federal Reserve Bank examiner
Walter A. Sandlin Sandlin said he
was told ef the shortage last Fri-
day.
"She stayed in check with the
bank during that time and is co-
operating with authorities in the
matter," Jone* said. "She own* her
home here and isn't going to run
away."
Assistant U. S District Attorney
William Cantrell said Mr* Gaar's
case would be presented to the
Federal Grand Jury hi May and
that an investigation into the total
shortage would continue by the
FBI and the Federal Bank Exam-
iners
Examiner Sandlin would not of-
fer any further comment on the
case pending completion of his de-
partment's examination.
Cigarettes 25c
To Texas Solons
AUSTIN. Feb. 2ft. • UP'—Cigar-
ette smoking members of the
House today found the price in-
creased by twice the amount of
the new penuy-a-park tax.
Operators of a cigarette vending
machine in the House foyer—ap-
parently anticipating early signing
of the tax bill by Gov Allan Shiv-
ers—modified their machine to
take only quarters. Legislators who
dropped in their two-bits receiv-
ed three pennies tn change The
old price wa* 20 cents.
PUBLISHED FIGURES WRONG
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2ft UNS*—
Defense Secretary Louis Johnson
declared today that published fig
uros ot Russian military strength
"are wrong."
had stopped them in Chinese wa-|
tors.
The State Department's growing
concern with the Nationalist block-
ade was indicated in the release
of a note sent to Formosa on Feb
3.
It complained that a National-
ist naval vessel had liombarded Is-
brandtsen Line's Flying Arrow
outside Chinese territorial wa-
ters on Jan. 9. However, it said,
the ship was bombarded unnec-
essarily
Mysterious
Fast Moving
Object In Skies
CAMBRIDGE. Mas*. Feb 28
• UP’—A mysterious, fast-moving
object appeared high in the north
cm sky, Harvard Observatory an
tiounced today Astronomers said
it was "way out of the normal belt i
for asteroids" and "hasn't got a
tail like most comets '
“It's one of the moat unusual ob-
jects sighted in the sky in some
time." Dr. Harlow Shapley, direc-
tor of Harvard Observatory, said.
So far, it can only be seen with
a powerful telescope, but within
24 hours we may know a lot more
about it." #
Dr Shapley Mid the object was
discovered by Dr. C. D Shane, di-
rector of the Lick Observatory in
California, and reported to the
cioarinB center for astronomical
information hare
Dr. Shapley said obaarvators in
various parts of the nation are try
Ofifrvt
by three members who worked out
a compromise agreement.
The bills seeking to restrict sex
crimes would inflict heavy penal-
ties for molesting minors under 14,
indecent exposure and enticing
minors under 14 into a place for
immoral purposes.
The Anderson Hospital appro-
priation would make money avail-
able to the University of Texas
board of regents from funds not
allocated for that purpose
The legislature's Houston dele-
gation had tried to bring the An-
derson plait up for consideration
earlier in the session while the
state's emergency hospital program
was being considered
But the legislautre refused to
consider other proposails until last
Thursday when it cleared up its
hospital improvement program.
FORECASTS
EAST TEXAS: Considerable
cloudiness, cooler in interior and
scattered showers in southeast por-
tion this afternoon Partly cloudy
and cooler tonight and near coast
Wednesdav
GLADEWATER AREA Cloudy
to partly cloudy with few .bowers
tonight, cooler tonight. Wednesday
partly cloudy, lowest tonight near
48
TEMPERATURES
Tuesday 8 a. rn 88
Monday maximum 74.
Mondav minimum 53.
ing to nbservg the strange object I SABINE RIVER
•M ffototmlBB Its exact orbit. Tuesday I e. m. 20-28.
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