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BAY8HORE WEATHER-Partly cloudy
and warm through Wednesday with low
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DARWIN, Australia, April *9 —(BA— Australia
granted political asylum Tuesday to Mrs, VaMimir
Petrov, wife ef a confessed Soviet spy, whose aMtoijf.
guards tried to return her to Moscow against her ^er wheii Ute territorial police boarded the plane A# P
oa orders from Measles. ? If f
Jarkov was cut slightly on the head bs(orr he VI I
and the other escort were disarmed. The escorts
left empty-handed for Singapore an hour and 80 HANOI,
minutes later. fenses of
Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Generalov made bis phu sbrar
sr husband had first visit to Parliament House and delivered to the three-quar
at Can- acting external affairs minister a note demanding d ,
im after the return of Mrs. Petrov. tfoTCwt
1 to “ ■- w” “»*■
d aboard their diploma!Ic immunity. _ . ... >
at the later Mensles said in a statement he had direct- ™“£,;aruL
tv. me.- ed , L. Davis. captein of primer, to^torvlow
one of the two Soviet eour
ing Mrs. Petrov, tried to draw his J*
will.
Prime Minister Robert G. Menxles gave freedom
to the bewildered woman after Australian territor-
ial police overpowered and disarmed1' her escorts in
a dramatic struggle st Darwin airport.
Mrs. Petrov, who had believed her :—
been killed after fleeing the Soviet embassy i
brrra and asking asylum, asked to Join hit
a telephone conversation with him assured
By JAMES F. DONOVAN
WASHINGTON, April 20 -UP-.
The FBI said Tuesday the number
of major crimes jumped 6 per cent
last year to a new record high and
warned that criminal acts are in-
i of a square
Mgs. Petrov to detormi
lum in Australia.
Tuesday's ground fighting. But Red
120 mm mortars . and 105 mm
howitzers harassed the defenders
as they dug into their new posi- ■
tiofts and strung new barbed wire,
With the week-end abandonment
of the two French northern outposts
Red gunners were looking down the
road of the garrison in ft* little,
shell-churned valley.
The rebels bold about 3ft) yards
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Schools Here incumbents unopposed
To Co-OperateIN msTEE ELECTI0N
In Experiment
Baytown schools will cooperate
in the Harris County polio serum
inoculation program next month,
and nearly 800 second graders will
be offered vaccination at no cost.
TTiis report was made to school
trustees Monday night by Supt.
George H. Gentry after he attend-
ed a meeting of school officials
and public health officers in Hous-
ton.
The immunization program is
purely voluntary, and no student
will get shots unless the schools
have written permission from
parents.
There will be three shots. A
warned thb
population8 “ 88 *" ««* W*
No candidates except the two incurn.benta a»ked for place, on the It estimated that 2.159,060 major ISSto^anday Onlookers at
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with Mrs. Edna Gray due to be elected for Position No. 1 and I. L. record year was 1952 whtt! the FBI ^pwytog^^ltoL^n the flight that failed.
reported 2.036,510 crimes.
The FBI said its figures were .
SK'S'S.'S Seeks Third Term-
crimes such as arson, sex crimes
other than rape, embezzlement and
carrying concealed weapons.
In its annual report on crime
throughout the United States, the
FBI said the recent postwar up-
turn in major crimes “cannot be
charged to an increase in popula-
tirvrv olnnft ’*
with Mrs. Edna Gray due to be elected
Kellogg for Position No. 2.
Mrs. Gray wUl assume her second term and Kellogg will begin
serving a third term. t
Holdover members of the board are A. R. ytark, M. W. Harper, J.
W. Pyle, Harry F. Hartman and J. I. Huh
School Briefs
Cedar Bayou Junior
High Is Now Official
tion alone.
‘Crime is outstripping population
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Shivers To Run Again
Packed within the
area were 11,000 French
soldiers, dependent for su
reinforcements enti
chute drops which
fully' aimed at the
narrowing defense
Against them are
, . .. ,mU AUSTIN. Tex., April 20 -UP- in 1952. That year he broke with Shivers hss been governor since S*-------
fate of growth 4 to 1. it said. Gov Allan Shivers put himself up Democratic candidate- Adlai E July 11, 1949. blasted but still open roods leading
Our population increased 5 per for a third elected term as Texas’ Stevenson and led theconservative Friends of Reuben Senterfitt, from jj,e Ped Chinese frontier,
rent and rrlme iitmned ft) ner rent -l;_. _______.........a... isw.. • let* sneaker of the Tevm House. tried _ . ’
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administered. It now is
that the booster shot will not come
until after school is out, but ar-
for the youngsters after the vaca-
tion Starts.
Gentry told the board he was
told that it would not be absolutely
mandatory that the third shot be
obtained, although it is recom-
mended.
Harris County has been chosen
as one of the spots to initiate the
program because of the prevalence
of polio in this area in recint
years. This entire program is be-
ing sponsored by the National
h cent and crime jumped 20 per cent chief executive yesterday, after a faction of Texas Democrats into speaker of the Texas House, tried
Baytown school trustees Monday their children at the new school since 1950.” weekend of speculation he might the Republican fold to vote for to put his name on the ballot Moo-
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were rebuffed
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Governor Busy Man-
two and after wither four week pave the way for complete merger tended one of the others previous- nation's largest city, led the cqftn- “I will be a candidate for re- ond time the GOP has captured But they were rebuffed because „.Ze*iL“e
Iap’®'T. j. of Baytown and Cedar Bayou ly. He stressed that no student- try fo tj,e number of major crimes election as governor of Texas, sub- Texas’ electoral vote,
ministered, it now is ceixa n oh* s,. »ir^v enrolled or at- committed within its jurisdiction ject to the action of the Democratic
who has already
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school systems.
By unanlmoi
vote, the board tended one of the other schools
committed within its
last year With Chicago second in primary on July 24. 1954,” Shivers’
1954-1955 term. These plans cal!
for operation of an elementary
and junior high school at Cedar
Bayou and transfer of the senior
high students to Robert E. Lee.
This move had been more or less
promised prior to the consolida-
tion election and has been expect-
ed since that time, but Gentry
asked the board to make the move
official.
A few physical ireadjustments
Grid Star
Del Homme
Picks Texas
most categories of criminal acts, statement said.
The FBI said, however,its sta- Shivers, 46, who will have served
tistics do not reflect a true city- longer than any other Texas gov-
by-city comparison because of dif- eFnor‘ wtlen his present term ex-
fering local circumstances under P‘res m January, left Austin for
which crimes are recorded and on Jwo days 15 minutes before the
which the rpeort is based. brief state
which the rpeort Is based. briefs’
But according to the report, New
York hadI 321 murders in 1953 while ^ “ ^mmdTeiMhe
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis wj|] be necessary at Cedar Bayou
and is being financed by the he sai(J
March of Dimes. Cedar Bayou elementary school
The program has also been ap- lg growing at a record clip, he
proved by most medical societies, po,nle<1 out> and it wil, ^ neces.
including the Harris County Modi- u(y next t#fm ^ p|ace Kme of
cal Society. _ the elementary sections to rooms
Only second Krade s u that have heretofore been occup-
quahfy for the riiots The tes^^ is jpd ^ Jun,or Wfh Ichoo, clu„,
Mufht^masi oroductiorr of the Formar high school classrooms, 'of
“’j”*”" «"“■ a‘- .O.H
Volunteer medical workers will like to operate the new junior high
acfminister the serum and other
volunteer! will handle the paper
work as records of each inocula-
tion *$11 be made in the study.
Sun Spots
VPW To Plan Meeting
THE BAYTOWN post of Veterans
of Foreign Wars will make plans
for the annual district meeting to
b« held in Baytown May 1 at its
meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the
YFW hall on Decker drive. Pre-
parations for the poppy sale on
May 14 and 15 will also be discuss-
ed.
Brother In Race
REP. GEORGE hr. Hinson, who
recently filed as a candidate for
lieutenant governor of Texas is
• brother to Horace Mann Prin-
cipal W. D. Hinson. Rep. Hin-
aon. a resident of Mineola, made
a talk in Pasadena Saturday. He
was co-author of the original
8699 teacher pay increase hill
submitted to this session of the
Legislature.
school just as the other, two in the
system are operated. He said fur-
ther that he hoped to operate Ced-
ar Bayou junior high next year
without any boundary lines be-
tween Mann and Cedar Bayou.
He said he hoped that there
would be voluntary enrollment at
the new junior high and had been
told some parents plan to enroll
Ixmls Del Homme, the mos,
sought-after schoolboy football
lineman in Texas, announced
Tuesday morning that he will
enroll next fall at the University
of Texas.
Ta make It official and for-
mal, he signed a letter of Intent
which the .Southwest Conference
has Instituted, and even if the
youngster changed his mind he,
' could not enter another confer*
enoe school and be immediately
eligible.
Del Homme was one of the co-
eaptains of the 1955 Rob*rt E.
Lee team, and he won all-state
recognition at center. He started
the season st center on the Gan-
der tenm, but later moved to
right tackle to stiffen the Gan-
der line. He was a great Hne-
bercker on defense.
The other co-captalns. Full-
hack Jim Morris, has cast his lot
(See Louis—Page Two)
Chicag° had 291 . ^‘roitm Hirn, ^
arid1 Washington, D. 0% each.
3V2 KSSiS 32TSF& WfifW
land’sm787tW Y°rkS 8 890 ^ Cle,L" problmS: wa*(’r« crime and hos
The FBI estimated that 4 million Re-election would put Shivers in,
persons throughout the country a dominant position for the 1956
were arrested tor crimes other than presidential campaign, as he was
traffic violations during 1953, It
HOUSTON, April 29-flfl-Gov. Allan Shiveri was embarked on a
busy, week of public appearances Tuesday.
Gov. and Mm. Shivers drove to Houston Monday for the wedding
tement was issued of former state Sen. Weaver Moore and to attend the Houston Pwss
Kira's -are
~ ------ -------lraders lunch, and wUl spend Tuesday night at Magnolia Hills, the
Shivers' country home near Woodvllle In Tyler osunty.
Wednesday, Shivers wUl speak to the Beaumont Rotary Ciuh at
noon, to the Texas A and M muster oeremony at College Station at
4.30 p.m., and return to Austin that night.
They will go to San Antonio Friday for a South Texas Press As;
Huristion lunch ami to attend the battle of flowers parade. Saturday,
he wUl be In Rockdale for dedication eerrmonles of a new Aluminum
Co. of America plant, and then attend a meeting of the Democratic
state committee at Dallas later that day.
based this estimate on the fact
that 1,174 cities participating in its
survey reported 1,791,160 separate
arrest* during the year*. y,.
Experts To
Discuss
Pollution
Mobile X-Ray Unit Coadng Here
Jaycees, Service League Sponsor Program
french airstrip. Another auxiliary *
airstrip to the south has been criss-
crossed with Red trenches.
French officers said Communist
Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, now plans
to pufh his trenches and burrows
down the airstrip from his positions
in the northern end of the held in
an attempt to choke oil French
Supplies. .
*’i lYiey said that ««ch advance
‘ ’ made hy the Reds on the vital air*
atrip reduces the drop zone Jor per*
Jchute reinftfnwments.
The French said the rebels hold
Youth's Arm Shattered By
Accidental Shotgun Blast
Baytown kids were rough on
their arm* between 4 and 7:30 p.m.
Monday.
Twe broke their arms in falls
off horses, one sprained a wrist
in a “chicken” game on roller
skates and another had his right
arm shattered by a blast from a
shotgun.
Most seriously injured is Tommy
Piato, 15. whose right upper arm
was Shattered when his gun was
accidentally discharged. Tommy
said he and Johnny Bush 13. son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bush of
Tri-City Beach Road, had gone on
overnight squirrel hunt. The
Tommy is under treatment at Bay-
town hospital.
Tomas Wayne Sims, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Sims of 1^13 Oak,
said he, his brother and some oth-
er childfen' were skating when
someone yelled “chicken” and
knocked him down His wrist was
badly sprained. He was treated at
Baytown hospital.
Five Baytown Refinery repre-
sentatives will attend the 1954
Southern Industrial Wastes con-
ference scheduled to begin
Wednesday at the Shamrock hotel.
They aye S.„0. Brady, represent-
ing research and development: D.
M. Haas, engineers; H. L. Ellend-
er. process; B. S. Greenwood, tech-
nical service; and E, V. Erxleben,
oil conservation.
Air and water pollution, their
causes and abatement measures
will be studied from every angle
during the three-day meeting.
Sponsors of the conference are
and
The Houston - Harris County ulcd In the junior «nd senior high
Tuberculosis association mobile x- schools through Mrs. Sadie May-
ray Unit will mnkr its annual visit field, county public health purse,
to Baytown Friday and stay for and school authorities. Coverage
more than a week. of area food handlers is being ar-
The unit will move each day so ranged by Odis Mucnnink, city
’ that all Baytonians can come for sanitarian.
x-rays at
locations.
the most convenient
The unit and its staff will be as-
sisted by the Baytown Service
League and the Baytown Junior
Chamber of Commerce. Mrs! Bry-
son Filbert and Ed Panowich are
handling details of the project for
the two organizations.
The x-ray service is being schecf-
Thr
now
x-ray unit will he at the
from 11 a.m. to 7:30 pjn. Friday.
Henke and Plllot’s, from 19
a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.
Horace Mann from 8:39 a.m.
to 12 noon and at Carver from
1 to 3 p.m. on Monday.
Baytown Junior high from
8:30 a.m. to It noon and at Cedar
...... . ■_—. Xtbel^tlJ
one-fourth of the airstrip but the
Communist Indo • Chinese radio
claimed half of the runway had
been aeized In action that knocked
out three French union battalions,
There was a lull in the ground
fighting, indicating that Giap is re*
grouping for the final all-out at-
tack expected this week.
But fighting
River delta at Hai
the Bui Chu region, the French
high command said.
In
heavy losses,’
Ba.vou school from 1 to 8 p.m. on
Tuesday.
Robert E. Ice from 8:30 am.
to 3:10 p.m. Wedneoday, April
”8.
West Baytown port office from
19:30 am. to 5:10 pjn. April 29,
Rig Chief store from 10 am. to
1 p.m. and at Culpepper's from
2 to 5 p.m. Friday.
Culpepper’s from 10 am. to 4
p.m. Saturday. In bitter clashes at Hai Duong,
Adults will pay 60 cento for their both sides suffered ’’heavy losses,“
x-rays and children will pay 25 a French officer said, adding that
cents. Anyone over six years can patrols later found ft) dead rebels
be x-rayed, but children from six “
aged in the Rad
lai Duong and in
^ ’2 ** "Sevtrt looae*" ware reported
, adults. Disrobing Is not required!. from fisblin( jn jj* Bul q,u ^
the field.
“Severe losses’’
Stella Jeanette Bird. 8, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Bird
ir Bayou.
Memorial hospital with a brokeh
elbow after her horse ran under a
By WILLIAM D. LAFFLER
United Press Staff Correspondent
Ruusia’s Supreme Soviet assem-
bled in the Kremlin Tuesday to
Motor Holiday
3AN JACINTO Day is also meter Zu^'clip 3“i^'g^ riip^d-
and while Tommy was replacing
it. the gun suddenly fired. He is
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
holiday in Baytown.
It will not be necessary to feed
th« meters with nickels to park
on Baytown streets all day
Wednesday. Police Chief H E.
McKee said.
Spring Concerts
DATES FOB spring concert* of
two Baytown choirs were an-
nounced Tuesday by’ their di-
lContinued on Page Twe)
Around Town
ODKNA CHILDERS talking ahoi::
a proposed trip to Boston that she
sod Anna Johnson have been dis-
cussing . . . Jerry and Ronnie
Garrett pleased as punch with
their new dog. Major . . . Martha
Lilly and Sun Staffer Sue Jones
away in Colorado three two weeks
seeing the sights in an curly vaca-
tion.
Helen Hardesty goes back to
work and finds herself with a
short week, with a San Jacinto
Day holiday . Jun Bond work-
iag hard on plana for the Aggie
Master . . . Mr*. Charlie Sellgman
rushing around getting her cookie
pans ao the can send the Junior
Suck to artrort wtth Mont* hairing
ptOdOCL
La Porte Mayor H. D. Burgin
ta a Dying (figuratively speaking)
trip to California this week to
the Southern Assn, of Science
Industry, the 'Texas Chemical
Council and the Manufacturing
Chemists Assn. f
The program includes outstand-
ing experts in the air and water
pollution abatement fields.
Some of them are Dr. W. E.
Rand, director of research at Stan-
ford Research Institute; Dr. C. N
Sawyer, professor of sanitary
. . „ chemistry at MIT; L. F. Warrick.
tree iimb and dragged her off. Al- senior „ahitary engineer with the Paiuce but there was no indication bomb,
so in San Jacinto is Lis Ladewig, ^ g Public Health Service: and ,hat be would go to the rostrum An anxious
12, whose horse shied and threw F' A Thnml, rhipf nf air Muu- before the end of the week when ed Malenkov’
her off. She has a broken atm.
Lois is the daughter of Mr. and
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Foreign Roundup-
Malenkov Gives 'State Of Nation' Report
during the French union mopmp op-
erations.
In Laos, French troops scored t
major victory hy reopening an im-
portant 124-mile stretch of road be-
tween Savannakhet and Tchepone.
kov. domestic policies and problems,
Malenkov attended the‘opening but digressed long enough to say
session in the Kremlin's granda that Russia had the nydrogen
major policy, speeches are to be on the eve of the Geneva confer-
made. ” ence on Far Eastern affairs.
Malenkov last spoke to a Su- It was certain that Malenkov
s highest would comment on the war
and American.
John Foster Dulles'
defensive union of
It W8
bled in the Kremlin Tuesday to prem(. soviet — Russia's highest would wm
hear another ’’state of the nation" legislative bodv - last August. He Indo-ChSia
speech by r.-truer Georgi Malen- talked for five hours, mostly on tary of SU'
lioies and prob:
the
Plato
of Tri-City Beach Road.
Mrs.'Morris W. (HootI Ladewig
who live on the Istre Ranch at
North Main and Coadv Road.
U. S. Public Health Service: and
F, A. Thomas, chief of air pollu- before the end of the week when
tion studies for the Tennessee
Valley Authority.
SUte Joh
proposal for a defensive union
free Asian nations.
Izveslia, the government news-
paper, set the stage for a blast
against the United States’ efforts
(Her Farelg*—Page Tw»)
Anii-Carker
KS Pamphlets
Mailed Out
Corporal Informed
Barbers Hill OK's Teachers On GIs, Says Aimy
Salary Increase Still Not Decided
AM 20 teachers of the Barbers cumbent George Mill* and
Hill school district have been
unanimously re-e leered by the
Barbers Hill school board, but It
Isn’t definite yet If they will get
the benefit of the state's 8402-pay
raise for teacher*
Members of the board employeu
the teacher* and discussed the
raise Monday night at a regular
meeting. Trustees apparently are
in favor of extending the raise to
the system if funds are available
The district has been paying 8300
ibove the old state scale.
The results of the April 8 trustee
ret ton were canvassed end In-
WASHINGTON, April 20 -UP
The Army offered the transcrip:
D*1* of a Communist propaganda broad-
Tilton were declared elected to the cas. Tuesday in an effort to show
board, that Cpl Edward S. Dickenson was
Joe E Matthews was re-elected an informer and collaborator while
president of the board and Joe F a prisoner in Korea.
Pres nail waa re-named vlce-presi- Col. C- Robert Bard, chtef prose
dent Pert Irish was
chosen as secretary.
A <gntract with Dayton to in-
sirua'Barbers Hill Negro echo
iastlcs was approved Ur return
for Instructing the 00 children
Barbers HW will pay Dayton
8A000 and provide transportation
for the sdbrtasdc* Dayton will
also receive the state per capita
fund. -T
once ssain c<*tor in court martial of the youny
Crackers Neck. Vs., soldier, prom
i$ed he would prove a direct con
lectioo between the broadcast am
:be defendant. ,
QUICKIES . . By Key Beyartd
his daughter. Mr* SUM*
right, hack here while her
i ships out again with the
Max Sou by. replete with
plans far the
TMrd Arrest Made In San Antonio Fraud
SAN ANTONIO. April » -UP- UA QatomtotionT V A Lockhart
The FBI announced Tuesday R had Two others charted at the case
arrested a third perm charged to - Ralph V. HaU. former chief ef
c<—section with alleged “wide- contract Ltspectors st For San
spread fraud in gmreiwt coo- Houston, and Baa's brother-in-law.
tract” at area military installs- Lae Davis, a pated company peexi-
ttens. dent — arc feat on S2.9M bond*
Latest to be arrested was Mar- Ch >* said Langley sDegedly
via Page Langley. JO-ycar-oid San paid a bribe to an undterlcasri sum
Asianto paint contractor, an chart- to Hail to coanecttoa with a UI JT
•s o< bribery sad of film* a false contract in 1952. A second charge
atefeto -
FBI agent in charge M P Chiles
mid Langtry was irmiadad to fed rapt
to Hsu of a.m head set on ha dm ■
Baytonians this week began re-
ceiving in thier mall boxes a Ufe-
yaVing message on early detection
of cancer as an educational high-
1,ght of Cancer Crusade month..
Some 13.000 pamphlets listing
(he seven danger signal! of can-
cer are being mailed this week by
the American Cancer Society in
East Harris County, it was re-
ported by Hugh Stewart, chairman
of the mailing committee.
In Harm County the cancer so-
ciety operates with funds supplied
by the United Drive aod there is
no direct solicitation tor funds. Re-
search. education and assistance
in the care ot patients are the
major roles played by tee agency
in combatting tee disease which
each day takes the lives of ap-
proximately 820 Americans
In the year 1963 the lives ot 73,-
000 persons afflicted hy cancer was
saved hy early detection and treat-
ment. the society estimates
These are the seven danger sig-
nals: Any sore that daw not heal.
ft frwwp or uDusttil
bieedinft or dfschurgt, *ny chaafe
to Heart or mote, ptriifteftt i»
digestion or difficulty in swallow-
ing. persistent hoarseness or cough
3*1 any -hange normal bwrel
■otte*
Driver Picks
To Have
Herbert Wama Chppa. U00
Dm, these the wrong car ter a
traffic sectoral tut night
After hto car crashed Me the
•toe of thr other ear at Law aad
(tocher Drives, ha was charged
with Wing drunk an
ss
to yield right at way
Thert
) ether ear
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