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27 Are Killed in Airliner Crash
S&rion Ingram, farmer from. Henrietta, Texas, visits with his seven-
year-aid daughter. Shirley, at Bngham Hospital IB Boston. Mass.
Shirley was stricken with a heart ailment which could not be curea
ar their home. Her father cashed ali his assets and drove his truck
to Boston with his wife. Shirley and two other children. He keep*
* 24-hour vigil over the -child by staying in his truck ponced outside
at the lump*;ah (NEA TELEPHOTO*
WALUET FOUND
RUSH TO FIRES
milrt has been brought to
Breckenridge American
office by Bobby Skinner. Owner
■tap have same by describing it
Chief Eason today was
, no tittle concerned over peo-
ple itii Min^ out and running a—
head of hint when the alarm soun
ded lit enRtton with the motor-
cycle-truck collision on East Wal-
ker.
He said people seemed to be
to beat him. but it was
darting out in front of him
frightened him. Sometimes,
also the people caused a near jam
at Ana. He asked that the way
: instead of blocked when
sirens sound
Price Appraisal
Of Water Co. Is
Considered
SCHOOL IN MEED OF
ADDITIONAL TAX TO
RE ASKEO
With the election coming up on
January 6 on the proposed million
dollars worth of bonds, M. E.
Daniel said today that on a trip
to Ft Worth this weekend he con-
ferred with appraisers with re-
ference to the price set by the
Community Public Service Com-
pany. whi-.h the local leaders of
the new supply movement consid-
ered too high.
The bond issue of a million dol-
lars is suggested in order to have
funds to do one; of three things.
Spa the water impounded in. the
lake to be constructed south of
town, or buy the local water .com-
pany. or distnoute water in com-
petition to them.
Recently the city commissioners
and the' Chamber of Commerce
Rainfall In City
Small; Storms
In Vest Texas
l i'i vSj-l'; '
CORRECTED TOTAL FOR
WEEK MERE IS .57
SINCE SUNDAY
Rainfall early today added only
n trace to the fall of the past few
days at the Airway* Commumcu-
i tion Station, and .US at the Cu n-
i munity Public Service Station,
i here in town.
j Com-.'ted reading received from
! the Airways Communication S<.i-
1 tion th^ morning'was .37 inches
! (or the week, the report of -iW
jts'erday being in error.
Both windstorms and hail storms
were reported in West Texas yes-
terday.
One person was killed and two
were injured one critically, when
a tornado struck in West Texas
near Roscoe late Wednesday.
Mrs. Aivis Minton was tatally
injured when the twister demol-
ished her Nolan County home,
.mntoii was gravely injured and
the couple s nine-y ear-out aaugu-
ter. Sherry, suffered a broken ie^
ana timer injuries.
I he tornado cut a swath three
miles long and 100 yards wide
killing or injuring sheep and cat-
tle. uprooting tretfs and destroying
fences.
The homes of J. F, Black and
Bruce Newton in the Champion
community were demolished.
'i'he Minton home was on the
Rose Daniels' ranch, eight mites
south of Roscoe.
The Mineons were found IfH>
yards northwest of their ruined
house by two neighbors, Virgil
Walker and R. H. Bennett The
tornado struck, about 5 {* m. and
Mrs. Minton died at 1uK>.
Telephone lines and other com-
munications were hard-hit by the
wind Telephone tines were out
between Blackwell and MaryneoL
Both Blaekwell and Maryne&l had
heavy had which -caused damage
to business and residential prop-
erty.
Floyd Craig, former near Blak-
well, said he had measured hail-
stones- and found them to be from
Breckenridge
American
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PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPT
in circumference.
Senior High Top |
Students Being
Determined
GRADUATES TO NUMBER
A ROUT 100. SAME
AS LAST TEAR
. Leading students in the -Brock-
enriftgp Higs School, the valedic-
torian and selutatorian. will be ;fc-
termined within the next two or
three days. It was said today thai
Principal Doyle Graves is working
out the records.
Which reminds that the closing :
days ef school are almost hem.*.
First to hold closing e.xerviiS^s 1
will be the Booker T. Washington
school on Friday evening May 24.
The baccalaureate sermon will j
be preached by Rev. Amos Myers
Sunday evening May 26. the prog-
ram starting at 8:30 o'clock. Other
ministers who will have a part oa
the program are Rev. Truman
Aldredge, Rev. Edgar Graham
and Rev. E. R. Stanford
It was estimated today that
there will be approximately 100
to graduate from the high school,
about the same number as last
year. Junion High wilt graduate
approximately 120, about the same
number as last-year.
junior High graduation exer-
cises will be held Monday evening
May 27, followed by Senior High
Corpus Christi. the second city in Texas to feet Lite weight of a strange malady, starts to cleanup the I
city as a preventative measure. First on the list c-itne garbage and refuse which is usually dumped near
the outskirts of the city. Here, a worker spreacfe oil on a pile o£ rubbish before he sets fira to it Oil" if ! uPPeared likely today when labor
Tractor Drawn,
Wagons Reach
Broken Bodies
VICTIMS ARE BURNED
BEYOND RECOGNITION
IK DENSE WOODS
RICHMOND, Va. May 16 tUJS—
A chartered airliner, operating
without any federal supervision
whatever, crashed in dense wootU
five mites from Rkhmond today,
kilting the 25 passengers and crew
of two.
Mast of the bodies were burned
beyond recognition as the old
two engined C-4T transport—saia
> to have been a bucket-seat model
; such as the army used during the
| war—caught fire after the impact
had torn and twisted it to a ruined
- heap of metaL
The plane, owned by the Viking
- Airlines of Glendale, Calif was
I reportedly en route from Newark.
N. J., to Miami, Fla.. on a char-
tered flight •
The blackened and broken bod-
ies could be reached only by tnt -
tor-drawn wagons that bulldozed
their way across soggy farm lunii,
1 softened by days of intermittent
rain.
The pitot took off from the Rich
mond airport but 40 mites south
of the city radioed the field con-
trol tower he was having engine
trouble and was returning.
The weather was bad. and re-
gular commercial airliners by
that time had already messaged
all pilots to bypass Richmond
Federal Seizure
Of Railways Seen
WASHINGTON, May 16 u;.m -
Federal seizure of the nation's
railroads within the next 24 hours
used to insure its complete destruction when it is burned
eight hi nine antTon&^If iashu* [-graduation Tuesday evening:-£MMt
The county home demonstration
agent has announced the follwing
new books as available Cor rearf-
lng- This is the last in the series
have had before them the offer to rt>' four fading lists. The list this
, sell by the Community Public
; Service company, after the two
week is on biography and includ-
es five books of outstanding nat-
JftSTEW order of the day in draft-
ing men for military service
has put the local draft board in
of being unable to meet
(tor men oi this month,
o direct instructions
rc-arived newspaper re-
ports are being followed This is
that men under twenty
over that cannot be-
Under this regulation the
has been scraped
could not agree on a price for wa- j ionar interest. Patrons are invited
ter to be purchased by the COm- 1 to ra^e advantage of this privi-
munity Public Service Company. ! '*** afforded through the coop-
The water bond election will be . erau°n of the tome Demonstra-
followed in two days by the elee- tion Agenf and the public. The
tion on the prposed 25 cents in-1 books in the list arc as fot-
>-reuse in the school tax rate. i Ibws:
James G Harrell. president of Great American Negroes by Ben
the school board has declared that j R-'hantson; Papa Was A Preacuer
if the present standard of the local j Alyene Porter; Pope Plus XII
school system is to be maintained -bV Dees Van Hock; Soldier of
Spa City Fights
trange Disease
S
Eugene B. Hawk of S. M. U. wilt
be the speaker to the High School
students, James G Harrell. presi-
dent of the school board to pro-
sent the diplomas. This program
will also start at 8:30 o'clock.
^HmersMedTp
Arbitrate Coal
Strike Demands
more money must be had else
Breckenridge teachers will be tak
Democracy (Eisenhower) by Ken
neth Davis; This Truman by
~rn.m\ en by other schools paying higher j McNaughton and Hehmeyer.
salaries
Pyle was called to
Mineral Wells today because
of the illness of his son, Billy
Don. The son has been associated
with a boy that died of the mal-
ady reported front South Tesas
and the parents arc uneasy. Pyle
is associate publisher of the Brecit
American.
Kthis country were suddenly
ailed upon to drfend itseU with
the military and naval resources
now at- its disposal, it would not
be ready to take the field effec-
tively for many month*. If the
were compelled to rely
their present available man-
their strength would be
ite for war with hut
• second-rate pawer. These are!
tate admitted by both navy and:
ww departments, emphasized by •
the President as Cimunander in \
Chief of the Armv and Navv
to the face of them, little other! the state from Meadvtlle to Wit
is required on the draft I liamsport including oil-producing
act passed by both hou-' counties.
Congress. Except tor the j Shoemaker also notes that mun-
tn retaining draft boards in icipalities in the "Dutch" area led
the possibility of later! other municipalities in the per-
relief, no good reason centage of total population em-
enccting Che new law - ployed Reading. Htarisburg, Lan-
i caster. Tork and Atientown rate^
; more than 40 per cent
la superb confidence in j
theee who feet
wUI beatj
It might be well
serenity with
a
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH
TOPS IN CITY FINANCES
STATE COLLEGE. P&, IUJ9 —
The Pennsylvania "Dutch', belt
where the population is noted for
its "Industriousness and thrift,"
has the soundest munirtpat credits
in the state
The Wwanrtnt condition of the
belt, which extends from Cham-
bers burg to Easton, is revealed by-
Benjamin H. Shoemaker 3rd. in a.
report in a recent issue cl
"The League of Cities." published
in co-operation with the Institute
of Local Government, Pennsylvan-
ia State CbUege.
The "Dutch' "belt according to
Shoemaker, has commanded the
best credit ratings and the lowest
rates of interest on bond issues.
Second to the "Dutch" belt is the
area in the northwestern part of
The Masons ot * ay Land Lodge
No. 342 at Chddo have extended
an invitation to- the Veterans of
World War No, 2 from the
district along with their wives,
mothers and' fathers to an evening
of entertainment, 8 p, m. May 17
at the Masonic Hall.
A good program b promised,
with the speaker being a veteran
returned from serv'ce overseas.
Refreshmnts will be served ac-
cording to T. A Downing, com-
mittee chairman.
HEREFORD GERMANY. May
16 <UJS— British army headquar-
ters issued a statement tonight
which said the "so catted German
■ army" in the British occupation
i wne consisted of Xam men-alt
of 36,000
disarmed and in prison
HLLO, T. H.—Quin./.e-protiucing
cinchona trees, nurtured from
seeds flown front. Babian to Aus-
tralia in one of the last Amer-
ican planes leaving: the Philippines
m IM2, are reaching maturity
here. Carefully protected by fed-
eral and territorial govern ntente,
6,000 of the young trees are grow-
ing in a 20-acre plot on the Bania-
kua coast of the Island of Hawaii.
Experts are reported satisfied with
the progress of the project, but
must wait until the spring of 1947
before the cinchona bark can be
tested for its quinine content
SWIMMING POOLS ARE
CLCSED AND OTHER
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN
MINERAL. WELLS, May 16 —
At a meeting of the Mineral Wells
School Board Tuesday night mem
bers voted unanimously to con-
form completely with the recom-
mendations of the City Health
Department during the pending
scare of Dolio and encephalitis, operators.
that is prevalent over the stats I I*®* him that their nego-
WASEHNGTON, May 16 <U.R)--
President Ttuman today asked the
deadlocked miners and soft coat
operators to submit dispute to arb-
itration.
The President announced his re-
quest at a news conference after
talking briefly with John: L. Lewis
president of the mine union, and
Charles O'Neill, representing the
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Toland Selected
ForBoysState
LEGION MEMBERS WILL
INITIATE LARGE NUMRER
TONIGHT
management negotiations broke
down again.
Alvanley Johnston, president of
the brotherhood of locomotive en-
gineers; said after a futile -i>
minute conference with the car-
riers that the strike set tor Sat-
urday "will come off as sure- as-
shooting."
President Truman has «>irf he
would seize the lines to avert a
crippling strike.
The strike has been set by
Johnston's union and the brother-
hood of trainmen headed by A. F.
Whitney.
. T_. _ _ . , . tfatfons had collapsed and that
stated W A. Ru* supeontendent furtfter would be -^tess.
He stated that board had or&r- ^ XcumaIt ^ he then pco_
ed ail extra cumculwn or gather- L and £ern
ings car.-cettedfor this wee^-«r| to report fts-sk to him late this fur a week and ic was recommend-
Travis Toland, son of Hug!".
D. Toland of Breckenridge has
been selected to cepresent Breck-
enridge in Boys State to be held
at Austin June 9-16
G L. Keahy. chairman of the
committee of the American Legion p-—. vnft|r 14r„v T(t
on this matter, said that Travis ^ ' . T~
was selected from ten or fifteen >1*
candidates under consideration. So i . ^ . . . . n c osure ot
close was the race that the schol-j
arship record finally determined1 fB_ 1 prevent filibus-
the selection. „ ' • fi
U. S. proposal was made
The boys will govern the state
tions—this inducted the Senior-1
Junior banquet for this Thursday |
night and a band concert schedttl- j
left to discuss his proposal with
their respective organizations.
Unusually serious and openly
ed for Sunday at the Community ^ £
From Australia, the seeds were
flown to Washington, D. G.. and
the Department of Agriculture
germinated them at the Beltsville, ... _____
Jtd.. experiment station. They were I inS taat there wa* reason for
then planted at Glendale, Sfd.
Center.
Examinations of students will be
made daily in all schools.
Dr. E. F. Yeager, City Health
Officer, stated Wednesday morn-
Bethlehem «*as sixth with 369
per cent.
Sheriff Ouic
robbed EW-
BOYS KINGS OF STATE FAffi
Dallas, May 16—School-age ex-
hibitors of livestock will be king*
of the show the first four days of
the State Fair of Tfexa* to- be
held in Dallas Oct 3-20, with aU
barns and P"B placed at the dis-
posal of *-H. Future Farmer, and
other youthful showmen.
R. L, Thornton, president of the
State Fair Mnciaffon, announced
th I m - -- V t- -
mis ween tnat tne Junior Live-
stock show would be held Oct M
with the senior division following
on the th stated that this
«a
tm bOWum* of both
After a year's growth, the seed-
lings were flown to Hawaii for
study and transplanting. After in-
vestigation* the Hamakua coast
tract was selected as the best pos-
sible site for maturing the seed-
Bagsi
Transplonting was done in five
under the direction of Robert
Pahau, superintendent of the Kona
Experiment Station of the Univer-
sity of Hawaii. Elaborate prepara-
tions included treatment of the soil
with tear gas and other chemicals
to insure safe planting.
The capture of cinchona-pro-
ducing areas in the Far East by the
Japanese, ami severance of Allied
supply lines, resulted in a military .. . _ . _ .
crisis for the quinine-short Allies.! wa^er earned the germs.
Faced with a long war in tropical although swimming may assist as
areas, research for quinine substi- J a carrier of the germ, the water,
tutes was intensified and resulted i to the brain. As a precaution
in development of atabnne. , however, cities have closed their
swimming pools. Just tike some
have closed the schools where an
epidemic prevails. Dr. Yeager
stated
people to become panicky, but Just
be - areful and use necessary pre-
cautions with tneir children white
the emergency exists.
He also stated that unless a case
showed up here this week among
our young people or one was
brought *n from some other com-1
munity, that a normal routine
could continue next week without i
an appreciable danger.
He also stated that physicians)
were almost sues that the virus
disease was a combination of pol-
io and erxephalities—affecting the
brain. Some, believed it comes
from the fly. other mosquitoes or
insects. It is doubted by many.
tion was in "desperate straits' ,
because of the work stoppage in
coaL
He proptaed to the miners and
the o pet a tots that each side sub-:
mit their basic differences to .in
arbitrator, with the miners re-i
maimng at work during the period
of arbitration—even after the pre
sent twp-week truce expires May
25.
LAREDO, May 16 A IT
month old baby died of polio here
yesterday, the health unit re-
ported today. The name of the vic-
tim. was withheld The vicinity of
the residence was dusted with
DDT powder for a distance of
two blocks, A cleanup campaign
was underway *sith no other case
reported Lareao- i-chools remained
open.
school and tell of the experience
to other students. Travis, IT, is a
junior.
Regular monthly meeting of the
Legion will be held tonight at
Legion Halt. It was said it will be
initiation night a large number of
candidates to be initiated.
Monday the Legion campaign
for &45G.OOO for a fund for Ameri-
canism Endownment wilt be open-
ed int the state, according to in-
formation from Austin. It was«ad-
ded that this matter also will be
discussed
Among other matters will be
the campaign now under way far
a new home for the Legion her?,
an appreciable sum now being rea-
lized sir.te the sale of the local
property.
tKESk
The
i as the council, with Russia back
' in attendance, began a detailed
I f-jruttny of proposed procedural
rules submitted by its own com-
mittee of experts.
TOKYO, May 16 <ILR*—Shigcru
Yoshida. a steely, tittle 67-year-
old man who has spent most of ni.s
lifetime in Japan's diplomatic ser-
vice was appointed Premier of
Japan by Emperor Hirohito alter
receiving the endorsement of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur.
enable boys and girts to return :o
school with a minimum of time
lost
This is the first year, according EVANSVUJLE. tnd <& —Mayor
to Ray Wilson, chairman of the 1 Manson Rekhert of Evansvilte has
Junior Farm and Ranch -commit-1 branched out into international
..FT WORTH LIVESTOCK
Cattle 1.300, calves 350. Active,
fully steady. Few medium and
good steers and yearlings 14.00-
16.50. Good and .choice fat calves
I4.50-I6.0U.
LONDON, May 16 (tttS—Nearly
T.OOO persons in Poland were kil-
ted (hiring April in guerrilla fight-
ing connected with political ten-
sion Inside the country, central
European dispatches said today.
TEEM-A6ERS ARROAO 6ET
•RALST THROUGH MAYOR
and girls "match-making" |
have had all focitttlcs turned over | First, ho found Evansville youths f
to them to house and show theu' to curtespond with teen-aged Eitg-
ttvastodt lish girts who wrote him for names
Wilson stated that the plan was of "pen pais,"
adopted in order to alleviate crow- Now he's looking for a boy cor-
M wrftlom that have resulted < respondent for SMga Regouw, a
in former yean when animals to 16-year-old Dutch girl who
Abilene from, here
until
hot days.
him, "I believe in
all is possible, so
mi prise to got
tetters
Wesley TUttle will sing "With
Tears in My Eyes," "Detour." "I
Wish I Had Never Met Sunshine".
and other of his songs of whicii Huston Reed of Breckenridge
records have been made, at the' was injured and his motorcycle
Palace theatre tonight < damaged Wednesday afternoon in
He is the entire Inter- & collision with a truck driven by
state circuit, covering 2S towns, p «1- W. Hodges of Graham.
going to the Qoeen Theatre in The accident occured in the 800
1 block on East Walker. Police
; Chief said this morning Reed'*
motorcycle was damaged to con-
siderable extent. Reed was taken
to the hospital and after being ex-
amined was transferred home.. He
was not seriously injured
~ Chief Eason said when he was
going to the accident with his sir-
en open cars kept darting out in
front of him, and he asked that
this practice be stopped, else m
serious accident may
The following patterns have bemt
adtoitted to the Bt-eckenridge
Clinical Hospital since last re-
port: Ntt. L C Reed Jr., Major
Brs, Booh Eatherton,
MUltins, Mrs fW I.
Blisa Mabel Moon for
MEXICO CITY. May 16 <U.R) _
Babe Ruth arrived here by lir
today to look over the Mexican
baseball scene and denied any
knowledge of rumors of peace Be-
tween organized baseball of the
United Stares and Jorge Pasquel'i
Mexican circuit.
PARIS, May 16 IU.R— James F.
Byrnes fought for three hours
today for his proposal to call a
peace conference on Germany for
next November, hut was stymied
by the failure of V. M. Molotov
to receive new instructions from
MOosow:
WKATBE*
Mostly cloudy this afternoon; to-
night and Ftidfey.
856
minimum jtw>
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