Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 229, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 1, 1949 Page: 1 of 6
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A Win riATUIING
LOCAL NKW8
Breckenridge American
UNITED PRESS Win Swrin
DtvoUd to tin DinwiutiM at
ami Upbuilding at Stephens County
NIA Ftttan Seyriee
WEATHER
Fair Ibis afleriwati. tonight and
Wednesday. Warner this after-
MM awl twiiM.
VOL. 2 Mt. 229
BRECKKNRIGB, TESAS—TUESDAY. NOV. I. I 4
Coal Strika Critic hariiridti
Follows Steal Peace 2**
Is Under nsy
PRICE 5 CENTS PER COP*
Planes Crash,
I2m- <nd of the steel strike wasted Mint- Worker- inflicted new
in 'K t t -day. but the soft coal hardship* in cities and town.- scat-
walkout rapidly approached a crts- tered acmes the nation
'**„ ... . In IH<•►! ! . fuel mrn-hunti- ask.d
Be tale beta Steel Corp. had brok- [Gov. Adlai Stevenson to intciced.
«n the I.' ih> stalemate in steel. with President Trun m to -mi th.
and f.-ur otner major producers walkout They lit I
were . | e, ted to reach settlement yards will bt-b.tr> by
with thr striking <"I« United Sted
^"rk'is shortly on the hiw ba.-.s.
Hut th<' walkout b> UUi.iusi Unit-
Quirks In News
Of Today From
Over The U. S.
(Bv I NITED PRESS)
oXHiKD, Mm.- Nov. | up
implaining that they have found
torm* in the turnip." ami rock*
the !>• arm," students at th* Uni-
rsity of M -wtssippi t'-duy threat-
he school'* cafe-
fmoi# <*«•
the week'
•■Mil
Chicago public School* ftt-gar. 1-..I:
nerving coal bv lowering i ia--r« ..r
tt mperature*. At Stro.itoi. I
Mayor A.bcr: Ditinan d -< i.ired
••in. i gene) and tin- city hou ng
department h tfaii rationing
to thorn- in need.
Coal dealt-i* in
were flooded with cal
when the temperature
. and were f*
ent* to CUMn
•f cmergeno
i>at
hi
>tt
b«-
elletl
teria.
Th. iia.-K boii.'It was set t
Kin Satuiday follow nut a mass
meet-nil of <>'** student* yesterday
An eiirh'.-fr.ir, committee was niini-
■ d t investigate the situation.
t h r - • M J l> W, ,ii- * atid-
less, d the students alid asked tnem
4.. d'-e'i-.
tion shipn
A state
•Hi ,.t It.'lll
bureau pr
night. Th*
yard.* and
Official* .
Atlanta, (i
. for n
tropp.fi
reed to i
Trial of Morris Shcppard Tabb
U-.t under way in the IMlth district
court yesterday, and it appeared to-
day it will net a record .'or tne
number of witnesses called, if not
f-.r i> nifth of trial.
T.! • il.iy w i- taken up with -• •
ledum of th- jury. The state call-
ed thr#-. witness.# and then Tabb
ai.d twenty t n others were to take
tin stand f««r defense
Tabb was tru d once before oil
this charge, a hung jury resulting.
Judir- Floyd Jones is presiding
and th«* following were elected on
th. jui y:
Marsh!
ipi
dii
>uld
Thoi
i, Hob IC<
O. 1 norj
W. M •r.
m T. -Hi
, KI m e r
E. Rowe,
E. t'ope -
K Finiey,
<>th, C. C.
Home Use Fuel
Oil Plentiful:
ladustry Short
WASHINCiTON, Nov. I
\ petrol.un, industry M >k
assured householdei.i today
they'll Ket plenty of fuel oil this
winter, hut h- onet-Jcd that
prices in iirht iro up—'pro ho My
not drastically."
The spokesman said there miirht
be a shortaic* of industrial fuel
oil if th>- coal -tiik>- t* pralongdi
and ther> tt <'oiJ[iruled rapid con-
version in industry froi
U.P j
small
that
J.
Na
to
il-
to have
and I' id
said.
pat i
"I ie had (food
he cafeteria, hv
VTtANTA.
. kty report
pter
W l't
Cr i
horn
last
A
the
A
thumb w
of
III !|l
n Atlanta t.niay I
*e.-k'« I«4 case.*:
5-year i.Id hoy wh
• P f a toothbruah ras<* Truman
ballerina who sprained her juration
"pen to th. put.. . to:
At kmixvilh , K> .
showeil no coal reserv.
ttliflK rum kept th.
near freesiny.
Meanwhile f .-«l-
chief Cyrus i«. Chinjc
the Whit. Moli-. on b.
and steel strikes a:- td
the government lllllihl
the coal walkout befi r
end.
f 'hiriK w.i- n-poit. <1 .
for re: . Hid ne^otiatl
tn« striking United \]
^and soft coal '>p.-rators
swallowed failed, t'hir.it couUi
to obtain ant
ikatnst the in
i h
.o*icat«d
MfWl vv
i an intoxicated
Tabb ;.s tried .
"int. but the tri
unif verdict, arid
•r Monday.
drix
H.
r
id that i
■he nation "there |
upplv of liltht fuel [
is. d for home heut- |
•e on th. 1>W I
resulted in a
ft rial w as set
"Th
be
1 UKt—1'hnt
the ioeal Kill
widetits in the
•d arnonK
practicmK dancing. th,- Taft Hart lev
MT XICO CITY. Nov. 1 <U Th.
d> part .< t of foicatrjr announced
1 refus.- to grant any
cut p;r,. trees foi
A senate commission
i.ired i'hri tma trees
n>. Mexican."
ti^iiy it
pe rmits
< hi istn a
lecently
"nordic a
Nt.W
- -Two
I ih k' wife le
paker
Yraterday
off Kothr.H-k
ATLANTA
ASTl.t
Mr# .if".
# !h
Ind . N«.v, 1 'if
I'harlr- Koth-
<-gs in a corn
ight
| c same machine cut
hand.
Nov. I 'Ufcm Poliee
•aid tiata} that they never caught
the I an whneirt hm-«e|f while try •
, ing to break mt.i a grocery stori
' ere, but it probably doean t mat-
ter bruuw he must be dead by
• •ffiora " iid h. left a cl«ar-cut
trai1 of hoM«i utrr more than two
mile* of city «treet« before the
track disappeared. .
tKs-tors t«ld the police they
doubt.-d that anyone could luae that
much bl d and still live.
HWl.l.VWOflll. No*, t liR —
Actn ■. latraine liay's ♦?!• charm
bra«e|.t prov.-d to be no food luck
piece for h< r
U*hile she and ner husband,
base ha It's la •• lluioeher, * «t« a-
way from home, a sneak thief
walked off with a purs, containing
>77 and the costume jewelry. h.
told police.
Mining Town In
S. A. Attacked
BOCOTA. Colombia, Nov,
—.aasked men armed with
and dynamite attacked a
mining town neu. «" I.• o
" we«< outh>-.'ak of political
ing, dispatches receiv.-d h< t> t .-
**a v .aid.
Th e e r.poit* said 'be attaek
became known when two truck
loads of women and ch'idrei ai
riv-d at urmv t,e:i VT*T"!rt..-s tn
Cali and requested protection.
Til. refugi . - -a il the' ■' el-
fr-w Silo, a soft coal center f< ui
mile* south of Cati th.- \all.
pro\ inc> capital whirl ha- h. • • a
center of leeent hi>><..ly p.. itica'
arfare.
They said their town, a collec-
tion of hiimlmi.* of sm.ilI houses
built'on the mountain-d>- was at-
tacked bv "a band of ma-ked men
firing arms and discharging
explosives "
Oklahoma Archers
'■•'.'k" Going After Deer
• ady to . OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 1 UP
•ns tx i Aeen Doled* of Oklahoma archer*
Vkorkirs t ii .-d up their prn*. five weapons
If that hul today to battie tomorrow with that
k I'r• ...dent . .w:ie creature of the f'.M it—
th< deer.
Th. Camp (>ruber area in th.
' ■ "i H I - ar< i of Kasti i n ik
..iii['i a has been declared out-of
bounds, for the modern huntsmen
v* iio ki!! with gun*. The bow-and-
arrow boy* will have if.,immi acres
u'1 to themselves,
Th. Archer* will b. I«J by the
president of tn« Oklahoma bow
: unteis .iSttociation. Kalph Hedrtck,
• •klah'Utia City, who predicts that
tu rly M member* of the group
will invade the area during the five-
day season.
Hedrick said he expects the ar-
. in. r« tu do bitter than they did
the past two year* when they fail-
• <1 t>- bag a single deer. Tile game
arwf fi«Yt mm nt«rforr*ti giving them
a "break" this year by allowing
them a special an a.
I ..-it yen they hunted a/ter th'
gunners had cleaned out the game.
H-drick reported there are 4ihi
to noo deer in the Camp (irub>i
art ci.
The archers will be repaired—a-
long with the gunner*—to wear a
topcoat of red. although they
would pre far to wear camouflaged
garments to stalk the prey. The
limit is on.- deer per hunter.
and
P.U
We
W
beeauf
•f
of I
.tiff
ere
per
not
to repetition of I
tag of 1 *47 when the I
t wit- hi' by a coal strike i
mrtage of fuel oil at the [
Brown said. "That >
re aiis no overall short- '
.it. but merely a dK-.loc - :
ln mpply. due to trana- i
unities, and the fact that I
just coming out of the j
i<>d and our production i
up to its pr'-sent level t
f price and material con- ,
IIOKMONKS Lsali I Hi; CANCKK RI SK \I:CH 1
ind ACTll, two rare hormone*, on the growth of n
New York City lab. Th- • xp. rin . i t- indicate th-
growths. Researchers are, left to light: l>r. Donald
■md Dr. <)!af II. Pearson. ACTH is -.ubstanci to be
fev.tr victim flown from Alabama to Chicago.
urOf the five research scientists who used cortisone
ii ihgnant tumors, discuss their experiments in their
h irti >ri. s may retard and partially destroy cancerous
li.hiing.r; Dr. Rulon VV. Rawson; Iaonard l'. Kliel,
a iiiiinistneil Patricia Owens, 1^ year old rheumatic |
(NKA Telephotoi
Ijltest figures show that stock i
of home type fuel oils on the east |
coas* totaled about J'J.ooo.Onn (
bar relit in mid-October. Thi.- is I
'J.54hi,immi barn Is more than a to- |
tal a \ear ait-, and nearly 10.- !
iKMi.oon bi..-r*-is more than in ,
1! 47 when the eastern area was
caught short.
The midwe.-t and (iulf areas re- j
ported a similar increase in sup- ;
plies. The w-.-st cast was the only-
area reporting lower stocks. But
Hi iwn noted that "They don't j
burn much fuel oil there, any-
way."
But the industrial fuel oil sit-
uation was not so promising.
Industrial stocks of oil in the
east air I 'iulf Coast areas as of
Oct la s. re miO.imhi barrels less
than a year ago Midwest stocks
wen reiiorted '. 'twe,.ft .'t.iiun.iHMl
and l.oiiii.noo barret* U s than in ■
P.OV
Both Brown and Carroll Ken-
tress, retiring director of the In-
terior department's oil and gas
division, expressed concern that
industry might be caught short if
th*- coal strike continues—esoec-
lally since industry is rapidly
converting from o>at to oil and
gas.
Famed Scientist Doubts Russia
Has Bomb: Warns Of Energy Use
Fiesta Week In
Ward School Is
Opened Strong
Fiesta Week at South Waul
school opened with a big bang
Monday rught with the South Ward
Fiesta Carnival, which sone 4imi
or aim people attended. The old
Sp.nt Halloween was mixed
with a Mexican theme ;.nd the
outcome was lots of fun for every-
i >ne.
Highlighting the week will be
the operetta. "In Old Mexico,"
heal in the South Ward Auditor-
ium Thursday night at 7:30 p. in.
All the children of the school will
have parts in the operetta.
The story built around native
dances and songs tells of Klaine,
daughter of the ambassador, who
is lost in the woods. Following the
sounds of music, she conies to a
Mexican patio where she meets lw i,,.^ In New Kngland.
BAPTIST CHURCH CHARGE! BY
LEADER WITH MILDEW, DRY ROT
KI. PASO, Tex , Nov. 1 'U.R— same trend," "We see that mildew
Baptists in tl-.' .*• uth are being creeping in. that dry-rot, coming
... akt lied by "mildew, dry-rot and over our own people.
d..uti 'i ach'i'gs that have "We are departing from the faith
brought a far drift from the spirit that foundtd the Baptist church
..f K-. ..nut is*11 that implanted the in Texas. Tnere are Baptist church
Baptist church on Texas soil. es with members that never have
III". W. \. Criswell, pastor of the been baptized. We Baptists ill Tex-
J-'irst Baptist Church of Dallas, as must look back to the rock
sounded that stirring warning as from which we were hewn.
h> addi. --.il th. Baptist brother- "To save ourselves, our people
hood of T -xas h- re today. He and our churt-h, we must preach
tpiicki tied a crusading spirit for the in the spirit of Evangelism.
Baptist general convention of Tex- "A church can not live where the
as that will -open at Liberty HaU epflstor's heart is dead, where the
tonight. spirit of Evangelism is dead."
"The Baptist church is dying in | „
Kngland, ' said Dr. Criswell. "That
is bccausi tin Baptist church i«
Kngland lias lost the spirit of
Evangelism. A thousand churches
Have clo.-ed in New Kngland." That
is because the spirit of Evangelism
a group of Mexican boys and girls
singing and dancing. They call her
"Princesita" because she is so
beautiful. She tells tht-m that she
is the daughter of a gardener in
the Castle of Montezuma.
Elaine hears the legend of the
treasure h iddetl in the Castle of
Ruin, and with Pedro, a Mexican
' Here in the south, we see that
Three Marriage
Licenses Issued
Jayeees Witness
Filn Of Battle
illith Brewnwoed
Killed
lolivian Plane
Glides With
J.S. Airliner
WASHINGTON. Nov. | .i t-
Oi Eastern Air Loi.-- n.i- -. ngi -
•lane carrying .">4 persons and
t t'vin-engin< I fighter nlane pilo-
'etl hv a Bolivian government of
ficial colliditl ami rrasltrd
National airport tndav. It w;.-
ficiallv reported person- wi n
killed.'
Erick Ri.is Brivoux, director
general of Civil Ae-onautics
Bolivia, was piloting the I'-.s
military plane.
Eastern Air Liim- said one • t
the passengers aboard th. tian"
port was Rep. tieorg. Bat. II.
of Salem, Mass.
The collision occurred as both
ulanes were comillt' in f• ■ i a land-
ing. The smaller dived into i I
goon near the south end of the
airport. The largei c ashed part
Iv in the lagoon and partly «>i i
strip of land separating it fn
the Potomac Riv.-i,
The transport w.- a DC.4 «■■• ■-
rying an passengers and f..,i
crew members >.n I isi. in' f1
5.'! 7 from Boston :o N.
Orleans via New 1 i n W .i
in.'ton.
Crt'w memhi ialmard - - ' "
tered transport w. i r •
ge Ray. Pilot Chart-s It
wi«xl. and two tiii'ht a''
one a w-oman.
At 1:2'i p.m.. EST.
hud been accounted for. "f
1 1 Were at tin \It Xat'tl' 1 \
armory, which was .-..t:v r'ed •
a morgue; In at th-- Alexamli
hospital and one each at th
Washington City morgtu and i'
Emergency hos'-it ' h.n
Among th. firs'" b.^di. s
ei-cd from the tag. • th
of a woman and a chi'd, aboiii
year old.
The Civil Aeronautics aiithoii'v
siiid the transport va- u-lidii---
for a landing. Krivtejx. tl-m c \ \
said, had asked th contnil to •
er for landinu- instruc'ioiis ami
was \iild to follow th>- D I
Perhaps misiiml"!-landiinr Ii
inst -uctions, Brivoux iinsh.il I- •
little fighter in behind the big
airliner too soon .the control
wer reported.
It said h> started '•> la>id<wi,!
out clearance, overtook and i
med into the transport, shi-aiin:?
off its tail.
Ib«th n'anes pliunnieted.
The EAL operations offii .-
here said the nlane .-ii command
by Capt. Ray. C.t)tev metoK..|^
of the e*ew Uere I as T'ilot
Hazel
h. .
th'
■la
Tvurmvr vrtuiiivi
Soon Far Texas
LvfUn Has 2f
(By I SITED PRESS)
\ lu g. ring cold front Jolted
Texas with tn. lowrst overall tem
pa-ratures of the new autumn sea-
son t<*lay and brought a killing
frost to several sections.
The I S. weather bureau at
Dallas promiwed warmer tempera- [ iith ihr smooth
turm in r.**t urni wwt thin Ainericanf
afternotm and tonight and in South "They were working under gn at
political pressure," he said f the
Bv ROBERT Ml SKI.
L'nitetl Pre.* Staff Co. n ,-|h i lent
BRHiHToN, Kngland. Nov 1
1 •' -Dr. Kretlerick K. Stddy!
poineer atomic scientist antl N
hel prize winner, said '.nlav fh t
the atomic explosion n Bus- a
"sounds like an accident."
Agile at 71 and pfying evt-i
deeper into the m- s'erie* "f h -
itivttrr'i-s of his chos. it fie'd Dr
Sod.ly 'o-oke hi- long silence with,
an expn .sion of doiibi that the
Soviets had harnessed the atom
fficiency of the
and Central Texas tomorrow.
lit .ivy frosts were reported early
today at Austin, near the center
of the cold front, and at Tcxar-
kan.c \ light blanket of f>o*t cov-
ered Datla* and lieaumont.
The mercury dropped to a biting
J'. ib grt es early today at Lufkin.
and at Da.iuirt in the northwest ■
corn, r of the Panhandle. It dipped
to ,'M) at Junction and -II at Texar-
kalia and Salt Flat. Wink reported
a freezing 32 degree*.
Otherwise, the weather bureau
said, overnight minimum tempera-
tares were mostly in the 30's.
High temperatures yesterday
were in the .'mi's and •Mi's, with
Brownswlle, Lan-do and Galveston >
reporting maximum Mi's. The top
minimum was 4o at Galveston.
Thr early morning temperature j
at Dallas was degrees, one 4e- |
gree above yesterday's 3S which
was the cttldest weather reported
there since last Marcn Itf.
Russian effort, "and it's doubt-
ful that they solved, as the Ai.
ericans did. th- pi obit m of gett-
ing all the stuff to explicit- in tla
flash of an eyelid."
• He regard"-I it as "a marvel"
that there was no major accident
in America in the wo-k which led
UD to the explosion of th I'irst
atom bomb in the wastes of Nev.
Mex ico.
Even so. he said, th.- Russian
achievement is far le«. than th<
American because tht Americans
werc exploring th. unknown and
Russia knew it wa. |m.-- bit .
In the small, sun'it study of the
little house to which he "retired"
In years ago to pursue his studies
Dr. Soddy disclosed that he was
invited by Russia to examine a
urani-im find in the Pamirs ne:u
the Himilaya.- in ISKSI, hut re-
f'i- I because he wu« "Afraid I
ninth' not come back."
But he examined ore sample,
and found t wa- low g-ade stuff i
However, Russia has a "magni-
ficent" source in Czechtwlovnlfni
ht . d. "as goid a-s anywhere,"
on th.- font er estate of Count
Silva Tt-iuca. a nobleman who
tritd to get hi.- radioactive land-
i xploited before the war but fail-
t-d. Dr. Soddy said Russia hiid
tunneled right und* r th . Getiran
bi.nlei into Saxony in the search
fin more and more ore.
Tin iimn who predicti-d as long
ago as !!** that the first use of
atomic force would be in war said
that scientist* ought to gi*e ,-er-
ious attention to the pttssibility
that continuous belching of ato-
mic gases would distuiti the en-
tire weather distribution of the
world.
"Radioactive gases ionize the
air, and mns cause precipitation."
he -aid, "It's a perfectly unknown
field."
lit objected to the "degrading"
of the atom by trying to tame it
for commercial pu -ptoses instead
of turning its fearful potential to
uses in which it has no cttuaL
Hazelwood: O. Oryhuela. flight
A film of the Kuckaroo-Brown, purser, and Helen Gilbert, (Tight
wo«id game wel* shown to mem- attendant.
Three couples secured marriage hers of the Juycees at their The plane took off from Boston
icens. * tit le this week, bringing weekly luncheon meeting here : at 9 a.m. on fli"ht .V.7. with \. w
boy with a biautiful voice, sets to four the number of licenses is- Monday. Kohs Elliott, presijent 1 Orleans as its final destination,
out to find it. The search for the sued from County Clerk's office i of the club, announced that guest j It was scheduled to land he
golden carnation which opt ns the since tne new marriage law* went speaker Monday would be Odie j at ll:4 ! a.m. EST. It wa
wall of the duilgton Iiwni where into effect the first part of Octo-j Reed, past speaker of the House,
the gold is hidden, and the Story her. and fort Worth attorney, who
of Elaine's friendship with the Licenses wire issued to James will review the ten constitutional
rhildren, especially Pedro, makes Ray font Evans and Miss Wrenie amendments to be voted on Nov-
a charming background for the Carmel Bruchey, John William ember H by the voters of Texan.
Stewart and Miss Lorene Estie Any other clubs are invited to
Whitley, Korrest Leroy Kirby and, hear Reeves at the meeting.
Miss laiVertie Stiffcll.
app
aIMillol. 1 Hanrl
uufiiiin Miieuu
0 Rhm lis alLn
d row mevnug
The general Texas State Bap- I
list Convention open* tislay in '
El Paso with tt veral from B-eck-
enridge .rttt-nding. The meeting i
open.-d Mot lav with a session for !
the women of the church in the j
afternoon, and a meeting of lay- ,
men and pastoi Mondav evening.
The general convention ip*ned
ttdav, with a program on foreign
missions held tidav and tonight.
Wednesday night, the state miss-
ions will he the sub.iect of the
meeting, and Thursday night
home missions will be discuss' i.
•Th. -e attemling frttm here in-
clude Rev. and Mrs. Truman Ald-
redge of the First Bavtist Church
M-. and Mrs. C. I.. Martin, Mrs
Gilbert Ridings, und Mrs. E. R.
Weath.-rford, all First Baptists.
From the Second Baptist Church.
Ret E. P. Kilburn. pastor is at-
tending.
beautiful music und dances.
South Ward students are t tiding
a month of study of Mexico. One
of the features of the carnival was
a curio shop with authentic souve-
nires from Juarez, Mexico. No fin-
ancial statement ha* been detailed
as yet .but Frank Camp, princi-
pal. states that the carnival was
very successful.
* «' aa
rorenr s rogov jit
Jr. High Nov. 7
The public, and e*peciallv the
Announcement was also made of
the directors meeting ta be held
Mondav morning. November 7 at
7 a.m. at the YMCA.
Bob Vickers, program chairman
int -t-luced Cooper Bobbins, Breck-
enridge High school coach, who
showed the film on the Buckaroo-
parents all Junior High students. Rrownwixid game and pointed out Washington- ve
ximately on tint. .
The cttllisiou was witne-sed I"
sores of person- at the '.kisv \-.
tional airport which lies acros.-
the Potoma" Riv.-r from Washin-r-
ton.
Miss Alice D«ld. a
Congressman Bates' office, aid
she had confil'imtl by teletihoee
that the congress., an hoMrdetl a
' .iVlm.tr "t IV -ton. lie w-i-
comintr to Washington to attend
a defense department orienta'i >n
eon fere nee.
Rates hud rilanned to come t<>
an- cordially iavitetl to attend
Parent's Night to Is- held at the
Junior High Schtsd on Monday
night, November 7, at 7:.'! p. m.
The faculty urges the parents to
att'-nd. ud it insists that each
student furnish a copy of his daily
schedule to the parent.
Inis mieting is in observance of
Ot
miiuivi viwn
*jtnne mm nn ConI
COLCMBL'S. O.. Nov. 1
Bishop Michael J. Ready of the
Columbus Di<>cese totiay will re-
ceive a union card and button
from Local Stonemasons' trn- National Education Week, and is
ton (AFLi. Union officials said an earnest desire on the part of
the bishop has become *o exper- the faculty to meet and learn to evervone discussing their favorite
iencci at laying cornerstones foi know the par .a of all the Junior team*. Bill Black presented R«*s
buildings that he deserved mem- High student*, as well as all in- Elliott with a crying towel for
bership in the union. t'-rested patron* of the school. the University of Terss F es.
interesting plays. Brownwood. he
states, has a very baffling defen-
sive game, which threw off ouite
:• bit of the Buckarno's plan of
blocking. The game score was 12-
0 in favoi of the BucKaroo.-.
John Haye* of Canada was the
only out-of-town guest present at
the meeting.
During the noon meal conver-
sation centered around footbal I.
"Thirty" Written For Thornton
Om Man Banwd
Left-wing Giant Union Beats
CIO To Punch By Reading Out
teniae bet ebon. <1
his office here that he had been
delayed and would arrive toda-
Itate*. .Vt. has been a member of
Cettw|-e s for I't years.
The EAL's p.-.'sentfr li:it showed
that several proetinent person-
were aboard in additon to Bates.
Included were H -l" n E. Hnkinson.
cartoonist for th<- New Yorker
magazine, and Gardner Taylor,
president of the First F d'-r:i| Sav-
ings Association. New York.
There wen- several pt rsons at
the airport who said tht v wen-
waiting to greet Miss Hnkins..n,
Taylor, and Bates. Miss llokinsen
ia famous for her cartoons of /ub-
urbun club women.
I
AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. I
i W. M. (Tudevi Thornton, an Aus
i tin correspondent of the Dallas Dallas News in
News for SI years, died early today than "<> years,
1 at his home.
The mton had suffered a chron-
ic heart ailment for the last never-
al years.
HOUSTON. Tex., Nov. t «UJfc— However, he had recently been
No trace had been found today af feeling in good health.
ilolman T. Simmons, 47-year-old He srorked st his office as usual
By LAURENCE ISONDF.K Tin pro-Communist union waa CIO, Fitzgerald accused national
United Press Staff Correspondent scheduled to be kicked out of the CIO officers of conducting "a pru-
CLEVELAND, o., Nov. I o.B— ,ClO tomorrow anyway. This clinch- gram of raiding, union-busting and
Tht Thorntons, father and son. Mr. and Mrs. L W. Cor ley are j The giant united electrical workers ed it. red-baiting hypocrisy."
had represented the Galveston and parent* of a baby girl, bom this 1 today read itself out of the national Albert Fitzgerald, left - wing i "|t jBt" he said, "the policy of
Au*tin for more morning, and w-t ighing & pounds,, CIO. president of the UE. told a press (he CIO today to fritter away the
7 ounces. Also taken to the hospit-. The electrical workers aitnounc- conference the next move was up to orguniied strength of the working
Thornton, through his wide ac- al was C. P. Church, who was burn- ed that they would withhold from th. national CIO. people and to wMp tllem into a po-
•luaintanceship as a political re- e<| in the Pendleton oil field near the national CIO all pro-capita tax Th *'— " —* *
of the state's best Sedw ick, at the same time as J. W, payments "until such time as the righi-
nrter, was one or the state's best Sedwick, at the same time aa J. W.! payments
nown newsmen. , Vincent. T. H. Weaver, who wer -' CIO returns to the principles of gram calling for the outright ex-
He had traveled Texas score* of reported burned yisterday. Church free, democratic industrial union pulsion of thrie pro-Communist un
parking lot attendant, who dlaap- yesterday, and went home last ev-
peared early M«mday.
times, and acr.tss tne continent on suffered burns on his arms,
varmu* political assignments.
Several (eivernors of Texas were
people and tn
convention will get from fjtical lineup
wing officers tomorrow a pro- .<The UE ^p.di.te, begging for
favors from poUticiaaa aa a sub-
stitute for organising the people
their own interests."
to
ienlng In good spirits. Death came his close friends. These included Ai
Also misaing from the lot waa about S:30 a. m. Coke Stevenson, Dan Moody and * j ■vwWWf
a 1 48 twi^taae blue Hudaoa car j Thornton, 70, was the "Dean" of the late Beauford Jester. " —
and 1175 in rash. Simmoaa' bat tbe eapitol press room correspond-, He was born at Austin Dee. 7,
and jacket were found I* the of
fice. and Fran% Wet set, waaagcr
of the parking h>t, believed Sim-
mons had bNi Uduapad.
"He waa an old and treated .u-
plove ami wmsM not have tefi tt
hi. own accord. ' Wetael tuld —
He started to work for the Gal-
and Dallas Nows while still
student at the Unl-
t«mi> it I -go* fiilo.iig tne
death of bia father, J. E. Thorntim,
A cake walk and bingo par^Mirni
include his wife; a he held at the Neceaalty
1978.
Survivors _
daughter, Mrs. James E. Ferguson building Thursday night at • o'-
jf Auatin; a granddaughter, Nancy; dock. The Community Club Is gW-
Ferguson, n sistt r, Mrs. Jontea *. ii.k a party, with the proceeds to
Nosh Amiii,, ami u to lh*> rhiUIn n wf thi> ifHtimun-
Mui t. Thornton of Dallas. jity for X-rays.
ism." i-tns, including the electrical wor- . rl_ht
This makes UE expulsion from kers. ... ., > . ..
the CIO a certainty. Then the convention Is expected FlUgerpld s Jongstntement
Fitzgerald said his union acted to charter a new union to go into JU®"*" *'*° accused tlte national
nillitinff other |pft-|ir*no' KWtHrul Mnnufiiphipinv Ox
affiliates. Officials of other
without consulting other left-wing th>
affiliates. Officials af other pro- am
Communist CIO unions refused to left-wing electricnl workers.
Electrical Manufacturing field
and raid the membership of the
say immediately whether UE's I The electrical workers claim
withdrawal from tbe CIO would oRo.ixm members. But, right-wing
have an effect on future of their CIO officials have said this claim
unions. , is exaggerated and that UE's net*
Right-wing CIO leaders withheld ual membership is clone to 44NIJNM.
immediate comment, except to aay 1 Announcing that henceforth hjs
,"we expected it."
union would not pay dues into
If) of destroying free labor un-
ions and of folWwiag a policy that
eventually would lend "to a labor
movement supsrviasd, directad and
far tbe
controlled by
benefit of big
Fitsgerald estimated that in the
last II years, or since tbe CfO
waa organised, Ms union "has paid
*2.7R0imn into the OJo t.-easur; "
Walter Hendl fe
Given Ovotion
DALLAS. Nov. II 'U^_,tn
oreciative ttnenin" ni"ht nt:dieti"e
handed Walter H ••ndl. new con-
ductor of the Dsllns symphony*
orchestra a thunderous ovation
last night.
The gala hejeweled socialites
and the music students in the
bucfc row were in accord as to the
voung conductor's Vent* in his
first Dallas podium impeannce.
"Superb!" said the Texans, as
thev took the New .Yorker to
their hearts with round after
of applause.
The young conductor i* the se-
venth permanent conductor of the
Dallas symphony orchestra and
tbe youngest American-born con-
ductor of • major symphony or-
chestra.
However, his work is of the
•nnat mature and po'ished style.
Me conducted hi* orchestra in art
•invpeetaetdar style, but the re.
mm fiery tnd i>reotional.
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