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DENTON, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 23, 1950
VOL. XLVII!
NO. 62
Associated Press Leased W|re
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Of Manchurian Border
LEWISVILLE
GIRL VICTIM
in the
OF GUNSHOT
Three From Ponder
Killed In Auto Crash
Methodist
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Rescued From Lake
Explorers And Dog
Found In Cavern
City To Join
In U. N. Event
Search Resumed
For Missing Ship
Blaze Destroys
Garage, Breezeway
polled until Wednesday was
case of Brammer vs. McBride
Three of 24
Both the Millers, good swimmers,
had no Jackets
With the merciful thou wilt show
thyself merciful —2 Samuel 22-26.
low can we exact perlection from
c.tiers when we fall God ao often?
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also gathered at the cavern en>
trance as the word spread.
Young Harkins. McClelland and
Mallinak went into the Mr cavern
about 1 p.m. yesterday to look for
three
near
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and copper planters add to
living room. Selby's blower
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ST. JOHN'S. Nfld.. Oct. 33—
(is—Seven men believed sur-
vivor* of the Greek freighter
Northern Voyagenr. which dis-
appeared off Cape Race Ratnr-
dav, were sighted today on a
raft.
RT JOHN'S NFLD., Oct 23—<fT)
—Planes and ships resumed the
search today for the former Can-
adian freighter North Voywgeur.
which dtaappeared off Newfound-
land yesterday after sending a
brief dOS Little hope was held
for the 25 persons believed to have
been aboard
Five Seriously
Burned In Blast
the
MONTE CARLO
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was
Lewisville. Rev. L. W. Shivers will
conduct the services. Burial will
be in the Old Hall Cemetery,
See LEWISVILLE Page 2
Monaco. Oct
lAb- Movie Actor Errol Flynn
married "for the third and
last time'' today In an 18-mlnute
civil ceremony in the Monaco City
know W. weight"but” to see what ! Hall. Actress Pa trice Wymore was
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SOMETHING SAVED THE CHURCH—Although every structure surrounding it was
smashed and flattened during UN naval bombardment of Communist targets i„
Pohang area of Korea, the church in center background remained standing.
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Errol Flynn,
Actress, 24, At Monte Carlo
D L < Lennie > Moore stepped on
the scales tn the City Drug store,
probably not that he wanted to
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The garage and breeseway of a
new home belonging to Mr and
Mrs. Wayne Burgoon. Kerley St.,
were destroyed and furnishings of
their house were damaged by heat
and smoke about 9 25 am today
Burgoon la an engineer for the
Stale Highway Department and
the family had had a house-warm-
ing last Friday night.
wool dress in an off-white shade
She carried a bouquet of pink and
white flowers.
Flynn wore a dark
and a black knit tie
Mrs James Wymore. Patrices
| mother, wore a mauve suit with
before : orchid color felt hat.
When the mayor posed the tra-
ditional question to Flynn. Errol
replied with a firm "oul.”
By LEIF ERICKSON
SEOUL, Korea, Oct. 23 —
(AP) — South Korean forces
swept within 50 miles or less
of the Manchurian border to-
day.
Shattered remnants of the Red
Korean Army were fleeing franti-
cally toward the mountain triangle
north of Kanggye. It was there
that the Red chieftain. Kim 11
Sung, carried out his guerrilla war
against the Japanese before Rus-
sian occupation forces Installed him
a* premier of North Korea after
World War n.
Kanggye Is about 20 miles from
the border In the center of the
peninsula.
Three South Korean <ROK> di-
vudons were driving for the Man-
churian border to finish the four-
month war
Observers said the ROKs, who
can make 30 miles a day in forced
marehea, were capable of reach-
ing the Yalu River on the border
sometime Tuesday.
lOeneral MacArthur's headquar-
ters In Tokyo was non-committal.
A spokesman said only that the
army “had several estimates of
when Allied troops were expected
to reach the Manchurian border.*’)
On the north bank of the river.
Red China troops guard Manchuria.
Mrs. J
St ret. may
on the long march from Seoul and
on the train ride northward they
had knelt once each day to repeat
in unison the prayer.
Cpl. Victor Stevens of Hattiea-
burg. Mia*., was one of the Ameri-
cana who Jumped from the death
train and escaped before it reach-
ed the Sunchon tunnel.
Stevens said the American pri-
soners received no medical treat-
ment from Um Reda. ......
"Segno of Um boys had miRgnU
tn their wounds and they ware dy-
ing like fit**.” ho said.
Blalock aaM the American pri-
gcnmfb ImUI bssn ill 8ooul until Uw
Martnoa landed at Inchon Sept. 1*.
Then they were taken oa the march
to Pyongyang.
He said bitterly:
"The Mede had no eocsteeratton
cy. If a man was ao weak he
couldn't stand up. they boat him
over the head. I guess at least a
hundred of tha boys died along the
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SHREVEPORT. La . Oct 23- F
—Five persons were burned, two
probably fatally, when ■ can of i
gasoline exploded in the kitchen!
of their two-room tourist cabin at
Waskom. Texas. 17 miles west of .
here today
B. L. Riley. Waskom, member of
the volunteer fire department, iden-
tified those burned as W D. Prince.
25. his 20-year-old wife, and three
children. 2. 3 and 5. all of Wa*kom
Tiie family resided at the tourist
cabin.
HARLANSBURO. Pa.. Oct. 3»-
iAb—Three, young “explorers'' and
a small dog were rescued today
after their flashlights failed while
they wandered through the mase-
llke passageways of a newfound
cavern.
Apparently none the worse for
their 12-bour stay in the bat-filled
tunnels of the cave were:
Herbert Harkless. 13; Eddie Mc-
Clelland. IS-year-old eon of a
funeral director; Ernest Mallinak.
□a. a construction company em-
ploye. and "Andy.” year-old cocker
spaniel owned by young McClel-
land.
The only note of concern was ex-
pressed by the Harkleee boy,
whose first comment was:
"Heck. I guess I'll have to go
to school today as usual ”
His mother, overjoyed
safe retdrn. was quick to assure
him he could take a couple of days
off. if he wanted to.
The plight of the three turned
this western Pennsylvania town of
500 out in full force to aid In the
search. About 1.500 men and wom-
en from surrounding communities
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By ALLEN BOGAN
Record-t hronlcle Start Writer
A dramatic rescue of a McKin-
ney couple and their four small
children waa effected by nearby
pleasure and fishing craft about 4 .
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Korean
north
through the IRRh Airborne Regi-
ment's roadblocks south of Suk-
chon. Many of the Reds were kill-
ed.
Allied warplanes hit Red troops
and transport lines north of the
advancing Allied forcea. The op-
erations base for F-« Shoottpg
Star jet fighter planea was moved
Sunday from Japan to Korea. Thto
gives the fuel-hungry Jets longer
time in the air over enemy coun-
try
The Allied bag of weapons, am*
Tn i^nit inn and «|ppHflf mpUlUM
along with the total of Red Korean
prisoners.
Compilations were not complete,
but in intelligenco aCDaer aalA
enough enemy equipment had been
captured to outfit u infantry and
two tank divisions.
This includes only equipment
captured south of Parallel 38. Vast
stores have fallen into allied hands
north of the border.
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north and central ao
night. Moderate win
northerly on tha oeaot.
WEgT TKXAB: Fbir thto
tonight and Tuesday. 1
• Panhandle aad Ml
Thaaday afteraaan.
TB0W WBATMB MflMMV
DKNTON AND VICINITY: Mg
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GIK1 OOOl®T tCXiAJFe OSB
Tuesday. Moderate BMtbagty
winds tonight.
KART TKXAB: Pair thto attanwoto
tonight and TMeday. CtoM tB
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♦ An old-model convertible, bought
Saturday from a used car lot,
persons to
Ponder. Two
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Allies Are Within 50 Miles
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cruiser of Mr
Burris of Dallas. I_______ _____
boats picked up the other two chll-
i dren and the father and mother
I The cool-thinking father was
| credited with aiding the quick
rescue All of the children except
Hi
A South Korean colonel found
the first seven bodies. Men who
had starved to death and. had been
laid beside the railroad track
And then we began finding the
survivors and the bodies of the
men murdered by the Korean*.
Allen directed th* Job of getting
Utter bearers to carry th* wound-
ed across a ridge
lie walked among th* men. pat-
ting them on the back, encourag-
ing them, and assuring them their
nightmare was over
Maj. Hairy Fleming of Rwcine.
Wls.. and Capt. Alfred Olson of
Columbia. 8. C., were with the
South Koreans as military advisers
and thsy quickly tvad trooi* swarnv
Ing in to help the Americans snd
to search the hills fur other pos-
sible survivors
Two South Kor*un nurses were
bruuahl up to belli ths wounded, j
The < girls quickb begau clean |
’ Bolivar
w llh a
ring or
diamond
Passing along the
west side of the square the other
nitflit we met Mr. and Mrs Pen-
t ui snd they were glimpsing the
i i.inond displsy in the MeCtay
show window A couple of hours or
> > later, we passed that way again
and whom did we see looking at all
those diamonds. Il was Mr and
Mrs Penton.
The desperate Red Koreans were
fleeing northward so fast that they
no longer could herd all their Al-
lied prisoners along with them.
Many POWs were escaping to
the safety of Allied lines.
Other prisoners were massacred
by the Reds In a brutal last show
of defiance,
were found
miles north
fallen Red capital.
Five hundred South Koreans
were reported murdered at Yong-
hung, on North Korea's east coast.
An Army Intelligence officer in
Tokyo said the Red Koreans had
put up "no real organized resist-
ance In the last 24 hours.”
Fleeing Reds were reported turn-
ing Inland in their retreat before
the advancing United Nations
forces. Officers said they were en- I
terfng an area dotted with ancient
walled cities.
These will not offer much de-
fense, a spokesman Said. "With
what we have learned already we
can take cars of those without any
trouble.**
The spokesman said American
forces had learned much in as-
saulting the walled city north of
Taegu in southeastern Kores.
Air attacks "will take care
them,” he explained. But ground
assaults may be necessary to flush
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crude little house which had been
a Red Army hospital. Bronstein
converted the rooms into wards
snd began working over the mpst
seriously wounded. But although
he worked all through the night,
two of the 23 survivors died.
Those who were sble to Valk sat
tn a little courtyard around a
campfire, huddled in blankets and
silks of parachutaa which Bern-
stein used as emergency bedding.
An American chaplain with ths
paratroop*—Capt. James A. Skel-
ton ol HannlvaL Mo.—came to the
hospital to see the man.
"You are the first chaplain we've
seen.” one of the boya said. They
asked Skelton if he would lead
them In prayer.
The men knelt, in the campfire
light and repeated Um Lord's Bray-
er.
They told Skelton that each day
4 pm. today at the
Church in Chico.
Jack Schmitz and Sons Funeral
Home will be In charge of the serv-
ices.
Byrd's body Is to be returned to
his home in North Carolina for in-
terment.
Mrs. Byrd is survived by her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Buck Page.
Ponder, one other sister, Mrs
Hazel McLean, Fort Worth, and a
brother, Curtis Page of Denton.
Byrd Is survived by his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Byrd; two
sisters. Frances and Marianne
Byrd, and a brother. Milton Byrd,
all of Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
A Southern Pacific streamliner
and an automobile smashed togeth-
er Sunday mgbt at a crossing near
Palmer, and four persons died—
part of the loll of 28 violent deaths
In Texas over the week.
The dear!--all reported to
Negroes—were Identified only
mmbers of a Harris family
Palmer, In Central Texas. One per-
son survived the wreck. Hospital
attendants at Ennis said he was
idenUlMd from papers in his bill-
fold as Edward Harris. Tile dead
were believed to be his wife and
children.
Twenty-five of the 28 persons
killed over the weekend died
highways or railroad crossings
Three were shot.
Four men burned to death after
a tiain-iruck collision, five youths
were killed tn an automobile-truck
crash, and three died* when
car plunged off a road
Casualties Lighter
,n I WASHINGTON. Oet 23—IF—
j The Defense Department report -
i ed 34 casualties today in a Ko-
, reen casualty list <No 132) which
w as one of the smallest issued
i since the first few weeks of the
i Korean conflict
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8UNCHON, North Korea, Oct.
23— flv Survivors of the Sunchon
tunnel massacre were saved be-
cause a brigadier general dared
io push into Communist territory
to check a report that American
prisoners of war had been killed
by North Reds
At least 68 American prisoners
were slain by their Red guards
Friday night near ths Sunchon
railway tunnel. 10 miles north of
here
They had been led from a train
into nearby fields under the pre-
text that they were being taken
to supper.
The guards machlnegtinned them
Sixty-six prisoners died on the spot.
Two otliers died, during the night
uf their wounds. Al least 31. many
of them wounded, lived through the
hour-long masaact*. *
Had Brig Gen Frank A Alin
j uf Cleveland. Ohio, nut been su
Heunds and persistent many of the wounded
undoubtedly would not have auigy Uw lunncA
moved in strength into Kudu, on
the Chongchon river north of Sun-
chon. It faced a croaslug ol tha
broad river before it could con-
tinue on toward the Manchurian
border about 70 air line mite*
away.
A ROK First Division task force
was reported in Anju. aouthwsst
of Kunu.
Another First Division task force
was reported nearly 20 miles
northeast of Kunu. It apparently
was making a sweep in search of
Allied prisoner groups. .—
On the east coast, the ROK
capital division thrust newch of cap-
tured Puke hang, it was about 70
miles from the border.
South Korean units captured a
train Sunday carrying five Red
ed States Korean military advi-
sory group did not give details.
The Brit*sh Commonwealth bri-
gade advancing north and north-
west toward Sinanju on the Choog-
chon River waa reported five mite*
north of Sukchon.
British and Australians killed MB
and captured 300 enemy troop*
Sunday in a battle with about 1.-
000 Reds nesr Yongyu south of
Sukchon. The British snd Aussie*
dispersed the Reds in four hours
of shsrp fighting.
Three to four Red
companies tried to fight
vived the bitterly cold night. |
This is the way the atrocity waa i this are*.
discovered: The South Koreans provided a
As assistant divisional command-* kt'J^e and we ^headed for the, tun-
er of the U S. First Cavalry Di-
vision. Allen decided Saturday to
drive by trap from Pyongyang to
Sunchon to check on the progress
of the task force driving North
Thia task force from the First
Cavalry Division had gone north
to link up with American paratroop-
er* who had dropped near Bun-
chon
I went with them
At Bunchon we heard the report
of a massacre al a railroad tun-
nel. No one had any specific in-
formation and this appeared to be
just another rumor. But Alien was
determined to run It down
‘Td never feel right about II."
be said. ’ If we don't du all we
can to find about thia."
The general stopped at the head-
quarters uf the South Korean 8lxtli
LUvUion and requested a gold* to
Hugh Keel JFtns
Neus Tip Auard
Hugh Keel. 1018 Egan, was the
tipster on his toes the past week
and gets the 85 "Scoop of the
settlement; I Week” prize for the first call on
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one man was killed last Monday.
Other tips in the running came
from Duncan McNitzky, Chet Got-
cher. Jimmy Cotten and Raymond
Hilliard.
To be eligible for the "Scoop of
| the Week" prize of 85, a person
u
pastor during that year.
. n.-t a full-time pastor,
a' Circuit Rider. ;
li.cn Patillo was pastor and In 1859
and I860 William Sbaw served as
pastor of the church. The interim
of i860 to 1866. It appears that the
church did not have a pastor That
was during the Civil War. *o I pre-
ne that most of the minister.*
«?tf called Into service William E
B < tes show*
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F.. T. Library
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by Charles Riney
B Fruiter It is the
on Tuesday . docket so | tfcU o^b^uT^R^ord-
i Chronicle detailed information of
against j news events The speed and sc-
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Penton. 2217
be adorned.
i mond brooch, lavalier,
.ie other piece of i
jewelry by now
unusual rock and crystal forma-
tions
The cav* was Aral dlscovarofl
a short time ago during som* near-
by highway construction *orte and
in recent weeks a number of per-
sons have visited it.
The McClelland boy said he bad
gone into the cavern three time*
before yesterday and waa certain
be could find hto way about. <
They wandered through under-
ground chambers and passageway^
to a point about 1.800 feet froaa
the entrance. As they started baote,
all three of their carbide lights
failed one after another.
Left in pitch darknees. they d*>
elded to sit down and wait tag
FMCUCFB.
One of five reecue groups. UStfig I
twtne safety lima to permit |t sate
return to the entrance, -tibi on
the little group. They were to a
large chamber about 38 foot from
floor to celling — a weird setting i
of stalagmite*, stalaUee aad wMfr I
ring bat* I
Young Msrbie Barkleas waa gtaato
some soup and put to bod BMHfla
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While Mrs. Ml her treaded water
and held up tne infant. Miller
rounded up the other three chil-
dren. In the meantime, the bur-
ns , who were cruising alone in
their large craft, had seen the
small boat overturn and were rush-
ing to the rescue. ;
A* the Burris boat and two
row-boat* moved closer. Mrs. Mil-
ler was heard to cry. "Save my
baby!" It developed that Dickie,
the three-year-old boy was miss-
ing. The father quickly found him
on the other side of the boat, which
had righted itself after spilling Ils
passengers
Although he had o«i a ide Jacket.
Dickie had swallowed much water,
and several anxious moments
were spent reviving him on shore.
All tiie Miller children are well
and happy in McKinney today,
however. Miller. 41, an Air Force
veteran. 1* chief librarian at Ash-
burn V A. Hospital in McKinney
"We were lucky that those boats
were around." Miller explained
today. “It was my fault that the
accident happened. I guess. We
must have been going too fast ”
The light boat was equipped with
an outboard motor. The mishap
occurred on the east side of the
lake near Reynolds* Slough told
Dickson Road area). The Burris*
cruiser is berthed at the Hundley
Boat Works on the southwest side
of the lake.
Burris had advised Owner Klb
Hundley of the mishap by shlp-to-
*hore telephone, and Hundley was
standing by to send out more rescue
craft when informed that everyone
was on shore and accounted for.
! Monaco
the 7s~t‘ side of'the l'»ndle 10 000
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i o\ er
i con-
the
In regard to the founding of the
Methodist Church in Denton. I
found some data in my mother*
diary that may be of interest to
many peoplt," said Dick Goode
■ 1 he papers show that the first
Methodist Church in Denton was
<>i janized In 1857 by Rev. Willlsm
Bates and that he served as
He was
then he
In 1858 Wil-
Bell-ringing and tiie ringing
words of Rep Ed Gossett will
hnthlight United Nations Day cele-
brations here Tuesday.
Th* Gossett program will begin
at 11 am on t
court house and 11 03 » m i
time designated for peoples
the world to ring cells tn
junction with the ringing of
Freedom Bpli in Berlin
During Tuesday morning * pro-
gram a flag — made by Denton
• County women—will be presented
’to County Judge Gerald Rtockard
for the county.
Rev. Joseph J. Copeland will give j
the invocation The North Texas
State College band will play for :
the occasion.
County Agent Al Peltv will be j
master of ceremonies and a large ’
delegation of special guests will
be seated on the platform
At that time we had no troops in | slnj wounds and easing the paid of
| the wounded.
Then Capt. Robert Brenstein.
Yonkers. N Y„ arrived to give
expert medical aid. Bernstein was
from the paratroop outfit near
Sunchon
One gaunt wounded boy—Pic.
Valdor John of Milwaukee—stood
trembling while waiting for some-
one to help him over a ridge.
"I'm cold." he said apologetically.
Allen quickly took off his Jacket
and draped it about the boy s shoul-
der*
"I’m promoting you to * one-
star general.‘F Allen smiled
John said; "But I'm awfully dir-
ty. air. And I'm pretty lousy '*
Alton replied: "Don't yon wor-
ry about that.”
Slowly the men moved over Ute
ridge—-pitifully emaciated figures
were carried In Utters Improvised
from mats and poles Survivors
were pu^ on truck* brought up by
the South Koreans and taken back
down the road to Sunchon
Most *4 Uicnt were taken to a
"fl
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from a used
Sunday carried
their death
other* were Injured.
Dead are Robert Byrd, 23; his
wife, Mr*. Marie Byrd. 22, and
Mrs Byrd's sister, Caroline Page,
8. all of Ponder.
Injured were two other sisters.
Mary Francis Page. 16 and Betty
Lynn Page. 19. both of Ponder.
Betty suffered a broken knee-cap
and Frances cute and bruise*. They
are In the Denton Hospital and
Clinic.
The 8-year-old girl waa killed
Instantly when the car plunged
over an embankment ebout a mile
south of Ponder on FM 156. into
a water-filled ditch, shortly before
noon.
Mrs. Byrd died en route to the
Denton Hospital and Clinic and
Byrd died at the hospital about 45
minute* later.
Betty Page was apparently
thrown through the windshield of
the car She dragged herself out
of the ditch and onto the highway
and stopped a passing motorist.
The Byrds on their way to
Justrn to gel medicine for their
4-month - old - daughter. Paulette
Carol, when the accident occurred.
A broken tie-rod was apparently
the cause of the accident.. Chief
Deputy E. D. Dawaon said.
Byrd had lived at Ponder with
hl* wife for only eight months
They were married in Fort Worth.
March 18. 1948. while he was In the
Army He received hi* discharge
May 26 of this year.
Funeral services for Mrs Byrd
and her .sister were to be held at
out all enemy resistance.
As the Allied' tide rolled north-
ward, the bag of Red Korean pris-
oners swelled past the 120,000
mark, the equivalent of 12 divisions.
United Nations forces captured
26.000 North Korean troops In the
past 24 hours.
South Korean Eighth Division
troops met the stiffest Red resist-
ance of the day. An enemy bat-
talion supported by artillery -at-
tempted to slow the ROK advance
in the Pukchang area, 50 miles
northeast of Pyongyang, the fallen
Red capital.
But a spokesman at U.S. Eighth
Army headquarters said a ROK
column had thrust north of Hul-
chong, almost another 50 miles
north of Pukchang In the center of
the peninsula.
This column was within 50 miles
or less of the Manchurian border.
The South Korean Sixth Division
was pursuing the Reds up a new
escape route toward Kanggye, re-
ported to be Red Premier Kim's
new army command headquarters.
Leading ROK Sixth Division ele-
ments were tn Woncham. 18 miles
southwest of Huichon.
The Fifth Ait* Force reported
heavy traffic in yehlclea and troops
on foot moving north from Huichon
toward Kanggye.
The South Korean first division
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{Scout Finance
Drive To Open
Dr John A. Ouinn. president of
Texas State Collage for Women,
will be the main speaker at a
boy scout kickoff breakfast to be
held Tuesday, starting at 7; 15
o’clock, tn Hubbard Hall on the
TSCW campus. Purpose of the
breakfast will be to launch a Scout
finance campaign that will b* held
over Denton Tuesday.
More than IV Scout workers art
expected to attend the break vast.
Tom Harpool. Jr., district finance
chairman, will preside. Assisting
him In the finance drive ar* W.
See SCOUT Page 2
An inquest verdict of accidental
death was returned today in the
shooting of Virginia Louise Gentry,
17, at the Lewisville home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert 8.
Gentry Sunday afternoon.
The Inquest was ordered when
the girl was found lying across a
bed in an upstairs room by her
parents, after they heard a gun
blast. A 410 gauge shotgun was
by her side and she was bleeding
from a wound in her head.
She was given emergency treat-
ment by a Lewisville doctor and
died in an ambulance on the way
to a Denton hospital.
Justice of the Peace Z. D. Lew-
is. who investigated the shooting
with Deputies E D Davis and
Homer Barns, withheld the ver-
dict until today.
Miss Gentry had come home for
the week end from Dallas where
sire was a freshman at Hockaday
Junior College.
Deputy Davis said Mrs. Gentry
had talked with her daughter Just
a few minutes beiore the shooting.
"Virginia warded me to go to
the cemetery to place some flow-
ers on her grandmother s grave.”
Mrs. Gentry told Davis. "1 told |
her I couldn't go and suggested
she take a girl friend with her."
Mrs. Gentry said the girl then
went upstairs and the shot
heard a few minutes later
Funeral services for Miss Gen-
try were to be held at 3 _______________
today in the Methodist Church at p m Sundav at Lake Dallas,
r o... , -------- _.<n RebCU.M were Mr and By.
ron Miller, their five-year-old
daughter, SafaiL and three sons,
sptneer, 4. Dickie. 3, and Tommy,
1.
Spencer and the infant boy were
taken ashore In the 33-foot cabin
and Mrs. Clark
Small fishing
the bride
Tbeppuple said 'our'
Mikrrlf^Charles Palmaro as more I
than 100 guests watched and a !
crowd of 3.000 chattered excitedly
in the city hall courtyard.
The best man for the Austra-
lian-born. 41 year-old Flynn was
his fellow countryman, yachtsman
Fred McEvoy. McEvoy's wife.
Claude, was matron of honor for
the ?4-year-old bride from Salina,
I Ka*
7 here was no mob scene, though I
police had been moblhz-
“ ---- -----v News-
men and photographers tar out-
numbered the guest*
This afternoon the couple was
to drive to Nice. 20 miles away,
for a religious wedding In the Lu-
theran Church of the Transfigura-
I tion.
The tall, redheaded Mias Wy-
more wore a light, street length
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DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
Slxty-slx Americans
machinegunned 40
of Pyongyang, the
Are Postponed
Three civil suits were settled out
of court and three others continued I one-year-old had on life jackets,
in a bilef session of County Judge!
Gerald Stockard * court here this I
morning.
An incomplete jury for the sec-
ond week of the court s current |
session postponed additional pro- j
ceedings until Tuesday morning j
Disputes mediated included Cart-)
aright vs London Insurance Co,
a suit for insurance r*'*’-----*'
City of Denton vs. Lonnie Norris, i J”
suit for condemnation; and City of |
Denton vs. W A Moore, also a
suit for condemnation.
Set for 9 a m Tuesday 1* a suit
on contract by Charles
against T B Frwter It
lone case
far
A condemnation suit
Mrs Ovee Smith by the City oflcuracy of the information is taken
Denton has been continued indef- mto consideration when final Ju<lg-
inltely by mutual agreement. Post- j ltlg is made on the winner* each
poned until Wednesday was the! week
To report tip a person should
prospective jurors j call the Record-Chronic If. 2090.
called for dutx were selected this j and adc for the news department,
morning for duty. Many reporting
were excused.
Accepted were O. L. Hester. Den-
ton. Clifford Cotton. Denton.
Harvey PXiwler. Sanger
The remaining nine jurors neces- j
sary for the 12-inan panel are to'
be chosen Tuesday morning
Additional criminal cases on the
docket will be heard Thursday.
blu* suit
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