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Red China Elects "Safe" Ran In
Fear Of Getting A Joseph Stalin
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Prew Foreign Analyst
The Chi Me st- t \. I ; ii i at - -v j
dently have decided to protect
themselves against th possibility
that a counter| :iit of Ru;,.ia's Jus
ef Stalin might succeed Mao.Tse-
Fight To Follow
Baseball On TV
CLEVELAND, Oct. 1 <TPl—
Sports interest switches from bust-
bail to boxing here Friday night
when a nationally-televised fight
card is presented at Central Arm-
ory only several hout after the
end of the World Series game at
Municipal Stadium, two blocks
away.
Heavyweights Bob Baker of
Pittsburgh and Col.-, Wallace of
New York tangle in the 10-round
feature attraction.
Both have impressive knockout
records. Baker has won 38 of his
pro lights, 18 by knockouts. Wal-
lace has KO'd l.r> "f his 23 profes-
sional opponents and won another
five on decisions.
Baker, in 194!), gained a three-
round decision over Wallace when
both fought aamateurs. Wallace
will be remembered as the young-
ster who played the part of Joe
Louis in the recent film biugrophv
of the one-time world champion.
He also owns the only victory over
present Champion Rocky Marci-
ano, achieved b' fore either man
had turned pmfi • ,onai.
Tung as their leader.
In naming Gen. Chu Teh as
Mao's political heir, the Reds have
chosen a "safe" man.
There was considerable surprise
when the first Chinese Communist
constitutional congress, meeting in
Peiping this week,' selected Chu as
Mao's -deputy and No. 2 man.
It had been expected that-ambi-
tious, intriguing Liu Sb*« Chi, the
chief party theoretician^ or schol-
arly, suave Premier Foreign Min-
ister Chou En-Lai would.be' named.
Chu has had a brilliant career
as a soldier and is commander in
chief of the Chinese Communist
armies.
Chu is not the "strong man"
type. As he approaches his 68th
year, he hds been called feeble, a
museum piece, a decoration on the
reviewing stand. And that, appar-
ently, is why he is in line for
leadership.
Communism by Committee
Events in Russia have shown
that world communism wants no
more strong men for a while. Stal-
in, elevated to Red sainthood dur-
ing his life, lost his halo before
his coffin was sealed. The Kremlin
now has committee rule.
Chu's succession to Chinese
Communist leadership would in-
sure committee rule in Peiping.
His appointment no doubt was de-
cided upon as a safeguard against
a •ruggle for power when Mao
dies, and the emergence of a Chi-
nese Stalin.
Chu is regarded as the one man
who t-ouid pull together-all the fac-
tions in Red China, and he is pop-
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M<-rat «'t ' -s i - it'
s.\ • r U'>iti to crash ' Evtryth e
went black." 11 is w s about 1:80
a. in., an hour arid half t«"ter the
party had left Pueblo.
Apparently the plane was caught
in a downdratt. Nicholson flipped
off the ignition as his ciaft hur-
tled earthward, preventing a firs
after the crash.
Not Told His Dad Dead
Undersberiff Harold Thonoff
said it was lucky that the Nichol-
son boy's attempt to buitd a fire
at the scene of the crash failed,
because Tuck could not move and
strong winds probably would have
fanned the flames into a forest
fire.
"Yon have to see that valley to
appreciate what a plucky boy he
ia," Thonoff said of Richard. "It'<?
nothing but rocks and thick timber
arid he's small for his age."
The Nicholson boy and Tuck
were both in a state of shock and
under heavy sedation at Rio
Grande Hospital here. Doctors be-
lieved they would have recovered
sufficiently to tell more of their
harrowing escape from death later
Friday.
Richard still does not know his
father is dead.
Rain
ular throughout the country.
■ He has a broad peasant's face
with weather beaten skin. He in-
clines to stoutness. He talks little.
He was born of a peasant fam-
ily. .-He was- graduated from mili-
tary academy. Entering the army,
he embarked on the old-style Chi-
nese officer's' life. He amassed
wealth, maintained eight concu-
bines, gambled and smoked opium.
Gave Up Women, Dope
In 1922 there came a sudden,
never-explained change. Chu pen
sioned off his concubines, stopped
gambling and threw away his op-
ium pipes. He suffered tortures
trying to break the terrible grip
of the opium habit. Fearing he was
weakening, he got on a British
Yangtze River ship, where there
was no opium.. He sailed up and
down the river, never going ashore.
Finally he landed, weak Dut clear-
eyed and cured.
Chu went to Germany and
France to study and then to Mos-
cow. There he became a Commu-
nist. He returned home and helped
form the new Red army. Soon he
was its leader.
Chu fought the Nationalists,
fought along the Nationalists
against the Japanese, and then de-
feated the Nationalists in the eivil
war.
It is due to Chu as much as to
any man that the Reds will li-
able -to celebrate Friday the fifth
anniversary of their proclamation
of a "people's" republic.
Now At Your Dealers!
at regular price
(Continued From Paee One)
2*-irat. «• ii r- « u :i.
O h«!t'«ise tti, two tennis «o i i •
the gat . - at alu.oM ei, .al strength.
Bret-ken r idge's show ing in the
first tfc'K games has been more
impressive than that of Abilene.
Four Buck backs have rolled up
781 yards between them in two
games while the Eagles have gain-
ed only 371 yards rushing total.
Clyde Harris, right half, has lef*
the Bucks with 276 yards in 23
i-arries. He has scored three touch
downs and nine points after touch
down for 27 points.
Ground Gainers
Fullback Uick Carpenter has
picked up 268 yards in 23 car-
ries; Left Half Jake Sandet'er has
147 yards in 22 tries, and Quarter-
back Bennett Watts has carried
25 times for 90 yards.
The Bucks will depend on i
heavier tine than last year ami a
crew of lightning quick ba<ks. This
combination held Wichita Falls and
Brownwood to a total of 20 points.
But Abilene's defense has been
a strong point so far this season.
Abilene, which has tried passing
with a fair degree of success, will
iikely take to the air more agains:
Breckenridge Friday night.
H. S. Games Thursday
Games played Thursday resulted
as follows:
Dallas Forest 13, Fort Worth
Riverside 12.
Fort Worth Tech 6, Dallas Tech
0.
Mount Vernon 13, Atlanta 6.
Texarkana B at New Boston,
ppd, rain.
San Antonio Lanier 7, South
San Antonio 0.
LaFeria 44, McAllen B 6.
Harlingen B at Rio Hondo, ppd.,
rain.
Harlingen Frosh at Port Isabel,
ppd., rain.
Luting 33, Lockhart 6.
Three Rivers 32, Karnes City 6.
Houston Milby 26, Houston St.
Thomas 0.
Jarrell 19, Buda 6.
White Settlement 21, Azle 0.
Troy 21, Monor 7.
Cherokee 14, Llano B 6.
Wortham 13, Teague B 0.
COLLEGE
Kilgore JC 73, Blinn JC 6.
Texas A&M Freshmen 31, Hous-
ton Freshmen 6.
Nevada WW Vote
On New Senator
K, N't", • O ' •' —V'-"
vada voters will choose a sucees
sor to tne Democratic late Cen.
Pat McCarran in the Nov. Z elec-
tion, provided both parties enter
candidates Friday.
Attorney General William Math-
ews ruled the voters and not Re-
publican Gov. Charles Russell will
decide on McCarran's successor.
Howevei, Mathews said Russell
may make a temporary appoint-
ment of a senator to serve until
Jan. 3, 1955.
Russell said he will appoint a
Republican to serve in the Senate
until then.
Mathews said the Democratic
and Republican State Central com-
mittees have the right to nominate
candidates to fill the two-year bal-
ance of McCarran's unexpired
term.
The nominations must be filed
with the secretary of state by 5
p. m., tpst) Friday.
Brownwood Lady
KSKed In Crash
BROWNWOOD, Tex., Oct. 1 lEKt
—Mrs. Peggy June Oiler, 23, of
Brownwood, was killed Thursday
and five other persons injured in
a two-car collision 13 miles west
of here on U. S. 84.
Authorities said Mrs. Oiler's car
was struck by one driven by Lloyd
S. -Laird, Goldthwaite. Laird was
charged with driving while'intoxi-
cated..
Laird was injured, as were Mrs.
Oiler's, two children, her sister;
Mrs. Gayle McLane of Brownwood,
and Mrs. McLane's son, Mike, 3.
parent ,or child, from $7.40 to
$20.20 for a widow and one child
and from $5.10 to $28.20 for a wid-
ow and two children.
VirJi FLINT
McCarthy Floods
For Full Hearing
WASRING'lOM, Oct. 1 (U> -
pen. jrseph tt. ricCirtii ias -i-
pealed to his fellow senators to
hear his "full argument" before
deciding how they will vo^e on a
motion to censure him when the
Senate reconvenes Nov. 8.
The plea was made on McCar-
thy's behalf Thursday by his at-
torney, Edward Bennett Williams,
in a "bill of exceptions" to a re-
port highly critical of the Wiscon-
sin Repblican by the Senate Cen-
sure committee.
The committee recommended
that McCarthy be censured on two
counts—contempt of a Senate sub-
committee that investigated his fi-
nances in 1961-52 aud abuse of
Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker.
Williams claimed the recom-
mendations were contrary to Sen-
ate precedents and that the censure
committee refused to hear McCar-
thy's full defense against the
charges.
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Feed On Ground
At Odessa Show
ODESSA, Tex., Oct. 1 (UJ!)—The
popular "feed on the grounds" will
be held again this year at he Per-
mian Basin oil show opening Oct.
14 for., a-lour-day run in Odessa.
' The gigantic outdoor feed is put
on by the Odessa ■ Chuck Wagon,
biade up of' some 200 businessmen
wtho last year-fed some 16,00. per-
sons who filed through the chow
tines in less- than two hours.
The feed.this year will be held
at,5 p. m. Saturday, Oct. 16, and
from 18,000 to 20,000 hungry guests
are expected. Eighteen serving
lines were put up for last year's
feed.
Final Apflumoiitt
In Shaver Trial
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F*ii h) a e'tment! > -re .-tin-.uleT
Friday in tne rape-murder trial or
Aiiin- ii Jimmy Shaver, indicted
for tie death of three-year-old
Chere Jo Horton at San Antonio.
Shaver, 30, displayed no emotion
Thursday when defense witnesses
tried to establish his insanity. He
was found sane by a jury before
the trial began. . .
Mai. Louis West, psychiatrist at
Lackland Air Force Base where
Shaver wa3 stationed, testified
again that he thought the Grape-
land, Tex., man was insane last
July 3 when the Horton girl was
killed.
Sheriff J. P. Williamson, a re-
buttal witness for the prosecution,
testified that Shaver dropped his
stoic attitude when he left the
courtroom each day.
Williamson said Shaver acted
normally, was talkative and hun-
gry, and chain-smoked cigareta.
Shaver lias not smoked in the pres-
ence of the jury.
Board Cuts Fay
Of "Fired" AHred
AUSTIN, Oct. 1 <U.P>—The State
Board of Insurance Commissioners
resorted to its power of the purse
Thursday in a dispute with Renne
Allred Jr., general counsel of the
board's liquidator.
The board announced two weeks
ago that Allred was fired and ap-
pointed Emmett SheHon to his
post. But he refused to accept the
board's order and said he was
responsible to three district courts
in Austin.
The commissioners Thursday cut
off Allred's salary and those of
his four assistants: V. F. Taylor,
Byron Lockhart, Fred Werkenthin,
and W. O. Bowers, III.
Tornado KW ®jrl
At Minerva. Ohio
(By UNITED PRESS) ....
"k tornado killed a three-year-old
Kir| in Ohio and wind storms lash-
ed Oklahoma Thursday night as a
cool wave settled over most ot the
nation's western half. .
A Minerva, Ohio, area girl was
killed and three members of her
family were injured when the
twister demolished their home. A
burn was also destroyed -and util-
ity lines were down in the region.
Near Tulsa, Okie-three anr-
pJanes were destroyed ami foui
others were injured by a wind
storm. Welcome rains, measuring
four inches or more, pelted parts
of the state and Ardmore was
drenched by 6, Its inches in six
h°Heavy rains fell elsewhere in the
South, measuring 2.37 inches at
Corpus C'hristi, Tex., -. <- at Chat-
tanooga, Tenn., and 2.15 at New
Orleans, La.
Frisker Turns Up
Drank Si. Trusty
SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 1 (UP)—
Testing of the San Antonio city
jail's new electronic "frisker"—
designed to detect metallic objects
on prisoners—turned up a drunk
trusty.
Police Inspector E. P. Bogasch
decided to tedt the machine Thurs-
day and found three trusties re-
turning from a work detail. Two (
passed with flying colors. --- V
The third, however, registered a
high amo'int of alcoholic fumes—
detected by Bogash's nose. The
prisoner apparently had sneaked a
drink while he was supposed to be
washing police cars.
He wan re-boolced for "drunk
white a trusty," and later" paid a
$10 fine.
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NATO
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up by Belgian Foreign Minister
Arms Pool Studied
3. That the French idea of an
arms pool and an allocation of
armaments under the Brussels
pact was "sound." The idea was
referred to a working group for
study.
The arms pool would prohibit
manufacture of certian arms in
strategically exposed areas, con-
trol arms manufacture and decide
where and when new arms factor-
ies may be established.
4. That each Brussels treaty pow-
er, including Germany and Italy,
will have a veto on the number of
troops contributed by member na-
tions to a common army. This veto
was requested by Mendes-Franee.
NATO will set the minimum troop
contribution and "the Brussels or-
ganization will set the maximum
contribution. The level of troop
contribution must have unanimous
approval—thus the veto power.
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sia previously has insisted on a
one-third, across the-board reduc-
tion—of their armed strength, and I
their military expenditures.
3. Within six months—or one
year, Vishinsky said, alternately—
the armed strength and appropria-
tions would be cut one half of the.
agreed reduction.
4. A temporary control commis
sion would be established to re-
ceive necessary information on
armed strength and its reduction.
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Social Security
Pay Checks Hated
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 <H.E>—So-
cial security benefits will be boost-
checks Monday.
The government will mail out the
bigger benefit checks to the bene-
ficiaries Saturday, the Social Se-
curity Administration announced.
The recipients will be retired
workers and families of workers
who have died.
The higher payments, amounting
to about $36 million a month, are
part of a new law broadening the
social security program. Other pro-
visions, including extension of so-
cial security insurance coverage to
over 66 who are covered by the
old age insurance program and
from $7.50 to $20.30 for retired
workers with wives over 65.
For survivors of workers who
were covered by the social secur-
ity program, the increases range
fom $3.80 to $11.20 a month for
a single survivor widow, widower,
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