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VOLUME XXXII
NUMBER 208
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Eisenhower Will Accept If Nominated
For President By Republican Party
Vishinsky Says Korean Truce
Talk Deadlocked; Asks UN Help
Congress Returns
To Work Tuesday
Ford Tractor Agency
Is Established Here
By Hess And Conroy
Britain's Reserve
Of Gold And Silver
Dangerously Low
Negro Airmen Are
Charged With Dope
Sales Wichita Falls
Kefauver Entered As Candidate
For President By Democrats
E.D. Anderson Is
Buried Monday At
Farmer's Academy
Seven Persons Die
In Apartment Fire
Orville D. Mills, 50,
Succumbs Friday
At Local Hospital
Mass Meeting Will
Protest Increase
In Telephone Rales
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asphyxiation.
The latest
WICHITA FALLS, Jan. 7 (P)—
Five of 14 persons arrested in
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"BABY OF YEAR”—IS FAMILY'S 18TH—Sixteen of Mrs. Bernard Wagner’s children gather around
her hospital bed in Alexandria, Minn., to greet the 18th member of the family, a 9 pound, 8 ounce boy
who won the Alexandria jackpot of prizes for being first born in the community for 1952. On hand
for the mass reunion were Erma, 23; Bernard Jr., 21, Donna, 18; Joan, 16; Earl, 15; Annette, 13; Al-
lan, 12; Darryl, 11; Donald 10; Dorris, 9, birthday Jan. 2, and winner of the 1943 "baby of the year"
derby; Myron, 7; Barbara, 6; Twins Dean and Dennis, 4; Sharon, 3; Ronald, 2; Wagner, who farms
200 rented acres near Alexandria, and Mrs. Joe W agner, Pfc. Leo Wagner, serving with the Air Force
at San Antonio, Texas. Bernard, also a Pfc. is home on furlough from the same base. (AP Wlirephoto)
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western front fought firecely in
sub-freezing weather toward a
prize outpost lost to the Reds
Dec. 28.
REMARKABLY LIFELIKE effigy of a British soldier hangs from a line
across one of the main streets of Cairo, strung up by Egyptian ex-
tremists. Sign reads, “Gallows Awaits the Necks of the British.” With
the British determined to remain in the Suez canal zone, extremists
ran a front page ad in a Cairo paper offering $2,800 reward for anyone
assassinating Lt. Gen. Sir George Erskine, British commander in Suez,
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Destroyed By Fire
Friday Afternoon
The country home of Mr. and
Mrs. Odell Russell, of the Oak
Grove community, was complete-
ly destroyed by fire about 3:30
o’clock Friday afternoon. All con-
tents of the structure were lost
in. the blaze, also.
The house was owned by Mrs.
R. L. Hamlin of Dallas, but had
been occupied by the Russell
family for sometime. The fire
was believed to have started in
a closet of the house, but its
origin is unknown.
earth and scored on 10.
U. S. losses, if any, were
reported.
Allied ground forces on
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SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 7 (P) —
Mashing U. S. jet planes destroy-
ed seven Russian-built MIG-15
jets and damaged 12 in two days
of renewed furious air fighting
higher over northwest Korea.
U. S. sabres shot down two
MIGs and damaged two on Mon-
day. The day before, U. S. planes
blasted five of the Red jets to
Violent Deaths in Texas Still
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LONELY LITTLE GIRL PLAYS
EAST TEXAS AND SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS: Partly cloudy
and warmer tonight and Tuesday.
Moderat.? variable winds on the
coast becoming east to southeast
tonight and Tuesday.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS:
Partly cloudy tonight and Tues-
day Warmer tonight.
WEST TEXAS: Partly cloudy
tonight and Tuesday.
LOUISIANA: Clear to partly
cloudy and a little warmer to-
night Tuesday partly cloudy and
warmer.
LONDON, Jan. 7 (A) — Hard-
up Britain announced today sterl-
ing area’s vital gold and dollars
reserves had slumped $934 million
in the last quarter of 1951.
Britain thus entered the new
year with gold and dollar re-
serves of $2,335, billion the low-
est since the middle of 1950.
Included in the last three-
month outpouring of gold and
dollars was 176 million paid as in-
terest and principal to Canada
and the United States on postwar
loans.
Other factors responsible for
the big loss, the British treasury
said, included:
1. Deduction in the dollar earn-
ings through exports by the sterl-
ing area.
2. A “continued high level" of
buying of dollar imports.
3. A deficit in Britain’s trade
with other sterling countries and
with Western Europe.
Britain had to spend $78 mil-
lion in gold to settle its deficit
with the European Payments Un-
ion in this quarter.
Howard Seidel, 52, was found
stabbed to death in his car early
Sunday about 11 miles west of
Victoria. Officers said wounds in
the groceryman’s chest and ab-
domen were made by his own
pocket knife.
The body of Lee Clyde Freder-
ick, 70, Abilene, was found on the
banks of a creek northwest of
Abilene. An inquest verdict of ac-
cidental drowning was returned.
James Norman Young, 23, Sun-
ray, Moore County, was killed
early Sunday when his car skid-
ded out of control on an ice-coat-
ed curve and overturned five
miles east of Quanah.
Mrs. Grace Rodriguez, 65, San
Antonio, died Sunday of injuries
received Saturday afternoon
when struck by a car as she walk-
ed across a street.
Joe Cheskeskie, about 70, burn-
ed to death in a rooming house
fire Sunday in Orange, Two oth-
er roomers were seriously burn-
ed.
Miss Betty Briton, 68, Anadar-
ko, Okla., was killed Sunday in
an automobile accident three
miles south of Salado.
Mrs. J. W. O’Bryan, 93, was
fatally burned at her home in
Rankin Sunday when she stum-
bled against a kerosene heater
and the flaming fuel splashed
over her clothing.
Mrs. Leach, 35, Sweetwater,
was fatally injured early Sunday
when the car in which she was
riding overturned five miles east
of Sweetwater.
Robert Dorton Tobola, 24, stu-
dent at the University of South-
ern California, was found dead
in his car at Houston Saturday.
A hose, attached to the exhaust
pipe, had been run into the car.
Justice of Peace Tom Maes ruled
the death a suicide.
Mrs. Jeanette Pizzitola, 47, was
killed in an auto accident at
Houston Saturday. Lavone Evans,
29, an ambulance driver en route
to the accident, was injured in
another crash. He died several
hours later.
Marcus L. Gillum, 30, Edna,
died a few hours after being
found in an apartment with a
bullet wound in his right Temple.
A .38 caliber pistol was found at
his side. Justice of Peace Joe
Cherry ruled the death a suicide.
section of Wichita
LONDON. Jan. 7 W — King
George VI will make an ocean
health cruise to South Africa in
March and April, Buckingham
Palace announced today.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (A) —
Rep. Hays (D-Ohio) announced
today a complete slate of dele-
gates will be entered in the Ohio
Damocratic primaries for Sen.
Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn) for the
presidential nomination.
Hays made his announcement
at a news conference.
Ohio law requires a candidate
another died
Governor Inducts 3
Members of House
AUSTIN, Jan. 7 (A) — Gov.
Allan Shivers today administered
the oath of office to three new
members of the Texas House of
Representatives.
They were Thomas Joseph,
Waco, Richard Stark, Gainesville,
and W. A. Strohman, San Angelo.
All were elected in special elec-
tions following resignations of in-
cumbent.
restive under the feeling uncer-
tainty as to Eisenhower’s position
was letting Sen. Taft of Ohio,
first to announce as a candidate,
get off to a long lead in bidding
for support.
The "go ahead” which Eisen-
hower in effect gave his back-
ers today will let them press
their campaign for him with more
assurance.
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Funeral sesvices were held at
Bridges Chapel at 2:30 o’clock
Saturday afternoon, under direc-
tion of Rev. Leland Broughton,
for Orville Derrell Mills, resident
of the north part of this county.
Burial was in the Bridges Cha-
pel cemetery.
Mr. Mills was 50 years of age
and was a vet- ran of World War
One. He passed away at Mt.
Pleasant Hospital and Clinic at
11:00 o’clock Friday morning af-
ter an illness of about a year.
Mr. Mills is survived by his
wife; four sons, James A. Mills,
Talco; Redell Mills, Maplewood,
La; C. S. Mills, Talco, and Win-
fred Zack Mills, also of this coun-
ty; his mother, Mrs. Lula Banis-
ter of Odessa; two brothers. Mal
colm Mills, Amarillo, and Wayne,
Mills of Wichita Falls; one sister,
Mrs. Maggie Tidwell of Illinois;
two-sisters, Mrs. Ruby Wood,
Odessa, and Miss Ramie Banister
of Amarillo; two step-brothers,
Martin Banister of Memphis, Tex-
as, and Wesley Banister of Plain-
view. and two gi andchildren.
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Life shattering traffic crashes
kept up their usual horrid pace
in Texas over 1952’s first week-
end with auto and truck accidents
causing half of the 12 violent
deaths reported.
Two persons burned to death,
one died in a shooting, one by
drowning, one was stabbed to
Last November, after a group
of Republicans started a new
boom and some of them had con-
ferred with Ike, he kept the door
open.
From then on the GOP group
backing Eisenhower for their
Presidential nomination insisted
with fresh emphasis that he
would be available.
But even yesterday, Lodge,
when saying Eisenhower's name
would be entered in the GOP
New Hampshire Primary, con-
ceded he had no direct authori-
zation from the General to take
that step.
Apparently, however. Lodge
had reasons to expect some early
statement from Eisenhower. But
the 22-hour wait, before the
statement actually was issued,
seemingly was longer than the
Senator anticipated.
H. L. Hess, Jr., and John Con-
roy have formed a local partner-
ship and have announced the
opening of an agency for the
distribution of Ford tractors and
Dearborn farm equipment. The
agency will be located at 1420
North Jefferson.
The company, to be known as
Hess-Conroy Tractor, will han-
dle New Holland balers and for-
age harvesters and other New
Holland equipment. Parts and
service will be featured for all
implements carried, they said.
Arrangements have been made
to modernize the building now
occupied. A modern showroom
will be erected across the front
of the structure and a large sup-
ply room and shop will be built
on the back.
The company also announces
the appointment of Leon Gris-
som, formerly with Daffer Truck
& Implement Company, as sales-
man and field representative. He
will be available at all times for
discussions on modern farming
machinery.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (P) —
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower pro-
claimed himself a Republican to-
day and made it clear he would
accept that party’s Presidential
nomination if it is offered. But
he won't actively seek it.
In a Paris statement, the 61-
year-old General swept away
much of the fog of uncertainty
that has swirled for the last five
years about his place in the pic-
ture of presidential possibilities.
His statement was promoted by
the week-end move by Sen. Lodge
(R-Mass) who announced (a)
Eisenhower's name would be
entered in the March 11 New
Hampshire Primary, and (b)
there would be a “finish fight”
to win the GOP nomination for
the General.
Eisenhower, who has been talk-
ed as both a Democratic and a
Republican Presidential possibili-
ty, made these main points in his
statement:
1. He said Lodge was correct
in calling him a Republican.
2. He has no intention of ask-
ing that he be relieved of his
present assignment as leader of
the European defense forces.
3. He will not take part in pre-
convention activities of those
seeking the nomination for him.
4. He recognizes the right of
others to engage in an attempt
“to place before me next July
(when the Republican conven-
tion meets) a duty that would
transcend my present responsi-
bility.”
Eisenhower's statement tremen-
dously cheered Republicians who
have been working for his nomi-
nation and have felt themselves
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WESTFIELD, Mass., Jan. 7 (P)
— At least seven persons perish-
ed in a $1,000,000 five-story a-
partment-business block fire last
night.
Firemen still poured water in-
to the smouldering ruins more
than 12 hours after the blaze as
they awaited permission to search
the debris.
Omy a shell remained today af-
ter the entire five floors collaps-
ed into the basement.
Fourteen persons at first were
believed to have perished, but
seven later were accounted for.
Fifteen persons were injured,
13 seriously enough to be kept
at Noble Hospital. The other two
were discharged.
Fire Chief Jeremiah Moriarty
said the walls were in danger of
collapsing and no one would be
allowed to enter the ruins until an
inspection by state fire marshal
William J. Puzzo and Westfield
building inspector Ralph Sizer
has been completed.
Ht. -pleasant Haily Uimes
___ Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Daily Times, Monday Evening, Jaunary 7, 1952
Falls were charged today with
violation of the narcotics laws.
Nine of the arrested and all
of the five charged were airmen.
Sheriff Emmett Vance said all
were Negroes and named the
following as those charged:
Pvt. Felix Robinson, 21, Berkel-
ey, Calif., stationed at Sheppard
Air Force Base at Wichita Falls.
Pvt. Joe Johnson, 23, home ad-
dress unknown, stationed at
Carswell Air Force Base, Fort
Worth.
Pfc. Alvin Zilton, 22, New
Orleans, Sheppard AFB.
Pvt. Sherman William Morris,
18, Longview, Texas, Sheppard
AFB.
Cpl. Carlton L. Orr, 19, New
York City, Sheppard AFB.
Vance said only his Wichita
County sheriff’s department and
the Sheppard AFB office of
special investigation took part in
the raids.
He described Johnson as the
“runner” who carried .marihuana
from Fort Worth to Wichita
Falls. Ten Marihuana cigarettes
were found on the persons arrest-
ed, he added.
Three women were among the
five Wichita Falls negro civilians
arrested. Questioning of persons
not charged continued today.
Ernest DeWitt Anderson, resi-
dent of this county for the past
fifty-five years, passed away at
his home in the Adams Chapel
community at 10:20 o'clock Sat-
urday morning, from the effects
of a lingering illness. He had
been in bad health for the past
three years.
Mr. Anderson was almost 80
years of age and is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Emma Anderson:
two sons, Arthur Anderson, Dal-
las, and Fred Anderson, Long-
view; two daughters, Miss Alta
Mae Anderson, Marshall, and
Mrs. Ola Currey, Dallas; one bro-
ther, Winfred Anderson of this
county, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services, under direc-
tion of Rev. John D. McClung,
were held at Farmer’s Academy
at 3:00 o’clock Monday afternoon,
with burial in the nearby ceme-
tery.
WACO, Jan. 7 (TP) — A mass
meeting was scheduled in Waco
today to protest a proposed city
ordinance that would boost tele-
phone rates by 28 per- cent.
A group of businessmen who
called the meeting said the pro-
posed increase would boost
Southwest Bell Telephone Com-
pany’s annual income by $221,748.
Fourth and final reading of the
ordinance is set for a meeting of
the board of aidermen Jan. 15.
Leaders of those opposed to the
rate increase said the mass meet-
ing today was called to raise
money for an anticipated federal
court action.
Mayor L. M. Crow told busi-
nessmen “that if the citizens
raise a fund, the city dads will
make it possible for the citizens
to carry the ball.”
Acting city manager S. M.
Wilson said $60,000 to $100,000
would be needed to fight the
telephone company in the courts.
Previously, the ordinance grant-
ing the increase passed three
times by a 4 to 2 vote.
LONDON, Jan. 7 (A) — Unsink-
able Capt. Kurt Carlsen and the
Flying Enterprise were halfway
to haven today.
At 8 a.m. (3 a.m. EST) the tug
Turmoil and, the gale-crippled
American freighter sho is towing
were reported 152 miles from the
cornish port of Falmouth. The tug
hoped to make port sometime
Wednesday.
Carlsen’s heroic stand with his
near-sinking vessel, which he re-
fused to leave, had started some
300 miles west of the English
coast, where the Flying Enter-
prise almost capsized in the worst
Atlantic storm in 50 years.
The U. S. destroyer Willard
Keith, escorting the tug and her
charge, reported the little con-
voy’s 8 a.m. position and said
“condition of Enterprise un-
changed.” The message said the
weather was cloudy, with a light
fog, the sea moderate with west-
erly swells, and visibility was
three to six miles.
Heavier weather earlier had
forced the tug to take a zig-zag
cource to ease the strain on the
tow.
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Two other candidates also are
formally in the race — Gov. Earl
Warren of California and Harold
Stassen, president of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania and
former Governor of Minnesota.
Another practical effect of to-
day’s statement was to pull the
rug from under those Democrats
who have been beating the drums
for the nomination of Eisenhower
by their party.
At the White House, aides said
President Truman had no com-
ment on the General’s statement.
There were Eisenhower-for-
President booms in both major
parties in 1948, despite his dis-
avowal of political ambitions.
The booms persisted until he
announced with complete final-
ity that he would not accept such
a nomination even if it were giv-
en to him.
Installation Banquet
Local Kiwanis Club
To Be Held Tonight
The annual installation of of-
ficers banquet for the Mt. Pleas-
ant Kiwanis Club will be held at
the West Ward cafeteria at 7:00
o’clock this evening. Kiwanians
who have not bought their
tickets will find them available
at the door.
No lengthy speeches will be on
the program for the meeting,
club officials said. Instead, most
of the program time will be
filled with the talented high
school choral club, under direc-
tion of Lee Gray.
New officers to be installed in-
clude the Rev. Joe M. Owen,
president; Clifton Smith, vice
president, and James Adams, sec-
retary.
council meeting, consisting of
high-leved persons, get together
and try to help them.”
He said the Soviet proposal
would merely consider ways of
helping get them out of the rut
“in which they have been floun-
dering for six months.”
Such a council meeting, attend-
ed by foreign ministers or chiefs
of state, he said, would not delay
the talks at Panmunjom and
would not have the effect of
shifting the negotiations from Ko-
rea to Paris. Both British Min-
ister of State Selwyn Lloyd and
U. S. delegate Benjamin Cohen
had charged adoption of the
Soviet plan would delay or dis-
rupt the talks and, moreover,
probably increase rather than de-
crease international tension.
Lloyd had said Vishinsky’s pro-
posal must be "deplored and op-
posed.”
But a split has developed be-
tween the U. S. and other pros-
pective sponsors of a rival plan
for a special council meeting on
world tensions with member na-
tions being reprinted by foreign
ministers. The U. S. wants the
western counter thrust to state
specifically that the meeting
would not be called until the
council chose the time, but oth-
er countries expressed belief
such a limitation would give the
Soviet Union ground to accuse
the West of stalling.
Lloyd told the U.N. political
committee adoption of the Soviet
plan might break up the truce
talks now under way in Korea.
A specific private meeting of
countries concerned in the div-
ergent non-Communist views of
the Soviet and American pro-
posals was arranged today to
seek a common ground. The
meeting broke up without agree-
ment and another session was
set for tomorrow.
for a party primary nomination
enter his consent in writing be-
for? delegates may be placed up-
on the party ballot.
Asked if he had such a written
approval from Sen. Kefauver,
Hays replied:
“I don’t have it at the moment.
But I have been in politics for 20
years and you’ll just have to as-
sume I know what I'm doing.”
It was Hays who last month
emerged from a White House con-
ference with President Truman
saying the President would issue
a statement by Feb. 6 telling
whether or not he was a candi-
date for reelection.
The White, House said Mr. Tru-
man had not made any commit-
ments about the date for an-
nouncing his intentions. .
Hays told newsmen “there will
be no repudiation of my “action.”
The announcement was the
first open move to get the ball
rolling for the Tennessee senator,
who achieved nation-wide prom-
inence over the television net-
works during hearings of th? Sen-
ate crime investigating commit-
tee. Kefauver was chairman Kt
the committee.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (P) —
The 82nd Congress starts its
election-year session tomorrow,
with polities likely to weigh
heavily in all major actions.
The next six months are ex-
pected to bring forth decisions,
one way or the other, on such
major matters as universal mili-
tary training, foreign military
and economic aid, economic con-
trols at home, and defense spend-
ing.
Leaders are hopeful the session
can wind up in time for the July
political conventions so members
can. go home afterward for the
fall campaigns.
All House seats will be at
stake in the November voting.
So will 32 Senate seats, as well
as the Presidency and the vice-
Presidency.
Because of the approaching
elections, observers generally ex-
pect the session to be marked
more by talk than by action.
President Truman will blue-
print his legislative program in
his state-of-the-union message
Wednesday. That will be follow-
ed by two more messages, one
on economics and the other trans-
mitting a federal budget ex-
pected to exceed 80 billion dol-
lars for the year starting July 1.
PARIS, Jan. 7 (IP) — Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vis-
hinsky said today the Korean
truce talks at Panmunjom have
reached a deadlock. He urged a
high level security council meet-
ing to help break it.
Vishinsky told the United Na-
tions political committee “we
want these negotiations to be
concluded successfully and quick-
ly” and said “let's have a security
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