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Five Deaths In One Family Lead
Texas Weekend Violent Deaths
Lie Charges Are
Directed At Reds
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HANOI, Indo China, May 19
(ZP) — The French announced to-
day that their troops drove Com-
munist-led Viet Minh units out of
the fortified village of Hho Loa,
31 miles southeast of Hanoi, kill-
ing 40 and capturing 24 enemy
against the bill would give foes
of the measure enough votes to
uphold the veto. In the Senate
33 votes for sustaining the veto
would kill the bill. These figures
would be reduced if all members
of the House did not vote.
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inside the conference tent. But gressional leaders with the Pres-
he told newsmen Nam II began ident today.
“to lie and deny they ever agreed
to the screening ”
“That is an out-and-out lie,” the
gray-haired Admiral said.
Joy reviewed for the Reds the
secret staff officer talks on pris-
oner exchange and told them:
"You knew that screening was
to take place, you acquiesed in
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its accomplishment, and only
when its results was not to your
liking and expectation did you
decide to object to it.”
MUNSAN, Korea, May 19 (4’)—
The top United Nations truce
negotiator today labelled as an
“out and out” lie a Communist
denial that the Reds had agreed
to Allied screening of prisoners
of war.
Inside the Panmunjom confer-
ence tent, Vice Adm. C. Turner
Joy, senior U. N. delegate, told
the Reds:
“Had the results been to your
liking you would have enthusias-
tically welcomed the product of
the screening.”
North Korean Gen. Nam II re-
plied: .
“It is inconceivable and nobody
would believe that our sirde, who
is firmly opposed to the reten-
tion of our captured personnel
by your side under wlhatever
name, could have agreed direc-
tly or indirectly to your so-call-
ed screening.”
A recent Allied quizzing of
Red prisoners of war showed
that nearly 100,000 North Ko-
reans and Chinese prisoners said
they prefer death to returning
to Communism.
The issue of exchanging pris-
oners blocks an armistice.
LONDON, May 19 (P) — Bri-
tain told Red China today re-
maining British businessmen in
China have decided to close down
or dispose of their 30 million
pound (840 million dollar) in-
vestment and quit the country.
In a note delivered in Peiping,
Britain also asked the Chinese
Communist government to grant
exit visas for an estimated 120
Britains, who would leave the
country as soon as their busi-
nesses are wound up.
The note said the decision to
give up any further attempt to
continue in business in China
was made by the business firms
concerned.
A Foreign Office spokesman
said Britain’s one-sided recogni-
tion of the Peiping regime would
continue. Britain, largely at the
prodding of British business in-
terests in China, recognized the
Communist government in Janu-
ary, 11950. British business has
LOS ANGELES, May 19 (ZP) —
Execution of Fred Stroble on
July 26 was ordered today by
superior Judge Charles W. Fricke.
Stroble, 68, convicted of the
sex murder of Linda Joyce
Glucoft, 6, in 1949, had lost ap-
peals to the U. S. Supreme Court.
Judge Fricke said that all
avenues of appeal were closed
after the high court on May 12
denied Stroble a rehearing. The
Supreme Court upheld the con-
viction last April 7.
Judge Fricke directed the war-
den at San Quentin prison to
execute Stroble in the gas cham-
ber between the hours of 10:00
a.m. and 4 p.m. July 26..
Eisenhower in
The Netherlands
Brother Of Mrs.
Johnny Banks is
Taken By Death
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Banks
left early Monday morning in
response to a message announcing
the sudden death of her brother,
Hubert Shuler, of Clarksville.
Mr. Shuler died at 7:00 o’clock
from the effects of a heart at-
tack.
Funeral arrangements were not
complete at press time.
WASHINGTON, May 19 (P) —
The Office of Price Stabilization
said today price controls are be-
ing suspended on raw cotton and
practically all textiles including
those made of wool, cotton and
synthetic fibers.
OPS officials said price stabili-
zer Ellis Arnall signed the order
this morning. Details are to be
announced late today.
An official said the order sets
43.39 cents a pound as the point
at which raw cotton would be
brought back under control.
This compares with the exist-
ing ceiling of 45.39 cents for any
futures month. It applies to
white and extra white middling
grade 15/16 of an inch staple
length, gross weight.
An official said the order on
textiles exempts just about every
type of fabric at the ‘manufac-
turing level.
All of the products have been
selling far below ceiling and of-
ficials predicted the suspension
would mean no change in the re-
tail prices for the fabrics.
The 43.39 cents “recontrol”
point for cotton means this: If
cotton futures should rise to
43.39 cents, OPS would put back
146 votes
KONAWA, Okla., May 19 (A1)—
Two railroad enginemen were
killed near here yesterday in a
car-truck collision on Highway
99.
V. L. Groswold, 35, of Sher-
man, Tex., and Sam Daniel, 61,
Sapulpa, Okla., were riding in
the automobile.
Groswold was a fireman of the
Frisco railroad. Daniel was a
Frisco engineer.
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WASHINGTON, May 19 (A) —
Friends and foes of the hotly-
debated measure that would give
the states clear title to submerg-
ed off-shore lands were busy
lining up votes today in the face
of an expected veto by President
Truman.
The bill has passed both House
and Senate, but the President has
made it clear he will veto the bill.
The bill, often referred to er-
roneously as the tidelands bill,
involves millions of dollars worth
of oil which has been found in
the submerged lands off the
TUNISIAN CASUALTIES
TUNIS, Tunisia, May 19 (A) —
Five persons, including four
Frenchmen, were hurt in shoot-
ings and bombings in Tunisia last
night and early today.
PARIS, May 19 (A) — Gen.
Eisenhower went to the Nether-
lands today to bid farewell to
Dutch forces under his NATO
command.
“What’s news?” He grinningly
asked reporters at the air field
just before departure. The re-
porters returned the question.
He will return here tomorrow.
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Two Houston Girls
Unhurt After Run
Over By Train
HOUSTON, May 19 (A) —
While their family looked on
helplessly, wringing their hands
and praying, 14 cars and an
engine of a Southern Pacific
freight train passed over the
prone bodies of two Houston teen
age girls who had stumbled and
fallen on a trestle over Dickinson
Bayou.
Mrs. J. M. Butler, Houston,
today told of their horrible ex-
perience that took place while
the parents, two daughters, a
niece and a boy friend were on
a crabbing-fishing outing yester-
day.
The two girls, still badly shaken
up today, are Fay Franks, 16,
daughter of Mrs. Butler by a
previous marriage, and Frankie
Evans, 15, a niece of Mrs. Butler.
They escaped with minor
bruises and scratches suffered
when they ifell on the trestle
while running ahead of the train.
“God was with us,” said Mrs.
Butler.
“All I could do was wring my
hands and pray, while Mr. Butler
screamed to the girls to jump.”
But the girls were too frighten-
ed to jump, they said later.
The distance from the trestle
to the bayou is only about 15
feet, Mrs. Butler estimated.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS:
Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight
and Tuesday, warmer Tuesday.
WEST TEXAS: Partly cloudy
to cloudy and a little warmer to-
night and Tuesday.
EAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS: Scattered showers along
the coast, partly cloudy tonight
and Tuesday, warmer Tuesday,
fresh northerly winds on the
coast diminishing and becoming
easterly Tuesday.
LOUISIANA: Cooler in the
east and south portions. Partly
cloudy tonight and tomorrow.
ature. Brownsville, with 67, was
apparently the warmest early
morning spat.
The U. S. Weather Bureau pre-
dicted clearing skies behind the
front today, tonight and to-
morrow.
Benefits to farms and ranches
far offset the damage done by
rains over the wet weekend.
Water seepage into cables and
falling tree limbs resulted in a-
bout 1,400 telephones going out
of order in Dallas.
Wheat and cotton crops in the
Vernon area were heavily dam-
aged by high winds, rain and hail
Saturday night and Sunday
morning. More than five inches
of rain fell in the Vernon vicini-
ty. Wheat Damage was reported
“light to total."
East of Ranger, Highway 80
was flooded by more than eight
feet of water at one place. Ranger
reported 3:43 inches of rain by
9 p.m. Saturday. More than 1,000
automobiles stacked up behind
the flooded portion of the high-
way.
Two inches of rain and hail
half as big as baseballs shatter-
ed neon signs and windows in
Coleman and some trees were
virtually stripped. Near Hamlin,
hail beat a large swath of cotton
acreage into the ground. About
1.20 inches of rain fell in the
area.
as “encouragement” for the cot-
ton farmer. .
“It takes cotton out of the hands
of the government and puts it
back in the hands of the farmer,
he said.
He predicted there would be
no runaway inflation of cotton
under the relaxation.
"We’ve still got to compete
with synthetics,” he said.. “I ex-
pect prices to run about like they
did last year.”
Last year’s prices ranged from
a low of about 32 cents a pound
to 42.7 cents, the all-time high.
coasts of Louisiana, Texas and
California.
Truman and opponents of the
bill claim the income properly
belongs to the federal govern-
ment. The bill’s supporters and
officials of the three states say
title belongs to the states.
Until 1947 the states held un-
disputed control of the lands, but
in that year the Supreme Court
ruled the government has “para-
mount rights.” A year earlier,
Truman had vetoed tidelands
legislation similar to that now be-
fore him.
He left no doubt about his
plan® now when, he told the
Americans for Democratic action
Saturday night the Legislation in-
volves “robbery in broad day-
light.” He said, too:
“If we back down on our
determination to hold those
rights for the people, we act to
rob them of this great national
asset. This is just what the oil
lobby wants. They want to turn,
that asset vast treasure over to
a handful of states, where the
powerful private oil interests
hope to exploit it to suit them-
selves. -
“Talk about corruption. Talk
about stealing from the people.
This would be robbery on a colos-
sal scale.”
He said he could see how Con-
gressmen from Louisiana, Texas
and California would favor the
measure “but I certainly can’t
understand how the members of
Congress from the other 45 states
can vote to give away the interest
the people of their states have
in this precious asset.”
Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex)
said the House undoubtedly
would override a Presidential
veto.
Majority leader McFarland
(D-Ariz) of the Senate express-
ea doubt that the body would
override the veto “It will be
close,.” he said.
They gave their views to re-
porters after the regular morning
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AIR FORCE FINDS CACHE LEFT BY PF.RRY—The Air Force
North Pole Expedition on May 4 found three broken sled run-
ners, tied to form a tripod to mark their cache of wood-crated
metal boxes left on Ellesmere Island 413 miles from the North
Pole, by Admiral Peary in 1909. The Air Force crew discovered
it' the day after landing at the North Pole in a C-47. Ellesmere
is the last known point of land beyond the Arctic Circle.
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weekend Texas rains, measur-
ed in millions by farmers and
stockmen, turned into scattered
showers along the Gulf Coast
Monday. Cooler weather came in
the wake of the rain.
The wet, chilly weather front
completed its leisurely jaunt
from the Panhandle to the gulf
Sunday. Heavy rainfalls in North
Central Texas put streams up but
no serious overflows were ex-
pected.
The front brought downpours
to North Texas, East Texas and
scattered Central Texas points.
Light showers pelted portions of
West Texas and along the coast.
Thunderstorms which lashed
parts of the state Saturday night
started at least three large fires
when lightning accompanied the
driving rains and hail. Some crop
and property damage was report-
ed.
West of San Angelo, that sec-
tion receives its heaviest rain-
fall so far this year. Dust-ridden,
drough-stricken Big Spring re-
ported .31 of an inch. Midland
had one inch.
The damaging lightning bolts
struck at Corsicana, Alvarado
and San Angelo. The lightning
struck a bowling center in San
Angelo and fire rapidly spread
early Sunday to two other busi-
ness buildings. Driving rain
hampered firemen and the dam-
ages were estimated at $300,000.
The lightning destroyed a
$100,000 school building at Al-
varado Saturday night, striking
during a vicious rain, wind and
hail storm. Alvarado is 13 miles
east of Cleburne in Johnson
County.
The other lightning-made fire
destroyed a barn and 2,000 bales
of hay at the State Orphans
Homes in Corsicane. Some 86
head of cattle were herded to
safety, but the damage was set
at $10,000.
Numbers of sports events, base-
ball games mostly, were postpon-
ed by the weekend rains.
Just before dawn Monday, Luf-
kin, Brownsville, Houston, Gal-
veston and Big Spring had weath-
er described as light drizzles and
light rain. Amarillo had fog with
four-mile visibility.
Dalhart’s 37 degrees was the
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Supreme Court
AUSTIN, May 19 (AP) — The
state Supreme Court today agreed
to consider a dispute between
rival Eisenhower and Taft Re-
publican factions.
It set a hearing for 2 p.m. to-
morrow on a suit by the Eisen-
hower group to nullify rump
Taft conventions held in Dallas,
Travis, Tarrant, Harris, Nueces
and Galveston Counties.
The action was considered a
first-round victory for the Eisen-
hower people. The court could
have rejected the suit without
further hearing.
The court granted a motion for
permission to file a mandamus
suit to halt secretary of state
Jack Ross from forwarding the
disputed Taft convention delegate
lists to the state GOP conven-
tion at Mineral Wells May 27.
These were delegate lists sub-
mitted following the county con-
ventions May 6.
The Supreme Court suit was
filed by Alvin Lane of Dallas and
Louis Scott Wilkerson of Austin,
Eisenhower leaders.
They charged that “a substan-
tial majority” of the members
of the Republican state executive
committee have said openly they
will not recognize the pro-Eisen-
hower delegates at the state con-
vention.
The suit called the county con-
ventions in question “illegal” be-
cause they were not convened ac-
cording to terms of the new elec-
tion code and because they were
not justified “by any denial of
any legal or political rights” at
the regularly-called county
meetings.
The suit was also brought in
behalf of Elton Hyder, Sr., of
Fort Worth: Malcolm MeCorquo-
dale of Houston; Jim Sticker of
Corpus Christi; Tom Loughney
of Galveston.
SEOUL, Korea, May 19 (P) —
Filipino raiders in grenade-
bayonet charges twice drove
Chinese Reds defenders off an
embattled hill on the Korea
central front today.
It was the same hill west of
Chorwon where men of the 20th
Battalion Combat team said they
killed or wounded every one of
40 Chinese at its top yesterday.
The tough Filipino raiders hit
the Reds again this morning. The
Chinese fled. The Filipinos with-
drew shortly under Red Mortar
fire.
Later in the day a second
Filipino patrol caught the Chinese
napping. The patrol hurled
grenades and charged with fix-
ed bayonets. The Chinese fled.
Ten Reds were killed in two
assaults. The Filipinos were wear-
ing regular issue U. S. armored
vests. None was killed, the U.
S. 8th Army said. )
U. N. raiders Sunday fought
into heavily fortified Communist
bunkers on the western front.
been a dominant position in China
for more than two centuries.
Full diplomatic relations never
have been established. Britain
has a charge d’affaires, L. H.
Lamb, in Peiping. He has only
limited access to Peiping For-
eign Office officials, however.
Communist China has not made
any move to open a diplomatic
mission in London.
“Our contracts with China,
such as they are, will be main-
tained,” a Foreign Office .spokes-
man said.
Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of State
for foreign affairs, is expected to
make a statement in the House
of Commons tomorrow on the
withdrawal of British business
men.
Newspaper reports said Bri-
tish owners would try to sell their
property to Chin.se government
agencies, but there was little op-
timism.
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A car-truck crash in which a
family of five was wiped out near
Big Springs and the shooting of
two brothers by a policeman at
Taylor highlighted the violent
death toll in Texas over the week
end.
At least 18 persons died. Traf-
fic killed half of them and the
others, died in fights, shootings,
drownings and an airplane crash.
As far as could be learn-
ed, Texas’ turbulent thunder-
storm weather over the weekend
had nothing to do with any of
the violent deaths. ,
A hearing was set today in a
Justice of the Peace Court at
Taylor for Policeman Fred Grieg-
er, about 32. Grieger said he was
beaten Saturday night when he
attempted to arrest two Latin-
American brothers. Funeral ser-
vices for the brothers, who died
of gunshot wounds, were set to-
morrow morning in Taylor. They
were Staff Sergeant Edward
Vega, 25, of the Air Force, and
Arthur Vega, 22, a marine corps
reservist.
Ten miles west of Big Spring,
on U. S. Highway 80, a car-truck
crash killed Fidel Caballos, 23,
Stanton; his wife, Maria, 23; a
daughter, about 2, and two
younger sons, Fidel Jr. and Pablo.
Officers said the car had passed
an oil transport truck and was
pulling back into righthand traf-
fic when it went into a skid and
slipped broadside into the ap-
proaching truck driven by Char-
les Zinn of living.
Another Highway 80 crash, at
Barstow, Sunday killed Pedro
Larez Lopez, 26, Pecos instantly.
A Mexican alien, Augustin Ag-
rnadez Torres, died three hours
later. Two other occupants of the
car, which collided with a bu-
tane truck, were injured.
The careening truck struck a
filling station and then bounced
into a house. Both the truck and
house were destroyed by flames
following the crash. Two occu-
pants of the house were burned
about the face, and hands.
Robert Wade Sutton, 38, Odes-
sa oil driller, was killed Sunday
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in a head-on two-car crash on
Highway 87 five miles north of
San Angelo. The driver of the
other car was injured seriously.
Other deaths by violence over
the weekend included:
Louis Bishop died of a broken
neck Saturday in San Antonio
and another man was under ar-
rest after a fight.
George Gandara, 28, was killed
in a head-on automobile crash in
San Antonio Saturday.
A mother and her baby, were
found .dead Saturday in a water
tank on a ranch in northeast
Stephens County, Mrs. Mable
Davis, 35, and her daughter, Mar-
sha, 4, were found by Burges
Davis, Mrs. Davis’s son.
An inquest verdict was expect-
ed Monday.
L. C. Williams, 26-year-old
Dallas man, was killed Saturday
in an auto-truck crash at Dal-
las.
Thomas William (Bill) How-
ard, 44, was killed and Harold B.
(Red) Garner, 35, the pilot, was
seriously injured Saturday when
their plane crashed into a rock
wall at Arlington State College
in Arlington.
A three-months-old boy was
killed in an auto collision west of
Abilene Saturday. His parents,
Mr. and Mis. Olin Coleman of
Odessa, were injured.
Melvin Wilson, 37, drowned in
a lake near Houston Saturday.
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the present ceiling of 45.39 cents.
On the New York exchange,
cotton for July delivery was sell-
ing at the opening this morning
at 33.19 cents..
The ceiling on spot cotton
which is being suspended is
45.76 cents a pound, based on
prices in a group of counties in
the Carolinas used as a base.
This includes a spot average price
of 45.14 cents plus an average
freight differential.
Removal of controls was hail-
ed by Texas Agriculture Com-
missioner John C. White today
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