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Families
IULUME XXXIV
NUMBER 136
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Dean Overjoyed
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American Soil
Red Writer Claims
23 Americans On
Convict Escapes
POW Refusal List
Huntsville Prison
luctant POWs will be held 90 I rounds the maintaining of sound
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Dies In Los Angeles
HOUSING UNIT APPROVED
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Defense Has Priority
Over Taxes, I ke Asserts
Farmers Should Give Up Dependence
On Government, Benson Tells Bankers
Dedication Of New
Building Oct. 1st
Soviet Premier
Is Purge Victim
District Court In
Trial Of Civil Suit
Of Probate Matter
in Boston, Eisenhower took no
direct note of criticism of his ad-
WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (P) —
Secretary of Agriculture Benson
told bankers today the nation’s
farm policy should veer away
from what he called centraliza-
His administration’s money pol-
icies have been praised consist-
ently by speakers at the conven-
tion.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22 (P)—
Ill since last February, Ignacio
E. Lozano Sr., 66, founder and
publisher of the Spanish language
La Presna in San Antonio, Tex.,
and La Opinion in Los Angeles,
died yesterday at the home of
his son in West Los Angeles.
Born in Marin, Nuevo Leon,
Mex., Lozano came to the United
States when he was 20. He estab-
lished his first newspaper in 1913
and started La Opinion here in
1926. He maintained his residence
in San Antonio but visited Los
Angeles frequently.
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Read Every Day By
Over 2,550
“The American farmer will not
1 be fooled by false propaganda,”
Aiken said.
Eisenhower got a tremendous
ovation when he entered Boston
Garden two hours in advance of
his speech. There was another
big ovation when he rose to talk
and when he concluded. He was
interrupted by applause six times.
He said that in this age of
peril “the security of our whole
nation, • the preservation of our
AlIRMAN SAVED FROM SEA AND SHARKS)—Blanket-wrapped Larry Grayville of Landsdowne,
Pa., crew member of the crashed B29 weather plane, lies in lifeboat of cruise ship Nassau which res-
cued 'him after he had spent 22 hours in the choppy Atlantic. Grayville, who arrived in New York,
told hew he and other crew members fought off sharks with their' fists. This picture was made by
Aldo Scala, the Nassau’s photographer. The Nassau picked up six thembers of the weather plane crew
and nine men from the amphibian rescue plane which was damaged and abandoned while trving to
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ence on government, and that
they could help strengthen the
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economic freedom was needed.
He said inadequacy of the pres-
ent program included:
1. Failure to build farm mar-
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Schedule of Activities for
National Kids Day Saturday
Sponsored by Kiwanis Club
9:30 A. M.—Free picture show at Martin Theatre consist-
ing of all cartoons and comedies. Courtesy of Gerhard Broth-
ers. Runs 1% hours.
12:00 noon—Box lunch at Dellwood Park. Mothers to pre-
pare lunch for their own children.
11:30 PM.—Talent Show to be recorded and rebroadcast'
over KIMP. Each school in county will be eligible for two con-
testants.
3:00 P.M.—Free swim (weather permitting) in Dellwood
pool. Game and contest hour, spelling bee, etc.
4:00 P.M.—Little League baseball game at Little League
Park in Dellwood.
6:00 P.M.—Activities of the day come to a close.
Concessions of cold drinks peanuts, etc., by Mt. Pleasant
Key Olub. under supervision of Bob Surovik.
Five lifesaving merit badge Scouts under supervision of
Jack Kelley, Scout executive, for swim period.
Games, contests, talent show, etc., directed bv teachers
from the various schools in the county under supervision of
County Superintendent James V. Adams.
Little League ball game under supervision of Bugs Cross
and Dick Crane.
Kiwanians in supervision of activities at the park will
include Paul Lennier, Hugh Cross. Marvin Amerson. James
Adams. Harry Taylor. Rev. George Acker, Dr. Kenneth Taylor,
Bryan Reaves and Dr. R. L. Matkin.
Fees for children 12 veal's of age and under—Absolutely
nothing.
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ministration by former President
Truman and Adlai E. Stevenson,
the Democratic presidential nom-
inee in 1952, but he listed what
he called the accomplishments of
his administration thus far.
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Burners are demanding a good
diet, and the population is in-
creasing, all operating, he said, to
form a sound basis for farming.
"Rural banks are faced with a
wonderful opportunity to strength
on the rural economy,” he said.
Appealing for help in preserv-
ing “our free enterprise system,”
the secretary said that in recent
years “our thinking people have
become more and more concern-
ed about the rapid trend toward
government ownership.”
“Too many Americans are call-
ing on Washington to do for them
what ithey should be willing to do
for themselves,” he said.
Brenton, a Des Moines, lovza,
banker, said “bankers must help
remove the mystery that sar-
A civil suit contesting the will
of the late Algernon Sexton was
brought to trial in District Court
Tuesday morning as the first
case on the civil docket for the
fall term convened Monday by
Judge Sam Williams. The suit
was expected to go to the jury
sometime Monday evening.
The case was filed by Flora
and E. V. Hall of Canton, Texas
who are challenging the will
against Robert and Roy Alex-
ander of Mt. Pleasant.
A jury was selected Tuesday
morning and testimony got un-
derway immediately.
The next case on the civil
docket will probably go to trial
Thursday morning, Judge Wil-
liams said.
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days in the demilitarized zone
while interviewers try to per-
suade them to change their minds
about going home.
Answering a U. N. Command
request for a breakdown by na-
tionality of captives they claim
refused repatriation, the Reds re-
ported to a joint secretariat ses-
sion of the Military Armistice
Commission that “more than 300
are Koreans. Over 20 are non-
Koreans, of which all are Ameri-
cans except one British.”
Although in round numbers,
this report by Ju Yon, North Ko-
rean representative, was the most
detailed breakdown of unrepatri-
ated allied POWs the Reds so
far have provided.
Americans returned in the ex-
change have told of fellow POWs
who elected to stay behind.
Burchett said the Americans
at Kaesong had a dog mascot
which they had named “Non Re-
pat.”
The 360-plus captives the Com-
munists say refused repatriation
would just begin to account for
more than 900 Americans and 2,-
500 other Allied soldiers whose
whereabouts the U. N. Command
was demanded of the Reds.
The Allies Monday rejected as
“totally unsatisfactory and unac-
ceptable” a Communist prelimi-
nary report that most of these 3,-
400 men believed missing were
“never captured.”
give all Odd Fellows and Re- | by Democrats that the adminis-
bekahs an opportunity to inspect । tration has broken its 1952 cam-
the newly remodeled and re- ' paign pledges to the farmers.
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Sept.
22 (P) — The United States today
won the first round of its fight to
keep the U. N. General Assembly
from reopening debate on the in-
clusion of neutral countries in the
Korean peace conference.
Chief U. S. delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr., however, said in
a surprise statement that the re
presentatives of the U. N. and
the Communists at the conference
might decide themselves they
want to invite any non-belliger
ents.
Lodge also offered “in view of
the urgency of the situation” to
send a United States representa-
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saw him before he left.
In Springfield, the President
told a crowd of about 6,000 at the
Eastern States Exposition Coli-
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Benson said a new farm pro-
tion of power and undue depend- gram based on the principles of
Francisco to discuss arrangements Poland voted for including of the
with a representative of the Com item. India, sitting in the chair
did not vote. Yugoslavia abstain-
ed.
In advancing his new position
on the participation of neutrals,
' Lodge said:
“The question of whether any
neutrals should be invited as the
North Korean note declares, is a
matter for agreemenb between
both sides.
He said:
“We are most anxious to facili-
tate a conference. We are pre-
pared at once to dispatch a repre-
sentative to meet a representative
of Communist China and North
Korea at any of the places we
designated.”
Lodge said the United States
already had transmitted to the
Communists, through the Swed-
ish government, its proposal to
permit the conference itself de-
termine whether its membership
should be broadened to include
non-belligerent countries.
British Minister of State Sel-
wyn Lloyd and French delegate
Henri Hoppenot quickly lined up
behind Lodge’s proposal.
The U. S. move came as a sur-
prise.
The offer to send a representa-
tive to discuss arrangemenits with
the Communists was the first
time the United States had indi-
cated willingness to deal directly
with Communist China on politi-
cal and diplomatic matters.
Vishinsky’s move to have the
Assembly reopen debate on the
parley had seemed to face certin
defeat even before Lodge made
his new proposal.
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bankers must become "sound
money” missionaries throughout
the country, if financial disturb-
ances calling for government in-
tervention are to be avoided.
President Eisenhower speaks
informally to the bankers today.
Grandson Mr. And
Mrs. Jimmy Mills
Dies On Monday
Leo Grumbles, four-year-old
son of Sgt/1e and Mrs. Walter
E. Grumbles, passed away about
HUNTSVILLE, Sept. 22 (A) —
Clifford Harry Alexander, 22,
convict from Harris County,
scaled the wall of the Texas’ main
prison and disappeared late last
night.
Prison General Manager O. B.
Ellis said Alexander might be
hiding close by, waiting for the
search to die down.
Jesse Elmer Moore, also a Har-
ris County convict, started over
the wall with Alexander but
dropped inside when a guard
fired.
The men were housed in the
prison psychopathic ward, which
adjoins the east wall. They cut
a bar on their cell, crawled out
and reached a scaffolding which
extends along the wall several
feet from the top.
Officers said they did not know
what tool the men used to saw
out of their cell.
Alexander was serving 10 years
for burglary and theft. Moore is
serving 20 years for burglary by
assault.
money,”
The association president said
that "much of the criticism of
bankers in government is made
by those who fail to realize that
many of our problems in govern-
ment are financial and it is logi-
cal to call on those who have
made a success in the field of fi-
nance.”
He suggested more bankers
should be provided with educa-
tion on national monetary and
fiscal problems and that small
bankers especially should "speak
out” in the interest of money
policies which prevent inflation.
The generally optimistic tone
of the convention was shadowed
by forecasting of some letdown
from the present record level of
economic activity.
ICasimir A. Sienkiewicz, presi-
dent of the Central-Penn Nation-
al Bank of Philadelphia, told the
National Bank Division late yes-
terday that “we’re in for a minor
business drop.”
But, he said, this would not
have the proportions of a reces-
sion and would be only one of the
“occasional bumps” he said were
to be expected in a free and ac-
tive economy. Sienkiewicz guess-
ed that the drop would be be-
tween 5 and 10 per cent, measur-
ed by the Federal Reserve
Board's index of industrial pro-
duction.
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GERMANY PAYING DEBTS
BONN, Germany (P) — West
Germany today announced it is
paying immediately 189,300,000
marks ($45,053,400) as its first
instalment on Germany’s foreign
dabts. It includes $17,518,800 to
the United States.
LONDON, Sept. 22 (A) — The
premier of the Georgian Soviet
Republic, homeland of Joseph
Stalin and ousted Red police bpss
Lavrenty P. Beria, was added to-
day to the growing list of Soviet
purge victims. The first secretary
of the republic's Communist par-
ty also was fired.
The government radio in the
republic’s capital, Tiflis (Tbilisi),
announced that Premier B. M.
Bakhradze had been replaced by
“Comrade D. D. Galatishvili" and
that “Comrade Merkulava" was
dismissed as party secretary.
It was the second shakeup in
the strategic Georgian republic
in three months and part of a
continuing Kremlin purge of the
subordinate republic governments
begun after Beria’s arrest was an-
nounced last June.
The radio said Bakhradze was
ousted by a decree of the Presid-
ium of the Supreme Soviet (leg-
islature) of the republic,
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(P)— A civil defense exercise in-
volving the Air Force and Illinois
state police gave rise to false re-
ports today that a Russian flier
had landed in Central Illinois in
a MIG.
The report, carried over a na-
tional television network and
broadcast over a Champaign radio
station, brought a flood of inquir-
ies from newspapers in several
parts of the nation.
The flier actually was a mem-
ber of the Air Force intelligence
service squadron at O’Hare Field
near Chicago who was flown to
Chanute Field at Rantoul, Ill.,
last night.
It was an exercise to test coor-
dination between the Air Force
and state police.
Chanute personnel transported
kim by car to a quarter of a mile
from the state police headquarters
at Urbana, Ill., where, as pre-
arranged, he “surrendered.”
The flier, identified by police as
A/lc Witold Glinski, of Chicago,
was garbed in an old type fur
felt officers cap, Air Force jump
"boots and winter type overalls.
He wore an insigna bearing a
hammer and sickle and carried a
typewritten card reading: "I am
a participant in an air defense
exercise.”
Someone pressed the panic but-
ton and the flier ended up in the
Champaign County jail. Reporters
and photographers got wind of
the unusual prisoner, but offi-
cial refused first to talk freely
because of “security reasons.”
'Deputy Sheriff Robert Martin
of Champaign County told news-
men a man who claimed to be a
Russian flier was in custody in
the jail.
State police headquarters in
Springfield said the man was
carrying identification as a Rus-
sian flier.
Capt. Robert J. Trimble, pro-
vost marshal at nearby Chanute
Field, hurried to the jail to talk
to the man.
Then Trimble announced that
the whole incident was an ar-
rangement between the state
police and the Air Force intel-
ligence unit at O’Hare Field. He
said Chanute’s only part in the
incident was to provide the flier
with transportation from the
field to near the state police
station..
A spokesman for the Illinois
Civil Defense headquarters in
Chicago quoted Lt. Frank J.
Cunnion of O’Hare Field as say-
ing the exercise was one in which
ground force air observer corps
would report the landing of a
aptrange plane to state police and
state police in turn would take
over until relieved by Air Force
intelligence.
The O’Hare flier added to the
confusion by playing his role to
the hilt—talking to his jail
custodians in a gutteral foreign
ongue.
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thought and every decision.”
Then he declared:
“We know the enemies of free-
dom to be equipped with the most
terrible weapons of destruction.
We know, then, that we can meet
I them with only one answer: there
is no sacrifice, no labor, no tax,
no service, too hard for us to bear
to support a logical and necess J
defense of our freedom.” ‛e
WEATHER
Gent rally fair and mild to-
night and Wednesday.
DEATH-ON THE DESERT—-Burning wreckage of a big truck trailer blocks the desert highway from
Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Nev. after a head-on crash with a sedan in which nine persons were riding.
All nine and the truck driver died in the flaming crash. The burned body of one of the victims lies
beside the highway at far lesit. A passing truck driver, Tommy Thompson, made this picture.
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Godless philosophy,” communism.
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WASHINGTON (P) — The
Housing and Home Finance
Agency today approved 50 addi-
tional houses for the Brazoria
County, Tex., defense area. This
means private builders will be
able to get more favorable
mortgage terms on these units,
the agency explained.
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ficient food can be prepared. man of the Senate Agriculture
The dedicatory program will 1 Committee, hit back at charges
PANMUNJOM, Sept. 22 (A) —
The Communists said today at
least 20 Americans and Britons
and more than 300 Koreans re-
fused repatriation in the big Ko-
rean prisoner exchange. They are
scheduled to be turned over
Thursday to Indian custodial
troops.
A Red correspondent, Wilfred
Burchett of the Paris L'Humanite
unofficially put the number at 23
Americans, one Briton and 335
South Koreans. Burchett said
they are being held in an un-
guarded camp at Kaesong.
By term's of the armistice, re-
lic said the record since Janu-
ary is "to short to be anything
like definitive.”
While Eisenhower took no di-
rect issue with the Democrats,
some of his GOP colleagues at the
rally did.
Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge chief of the U. S. mission
to the United Nations, referred to
Stevenson’s contention that the
administration is putting things
off, is operating a "government
by postponement.”
Turning to Eisenhower, Lodge
said:
“Well, Mr. President, you didn’t
postpone an armistice in Korea.
HONOLULU, Sept. 22 (P) —
Deeply moved at being back on
American soil. Maj. Gen. William
F. Dean comes home today from
three years of Communist captiv-
ity in Korea.
Dean said it was 71 months
since he last touched American
soil in Hawaii on his way to Ko-
rea. The Medal of Honor winner
Looked ruddy and tanned and said
he had added 18 pounds to the
162 he weighed when freed Sept.
4.
He is scheduled to leave Hic-
kam Air Force Base at 10 a.m. on
the 10-hour flight to Travis Air
Force Base, Calif., where he will
be met by his family.
A deluge of Hawaiian flowers
kisses and “welcome homes”
greeted the General on his ar-
rival from Tokyo last night.
“This is the thrill of my life,
returning to my homeland, to
American soil,” Dean said as he
stepped out of an Air Force trans-
port.
“Not only I, but every repatri-
ate I know has been talking all
the way from Panmunjom about
how wonderful it is to be a citi-
zen of the United States return-
ing home,” the General said.
Besides him stood a fellow re-
patriate of Chinese ancestry, M.
Sgt. Clarence Young of Honolulu.
“This is one of the heroes of
the war,” Dean said. “He didn’t
ever admit anything but Ameri-
can citizenship. The Chinese tried
to work on him because he is half
Chinese, but he insisted he was
an American citizen.”
Relatives who met Young burst
into tears at Dean’s words.
The two soldiers, Sgt. Young
and Gen. Dean saluted briskly
and snapped to attention as the
band played traditional ruffles
and flourishes.
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rural economy.
His talk was prepared for the
convention of the America® ! kets at fair prices.
Bankers Assn. In another pre j 2. Interfearence with needed
pared speech, W. Harold Brenton, adjustments in farming.
president of the association, said 3. Tendencies to price crops
such as wheat and cotton out of
world markets and dairy products
out of domestic markets.
4. Failure to provide farmers
with incentives for progress.
Benson called upon the nation’s
bankers to stay with their farm-
er customers “even when weather
or economic conditions make debt
repayment less favorable.”
“Prospects for American agri-
culture are good,” he declared
He said employment is high, con-
The Odd Fellows and Rebekah
Lodges of Mt. Pleasant will hold
open house at the new lodge hall
on the Texarkana Highway
Thursday evening, October 1, at
which time a barbecue dinner
the U. S. proposals as a "chesa
move.”
British Minister of State Sel
wyn Lloyd said Vishinsky’s re:
action reminded him of the Soviet
delegate's statement in Paris in
1951 when he said he stayed a
wake all night laughing at a
Western disarmament plan. Lloyd
reminded Vishinsky that he later
regretted that statement.
After hearing this exchange,
the Assembly’s 15-member steer-
ing committee voted "to reject a
Soviet proposal that the Korean
conference be put on the agenda
as a separate item. The vote was
two in favor, eleven against and
one abstaining. Only Russia and
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Hospital, San Francisco, Calif.,
from the effects of a rare malady
from which he had suffered
nearly two years.
The child is a grandson of
Mr. and Mrs James P. Mills of
Mt. Pleasant.
The body will be returned to
Texas and will be taken to San
Saba for funeral rites, the time
for which is pending.
with all the trimmings will be
served to families of members of
both lodges. A special dedica-
tion program also is planned.
According to O. C. Hendrick,
noble grand of the IOOF, all
members are asked to report to
Jeff Harvey, Jr., the number from if this is postonement, perhaps
their families who are expected we could stand some more of it.”
million persons turned out to
welcome Eisenhower on his ar-
BOSTON, Sept. 22 (P) — Pres-
ident Eisenhower solemnly de-
clared Last night that no sacrifice,
no tax, for example, is too bur-
densome for Americans determin-
ed to thwart “enemies of freedom
equipped with the most terrible
weapons of destruction.”
Kicking off a Republican drive
to hold control of Congress in the
1954 elections, the President got
a round of applause in making
that statement at $100-a-plate
party rally in Boston Garden.
His remarks touched off specu-
lation that the White House may
be thinking about a new tax levy
to help meet .the Russian hydro-
gen bomb threat. There has been
unconfirmed speculation the ad-
ministration might ask Congress
to approve a national sales tax.
House Speaker Joseph W. Mar
tin (R-Mass) told the same rally
of New England Republicans,
however, “it is universally agreed
that next January there will be a
reduation in personal income tax
es and the excess profits tax will
be eliminated.”
The President made no men-
tion of those scheduled tax cuts
It was the first time he had
anything .to say publicly about
"terrible weapons of destruction”
since Russia announced last
month that it had exploded a hy
drogen bomb. The U. S. Atomic
Energy Commission confirmed if
had detected a Russian atomic
explosion which included hydro-
gen reactions.
Eisenhower’s speech was car-
ried by nationwide television and
radio networks. He spoke to a
crowd of about 8,000 persons in
the Garden, and dinner commit-
tee officials said 4,700 purchased
$100 tickets.
The President flew back to
Washington last night, complet-
ing a one-day round of speech-
making in Massachusetts which
took him to Springfield as well as
Boston.
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