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For Big Christmas
Festival Dec. 3rd
Few Details New
High Speed Plane
Little Chance For
Merger Of CIO-AFL
Notice To Value
Day Advertisers
December 16 is
Date Of Opening
Bids On Armory
Nationwide Test
Of Polio Vaccine
Planned Next Year
City Councilman
Of Fort Worth is
Indicted For Arson
U. S Envoy Partly
Reverses Stand
On Peace Parley
Farm Issues May
Affect Elections,
McClellan Says
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BLOWING AT 111 CANDLES- Wall r W. Williams. died f
live surviving e terans ot the Civil War, blows at som ■ of the
candles on his 111th birthdav cake in his farm home al Franklin
Tex. Williams, who fought for the Confederacy, was 111 Nov.
14, but the party for 100 relatives and fri rds was delaved one
day. Williams had “wind” enough for the party, but not enough
to blow ouit 111 candles. Willie Mae Bowles ol Houston, a rela-
tive, is at left and his wife, Ella Mae, 79, stands behind him.
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The Tarrant County grand jury
indicted City Councilman T. L.
Carleton, 50, today on a charge
of arson.
The indictment accuses Carle-
ton of starting a fire Aug. 24
which destroyed his radio sup-
ply company shop and damaged
the Bender Hotel above the shop.
Damage was estimated at $150,-
000.
• Judge Wills McGregor ordered
$5,000 bond. The trial will start
Dec. 7.
Carleton received burns on the
feet and' legs at the fire. He was
elected to his first term in April.
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ARRIVE FOR TRIAL Mr Bonnie Brown Heady, handcuffed
and chained, walks into the United States Courthouse in Kansas
City, Mo., as she arrives for the start of the Greenlsase kidnap-
ing trial. Mrs. Heady, one of the confessed kidnap-slavers of the
six-year-old boy, is accompanied by Acting U. S. Marshal Wil-
Ham Tatman, left, and „n u".identified matron. (AP Wirephoto)
the outer surfaces as part of a
system for measuring pressures.
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Communist proposal to hold the
conference at Panmunjom with
Russia, India, Burma, Indonesia
and Pakistan attending as non-
voting observers.
The U. N. delegate tp prelim-
inary peace talks told the Reds
the United States would ask its
allies to consider asking neutrals
to the full-dress conference if:
1. The billigerent nations reach
agreement on the Korean question
and want to move on the broad
Asian questions.
2. The conference bogs down ican people again,” Truman de-
and it appears that progress on Tlared.
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blind brother, James Dray, last
August in West Bowie, went on
trial yesterday. Mrs. Watson told
Bowie County sheriff Bill Wat-
lington she struck and killed her
aged brother as he sat in the
back yard of his home at Wards
Creek, near DeKalb.
Sen. Dirksen (R-Ill) to call for
testimony from Hoover.
Crisply and scornfully Truman
said that when Brownell declared
that “Harry Dexter White was
known to be a Communist spy by
the very people who appointed
him” the attorney general “lied
to the American people.”
“In backing away from his
charge with the mealy-mouthed
statement that he had no inten-
tion of impugning the loyalty of
any high official of the prior ad-
ministration, he lied to the Amer-
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scheduled for 1 p.m. (CST).
Brownell’s office turned aside
with “no comment” all questions
about the papers which he will
take with him.
However, department sources
indicated that his staff has been
busy the last few days digging
questioners, are electing to stay
in the Republic of Korea, and the
Chin se who have refused to re-
turn to Red China presumably
will elect to go to Nationalist
China on Formosa, although they
might elect to go elsewhere.
Dulles also told the news con-
ference that:
1. Eric Johnston who rec. ntly
went as a special ambassador for
tha President to the Middle East,
has kept alive an American- fav-
ored project for development of
the Jordan River valley and the
American government now hopes
for increasingly favorable consid-
ration by Arab and Jewish coun-
tries.
2. He would not comment on
White case
ing company to eliminate dupli-
cating bookkeeping and expense.
Texas requires railroads operat-
ing within that state to be incor-
porated under Texas law.
Examiner Jerome Lyle said the
change will require the transfer
of about 225 employes in the St.
Louis executive offices to Tyler.
This will include members of the
accounting force, and the treas-
ury, industrial, legal and traffic
departments.
The president of the system
will continue his office in St.
Louis, but will also maintain an
office and staff at Tyler.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (P) —
Secretary of State Dulles declar-
ed today that all anti-Communist
prisoners of war held by the Neu-
tral Nations’ Repatriation Com-
mission in Korea should be given
their freedom and civilian status
on Jan. 22.
Indian Prime Minister Nehru
had recently suggested that the
question of release of the POWs
should be considered anew by
both sides in the Korean contro-
v rsy if the proposed political
conference did not take place.
Dulles made clear in a news
conference statement that the
United States rejects this Nehru
suggestion and feels that pro-
the effect of the case on U.S. for-
eign r lations.
3. The forthcoming Bermuda
conference in December of Bri-
tish Prime Minister Churchill.
President Eisenhower and French
Pr mier Laniel presumably will
discuss the future position of the
West rn powers on Germany and
Austria, matters which the Soviet
Union has now refused to nego-
tiate,
4. The United Stat, s has no ne-
gotiations pending with Pakistan
on. either military assistance or
bases although U. S. officials have
held general conversations with
Pakistan leaders. This was Dulles’
reply to a qusstion about a public
protest by India’s Nehru against
any U. S. help to Pakistan. Dulles
evidently used the word negotia-
tion in a technical sence since it
is known that the United Stat s
has been considering giving mili-
tary aid to Pakistan.
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Partly cloudy to cloudy and
mild through Wednesday with
widely scattered showers near the
coast.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (AP) —
Atty. Gen. Brownell was report-
ed today to have collected a batch
of secret documents for possible
use in his reply before a Senate
committee to former President
Truman’s crackling charge he
“lied to the American people” in
the Harry Dexter White case.
Brownell v. us to testify before
the Senate Internal Security sub-
committee in a closed session and,
the defendant’s
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half an hour later, in a ]
hearing.
The committee meeting
ICC Reconimends
Cotton Belt Move
Office To Tyler
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (AP) —
An Interstate Commerce Com-
mission examiner recommended
today that the St. Louis South-
western Railway Co. (Cotton
Belt) be authorized to merge its
Missour and Texas corporations
and to shift its headquarters from
St. Louis to Tyler, Texas.
The Cotton Belt is now operated
as two units. The larger com-
pany is based at St. Louis. Its
subsidiary, St. Louis Southwest-
ern of Texas, has headquarters
at Tyler.
The company proposes to merg-
CHILD KILLED BY TRUCK
DALLAS, Nov. 17 (P) — Angel
Ybarra, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Gaspar Ybarra, was hit and kill-
ed by a truck yesterday. Police
said he ran from behind two
parked cars.
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PANMUNJOM, Nov. 17 (A) —
The U. S. envoy, Arthur Dean,
told the Communists today the
United States would be willing
to invite neutral nations to the
Korean peace conference under
certain conditions—a sharp re-
versal of his earlier stand.
At the same time, Dean reject-
ed as “totally unacceptable” a
i the familiar DC3 passenger plane.
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at which Dulles was holding the
press conference, and he had no
NEW YORK, Nov. 17 (A) — A
hope-laden polio vaccine will be
given to probably one million
school children—in second grades
only—beginning Feb. 8 in an ef-
fort to learn whether polio has
been conquered.
Official details of a unique na-
tionwide medical test were an-
nounced yesterday by the Na-
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis.
The children will get three suc-
cessive shots of a vaccine made
of killed polio virus and triple-
tested for safety.
The vaccine was developed by
Dr. Jonas E. Salk of the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh. It will be given
to second graders in public, pri-
vate and parochial schools in
some 200 U. S. counties—none of-
ficially named as yet.
What happens to these young-
sters during next summer’s natur-
al exposure to polio will tell
whether the vaccine is a success.
Success will be assured if these ,
youngsters have less paralytic
polio, or hone, compared with un-
vaccinated children of the first
through third grades in those
same counties.
The answer won’t be known
until some time in 1955 when
careful scientific checkups have
been completed, said Basil O’Con-
nor, foundation president.
If the vaccine does really pro-
tect, then large amounts could be
made available for children of all
ages in 1955, O’Connor said.
The counties and states for the
tests, costing the foundation 7%
million dollars, are still being
chosen.
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and entered the car.
"Bobby was still sitting on the
front seat but Bonnie had left the
car and was walking up a hedge-
row at the rear of the car.
“I had a piece of rope which
was part of a cloth line I had
obtained from Bonnie’s home. I
then placed this rope around
Bobby’s neck and endeavors d to
strangle him.
"This rope was 12 inches or 15
inches long and was too short for
me to hold in my hands and get
a good twist. Bobby was strug-
gling and kicking, so I took my
.38 calibre revolver and fired
what I believed to be two shots at
Bobby’s had at close range.
“I missed him on the first shot,
but the second one entered his
head, causing him to bleed pro-
fusely and subsequently die'. I do
not remember exactly what posi-
tion Bobby was in at the time of
his death but I believe I had
pushed him down on the floor of
the Plymouth (Mrs. Heady’s sta-
tion wagon).
“Because of his profuse bleed,
ing from the h-ad, I pulled him
out of the station wagon on the
side opposite the driver and plac-
ed him on the ground. I was cer-
tain at this point that the victim
was dead. So I picked him up and
placed him on the plastic sheet at
the rear of the station wagon,
wrapping him in this sheet and
covering the" body over with the
old comforter which was in the
station wagon.”
As the gru some story was un-
folded in the packed courtroom,
Robert C. Greenlease, the multi-
millionaire father of the little
boy, sat just inside the court rail-
ing. He was less than eight feet
visions of the Korean armistice ,, I ,
agreement covering POWs must sh. arr ex er
be carried out to the letter.
He said these provisions state
that 120 days after the prisoners
were turned over to the Repatria-
tion Commission, for explanations
by Rods trying to persuade them
to go home, they must be given
their freedom and civilian status.
He said the date for doing this
will be Jan. 22.
The Koreans among the anti-
Communist prisoners, Dulles told
The Design and Construction of
the Texas Board of Control has
s t December 16, at 10 a.m., as
the final date for receiving bids
for the construction of a National
Guard armory in Mt. Pleasant.
Plans and specifications arc avail-
abl from the Board of Control,
as fully set out in an official no-
tice in Tuesday’s issue of the
Daily Times. The advertisement
for bids will be found on the
classified page of that issue.
The armory will be located on
a plot of ground leased to the
state by the Titus County Fair
Association. It will be built just
east of Highway 271, across the
highway from the new Titus
County Memorial Hospital.
Louis P. Bohmert, local archi-
tect, will be consulting architect
for the project.
close associate
CIEVELAND, Nov. 17 (A) —
The CIO was ready to approve a
“no raiding” pact with the AFL
today, but the chances of the
agreement blossoming into, any
early AFL-CIO merger seemed
dim.
Overwhelming approval by the
CIO’s 700 convention delegates of
the “no raiding” plan was fore-
cast. It would bind individual
AFL and CIO unions subscribing
to it to refrain from attempting
to persuade already-organized
union members to switch from
AFL to CIO, or vice versa.
While the agreement represents
a forward step toward achieving
an eventual AFL-CIO merger, top
officials of both the AFL and
CIO seemed doubtful that the
desired unity can be achieved any
time soon.
In fact, CIO President Walter
Reuther displayed some irritation
.yesterday in his keynote conven-
Ron speech at recent remarks of
AFL President George Meany, al-
though Reuther said he had con-
fidence in Meany and the AFL
leadership.
Meany recently was quoted as
saying the CIO was formed by
ASL leaders to foster political
ideas and throw their weight
around in national politics.
Reuther, somewhat angrily,
said Meany’s memory “failed him
badly” because the CIO was
formed out of the AFL in 1935
to organize the mass production
industries. Reuther said the AFL
was unwilling to undertake this
job at the time.
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The n xt edition of the Mt.
Pleasan. Daily Times XTRA,
specia' Value Day paper, will
b placed in the mails on Fri-
day, November 27, in as much
as the December Value Day
falls on December 1.
in view of the fact that the
printing day foliows Thenks-
giving, which will be observed
as a holiday in Mt. Pleasant,
several publication problems
must be met and overcome.
For this reason, it is impera-
tive that AA Value Day copy
be in the office of the Daily
Times NOT ATER than Mon-
day, November 23. That as
you know is next Monday.
It is th plan of most of the
stores to use Value Day as the
opening of Christmas adver-
tising campaigns, aid a heavy
edition of th XTRA is expect-
ed. It is impossible, theretore,
for Value Day copy to be ac-
c. pted after next Monday.
The Daily Times
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (A) —
The Air Force disclosed last
night some details of an “ex-
tremely high speed” experimental
plane which looks like a huge
dagger covered with pinholes,
but it said security forbids say-
ing how it has performed.
The plane, called the X3, was
built by the Santa Monica, Calif.,
division of Douglas Aircraft Co.,
and has been under test for about
a year.
It has a fuselage length of 63%
feet, slightly greater than that of
Korean problems is impossible.
The talks resume tomorrow.
fMeanwhile, Communist inter-
views with Chinese and Korean
war prisoners1 who refused to go
home were called off again today
when the Reds called for POWs
skipped by persuaders yesterday.
The Neutral Nations Repatria-
Con Commission called off inter-
views for tomorrow when the
Reds had not filed a request for
prisoners from a new compound
by the 10 a.m. deadline.
U. N. and Communist proposals
for setting up the Korean peace
conference came after three;
weeks of maneuvering and Dean
told newsmen afterward, “This
is going to be a long horse trade.”
Robert Ledterman, Tulsa, Okla.,
who acted as one of the inter-
mediaries in negotiating the $600,-
000 ransom, sat at Greenlease’s
side. Ledterman is the man who
once told Hall over the telephone
during the negotiations: "I hope
I get to see you some time.” At
that time, Hall told him “you
never will have that opportun-
ity.”
Late yesterday the confession
of the 41-year-old Mrs. Bonnie
Heady, a respectable housewife
turned drunkard, was read to the
jury. It gave the grim details of
how Carl Austin Hall, dope ad-
dict and ex convict, shot to death
6-year-old Bobby soon after his
abduction.
It was the first time the public
had heard the full confession. U.
S. Dist. Atty. Edward Scheufler
read the 26 pages.
In his opening statement for
the govern m nt, Scheufler had
asked the death penalty for both
Hall and the woman “because of
the nature of the crime.”
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cording to Dan Latimer, Cham-
ber of Commerce festival chair-
man. It will be held Thursday,
Dec. 3.
Latimer stated that the float
chairman, Jack Kelley, reports
that float entries thus far include
Fine Arts Club, Future Home-
makers of America, Rotaryette
Club, Titus County Home Dem-
onstration Council, The Key Club,
Chapel Hill School, and Junior
Delphian Club.
The band committee chairman,
Max Murphy, stated that six
bands have accepted invitations
to participated in the festival.
They are Pewitt, Pittsburg, Sul-
phur Springs, Booker T. Wash-
ington, the Mt. Pleasant High
School Band and the feature at-
traction of the parade, the Paris
Junior College high school band
and the Paris Jets, a colorful
group of attractive dancing girls.
Evening entertainment to be
held on the courthouse plaza will
feature the Mt. Pleasant High
School Choir, under direction of
Lee Gray, in a program of Christ-
mas music.
The merchants committee has
stated that plans call for the
merchants to open at seven o'-
clock, directly, after the evening
program, and have open house
for the convenience of out-of-
town visitors until 8:30 p.m.
Installation of the Christmas
decorations for the down-town
area will begin within the next
several days and attempts are
being made for additions to last
year's decorations.
It is hoped, said Latimer, that
organizations and business estab-
lishments will enter floats, dec-
orated automobiles, or any thing
of a festive nature to make this
year’s program a success.
information on which to discuss
Mrs. Agnes Watson,
First entries for the
Christmas Festival were
nounced by the committee,
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Nov. 17
(A) — A 36-year-old mother in
critical condition in a hospital
here this morning will be charged
with first degree murder in the
deaths of her two children.
Prosecutor H. A. Tucker said
last night that two first degree I
charges, which carry a possible I
death penalty, will be filed again- I
st Mrs. Velma Lorene Swofford
if she recovers from an overdose
of sleeping pills.
Mrs. Swofford's children, Mike,
8, and Donna Ruth, 2, were found
dead in the family’s small apart-
ment here yesterday. Deputy
Coroner Dr. Robert Lee said the
children were killed by injections
of bichloride of mercury.
Dr. Lee said Mrs. Swafford,
who was found sprawled on the
kitchen floor, left a suicide note
in which she chronicled the death
of her children. He said the wo-
man, a registered nurse, apparent-
ly had planned to kill herself
with an injection of the poison,
but was overcome too quickly by
the sleeping pills. A hypodermic
syringe filled with poison was
found beneath Mrs. Swafford.
Dr. Lee quoted a nte written
i by Mrs. Swofford as saying that
1 Mrs. Swofford was “tired of hav-
ing my children pushed around.”
Dr. Lee said the note related
Mrs. Swofford’s son was suffer-
ing from muscular dystrophy;
her husband had left her, and
that she and the children were
without money to buy food.
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 17 (P) —
The grim story of how Carl Aus-
ton Hall shot and killad little
Bobby Greenlease as he struggled
for his life was today in the ex-
oonvict’s confession.
The confession was made pub-
lic for the first time when it was
read at the federal kidnap trial
of Hall and Mrs. Bonnie Brown
Heady,' the alcoholic divorcee, be-
fore a jury called to determine
whether they shall die for their
crime.
Hall, the 34-year-old playboy
who turned to crime when his in-
herited fortune was squandered,
showed little sign of emotion as
the 36 pages of gruesome details
wcre read by A. S. Reeder, one of
two FBI agents who took the con-
fession.
Hall related how he had driven
the boy and Mrs. Heady across
the state line into Kansas soon
after 6-year-old Bobby had been
abduoted from a private Catholic
school in Kansas City.
"Bobby had not offeredany re-
sistance and had not made any
outcries,” the confession read,
“but seemed interested in his ride
and appeared to be enjoying him-
self during th; trip.
"After stopping the car, I got
out on the driver’s side, went to
the rear anl let the tailgate down,
then laid out the blue plastic
sheet. I then went around the car
to the side opposite the driver
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Truman’s fighting speech split
political reaction squarely down
the middle. Democrats—includ-
ing some who have been critical
of him. Republicans scoffed at
his defense, promised more dis-
closures to come.
Adlai E. Stevenson, the 1952
Democratic presidential nominee,
said in Chicago that “it is in-
famous that the man who has
done more than anyone else to
organize and fortify the free
world against communism should
be subjected to such malicious
political attack.”
Leonard W. Hall, chairman of
the Republican National Commit-
tee, termed false Truman’s as-
sertion the GOP organization had
worked “hand in glove” with
Brownell on the White case. He
said the committee learned of
Brownell’s original Chicago
speech on the subject only It)
minutes before it was made on
Nov. 6.
“If Mr. Truman’s statement is
representative of the truth of the
balance of his presentation, then
no reliance whatsoever can be
put on anything in the former
President’s explanation,” Hall de-
clared.
Sen. Ferguson of Michigan,
chairman of the Senate Repub-
lican Policy Committee, followed
Truman on the air last night to
declare that if the former Presi-
dent was aiding FBI investiga-
tions in the White case there re-
mained unanswered questions as
to why he had labeled congres-
sional probes as “red hearrings.”
into department files—including
those of the FBI—in preparation
for his testimony.
Brownell was reported to be
prepared to introduce some of
this material as evidence.
The Senate group on its own
moved toward bringing names of
other former Truman administra-
tion officials into its inquiry.
Chairman Jenner (R-Ind) an-
nounced he has asked Brownell
for a report on the Truman ad-
ministration’s handling of the
cases of Harold Glasser and
Frank V. Coe, who like White
were in the Treasury Depart-
ment.
Both Glasser and Coe have re-
fused to answer committee ques-
tions as to whether they had
Communist affiliations or engag-
ed in espionage activities.
Truman told the nation Monday
night he permitted White’s ap-
pointment as U. S. director of the
International Monetary Fund to
go through in 1946 to keep from
exposing an FBI' investigation of
an alleged spy ring.
He said the action was taken
on his "final responsibility” after
consultation with the late Fred
M. Vinson, then secretary of the
Treasury and later chief justice,
and Tom Clark, then attorney
general and now a Supreme
Court justice.
Truman did not mention FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover as par-
ticipating in these conferences—
a circumstance that prompted
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (A) —
Sen. McClellan (D-Ark) said to-
day that "unless the Republicans
can reverse the farm trends in
the next year, a Democratic Con-
gress will be elected next Novem-
ber.”
The Arkansan made the state-
ment, in an interview, on his re-
turn to the capital after several
weeks in his home state.
McClellan said, he had found
general dissatisfaction among the
farmers in Arkansas, so much so
that he predicted agricultural pol-
icy will be “a highly important
issue” in next year’s congres-
sional elections.
Livestock raisers have been hit
hard by falling prices for their
animals and rising prices for
things they must buy, the sena-
tor said.
He said his statement about the
possibility of his party’s recap-
turing control of Congress next
year “does not imply that Presi-
dent Eisenhower personally is
becoming unpopular.”
“But,” he said, “the people
seem to feel that the Republican
Congress has not been able to
move in any positive direction,
or to come to grips with the prob-
lems that face us.”
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