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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 2, 1952
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Four Sightseeing Americans Taken
Into Custody by Red Police in Berlin
July Violent Death Toll in
Texas Already Reached 13
Leased Wire Report
and Wirephoto Service
City Acquires Transfer
Of Howzeville Project
Speaker Rayburn and Senator Russell Favorites
Of Rival Texas Democratic Convention Delegations
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COOKE COUNTY FREE LIBRARY
GAINESVILLE, TEXAS
Roy Blackburn
Is Katy Agent
Roy Blackburn has been ap-
pointed division freight and pass-
enger agent with headquarters at
Denison, it is announced by S. D.
Sparks, assistant to J. F. Hen-
10 DIE IN FLOODS
TOKYO, July 2 (/I3) — Heavy
rains in western Japan the past
two days caused the death of 10
persons and flooded 9,632 houses,
provincial police reported today.
114 Deathless Days
IN COOKE COUNTY
(Outside Gainesville)
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By RUSSELL BRINES
WASHINGTON, July 2 (AP)—A congressional committee offi-
cally charged Russia today with killing 15,000 Polish officers 12
years ago and said the massacre “may well have been a blueprint
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AUSTIN, Tex., July 2 (ZP) —
Speaker Sam Rayburn and Sen.
Richard Russell (D-Ga.) look
like the first-ballot favorites of
Texas’ two rival delegations to
the Democratic National conven-
tion.
An Associated Press poll estab-
lished Rayburn, Gov. Adlai Stev-
enson of Illinois and Sen. Estes
Kefauver (D-Tenn.) as the fa-
vorites of the liberal or “Loyal
ing project was active. The PHA
alleged that these charges had
been based on tuition rates in-
stead of the tax structure of the
Loving school district in which
the housing unit is located.
A compromise agreement was
worked out whereby the PHA
waived payment of $12,199.99 in
lieu of taxes from the project
during the disputed years, leav-
ing a balance of $8,091.14 which
was included in the total consid-
eration paid to the PHA Tuesday
night.
City Manager Homer Bly and
the Council expressed both re-
lief and satisfaction at conclud-
ing the transfer and announced
plans to begin salvaging mater-
rials from Howzeville which
takes in 82.94 acres of land ad-
jacent to the former Camp
Howze. Bly said that 35 build-
ings are still in the area with a
Georgia Delegates’ Contest
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Ft. Worth News
Official Succumbs
FORT WORTH, July 2 (P) —
Glenn S. Coffin, 54, comptroller
of the Star-Telegram and WBAP
died yesterday after a brief ill-
ness.
He joined Carter Publications,
Inc., in 1937, specializing in tax
matters. Coffin was a graduate
of Port Arthur college and a na-
tive of Jennings, La.
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BYRNES INTERVIEWED — The possibility of a southern
revolt against the Democratic party is discussed by Gover-
nor James F. Byrnes of South Carolina at a press confer-
ence in Houston, Tex. It depends largely on the party's
civil rights program, he indicated. The press conference
came during the governors convention in Houston. — (AP
Wirephoto.)
After two years of negotiating
and wading through governmen-
tal red tape, the Howzeville hous-
ing project was transferred to
the City of Gainesville Tuesday
night at the regular meeting of
the City Council.
The long—and sometimes hope-
less appearing — struggle to ac-
quire possession of the housing
project north of the city was cul-
minated when the Council un-
animously approved a motion
that Mayor F. M. Aldridge, Sr.,
sign a check for $29,196.10 over
to the Public Housing adminis-
tration.
Actual cost of the project to
the city was only about $18,000
as $11,852.19 realized from the
sale of 28 buildings from the
area in 1948 was included in the
check. The money had been held
in escrow pending the outcome
of the negotiations.
Final transfer of the project
was blocked last year by the in-
sistence of PHA officials that the
government had been over-
charged some $20,291.13 for tui-
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for Korea.”
The committee reported to the
house on a six months’ investiga-
tion into the murder of Polish
officers in Katyn forest, western
Russia, in the spring of 1940.
The report urged that the find-
ings be forwarded to the United
Nations for appropriate action
against the Russians in the U.N.
general assembly and before the
world court. It also recommended
that the president instruct the
United States delegation to seek
the creation of an international
Commission to investigate “other
mass murders and crimes against
humanity.”
Chairman Madden (D-Ind) of
the special investigating commit-
tee told a press conference that
congress next session “should
seriously consider” a similar
probe into atrocities against al-
lied troops in Korea.
The committee reported a
“striking similarity between
what happened to the Polish of-
ficers in Katyn and the events
now taking place in Korea.” The
group heard 81 witnesses in this
country and Europe and studied
depositions from one hundred
others on the Katyn episode.
“We unanimously agree that
this committee would be remiss
in its duty to the American peo-
ple and the free people of the
world,” the report said, “if it
failed to point out that the iden-
tical evasions by the Soviets to
the Polish government while the
Poles were searching for their
15,000 missing officers in 194-1,
appear again in the delaying tac-
tics now being used by the Com-
munists in Korea.”
Rep. O’Konski (R-Wis) first
disclosed details of the commit-
tee report.
late Tom H. Scales, who passed
away recently in Dallas. Fre-
quent visits to Gainesville are
part of the agent’s routine.
Mr. Blackburn has been gen-
eral agent at El Paso.
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Hold Four Hostages
CONCORD, Mass. (A)—Thirty-
four tough prisoners, armed with
knives, wrenches and table legs,
rioted at Concord State reforma-
tory for three hours yesterday
while holding four employes as
hostages.
But they surrendered meekly
after getting a guarantee of no
reprisal from State Commission-
er of Correction Maxwell B.
Grossman.
The instructors and guards
were released unharmed before
the prisoners filed out of the bar-
ricaded store house.
The rioters wrecked the deten-
tion pen, a two-story structure in
the east wing of the reformatory.
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June Building
Permits in City
Above May Totals
After slumping in May, build-
ing in Gainesville took another
turn upward during June, ac-
cording to building permits is-
sued during the month..
Twenty-six permits totalling
$79,365 were issued during June,
W. C. Simpson, city building in-
spector said today.
This represents an increase of
$28,165 over the' totals for May,
though February continues as
the peak building month of the
year in the city with $107,650.
For the sixth straight month,
single family dwellings account-
ed for the bulk of the total
building in the city, with 10 per-
mits issued for a total of $49,690.
Other June permits were: re-
pair' on seven dwellings, $3,750;
additions on four residences,
$2,900; one new business build-
ing, $12,000; addition to one bus-
iness building, $350; remodel one
business building, $10,000; and
two new private garages, $675.
Simpson also reported that a
total of 17 fire runs were made
in the city during the month,
with grass fires accounting for
10 of them.
Jr., vice president of
collision near
was patrolman
Thomas, 47.
Earl Morris,
Their names are not available.
West German police and eye-
witnesses gave this account:
The Americans were sightsee-
ing in Zehlendorf, a residential
district in the western sector of
Berlin. The district borders the
Soviet occupation zone of Ger-
many.
The Americans had stopped
! their car at the border and were
taking photographs. A Russian
officer and several East zone
“People’s Police,” armed with
carbines, rushed the car.
The police entered the car and
forced it across the border. The
Americans were held for about
20 minutes at the Soviet check
point on the border, then were
taken to the Soviet military post
at nearby Machnow.
Iron spikes in the road mark
the approach to the boundary
between the American sector of
Berlin and Germany’s , Soviet
zone. The Americans drove past
these spikes and right up to the
red and white barrier pole at the
Soviet check point.
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pass at Somerville early Tues-
day, killing three enlisted men
from Bryan air force base. Dead
were Staff Sergeant Thomas E.
Combs, 33, of Austin, Ind.; Air-
man 1-c James Robert Cort, 21,
Hannibal, Mo.; and Doyle Man-
ning, 25, Robertsville, Ala.
Two brothers died Monday
night south of Big Spring when
their car struck a parked truck.
They were Raymond Merworth,
46, and James T. Merworth,
about 32, both of Sidney, Tex.
An Odessa policeman was
killed Monday in a head-on auto
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Slightly Cooler
Weather in Texas
By The Associated Press
Slightly cooler temperatures
prevailed throughout Texas
Tuesday night, and scattered
light afternoon showers were
expected to help hold tempera-
tures down in some cities Wed-
nesday afternoon.
Overnight readings ranged
from 63 degrees in Dalhart to 81
in Galveston, with, most temper-
atures in the sixties and lower
seventies.
Nearly all of the state had
maximum temperatures in the
90’s Tuesday. They were ex-
pected to be about the same
had a hard time making up its
mind. Even President Truman,
the target of much of its ire, got
one vote; Averell W. Harriman
one, Kerr four, Rayburn three,
Stevenson three and a half. Some
observers were taking this as a
sign the conservatives would be
willing to compromise if a real
compromise should be offered.
Others with a scattering of
third-choice votes from individ-
uals in the Shivers delegation
were Alben W. Barkley, Estes
Kefauver, Russell, Shivers, and
Sen. Brien McMahon (D-Conn.):
Rayburn led in the total of
first, second and third choices of
the “Loyalists” with 24 votes;
Stevenson was a close second
with 23; Kefauver a strong third
with 18.
In taking the poll, individual
letters were written each dele-
gate, asking them to indicate
their first, second, third, etc. se-
lections on a prepared ballot list-
ing Barkley, Harriman, Kefau-
ver, Kerr, Rayburn, Russell,
Shivers, Stevenson, Truman, and
leaving spaces for write-ins. The
write-ins from both factions were
William O. Douglas, McMahon
and Byrd.
Delegates were not required to
sign their ballots. Many'wrote
in that they felt it would be im-
proper to vote in view of their
convention’s no instruction man-
date.
The belligerent Texas Demo-
crats split over the question of
party loyalty.
Each convention named 62 del-
egates to cast 52 votes, and each
delegation will storm Chicago
with positive claims that it rep-
resents the real Democratic par-
ty in Texas. The convention it-
self may have the last word.
The “Loyalist” pro-adminis-
tration convention pledged its
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A FORMER GAINESVILLE
woman who has made a name for
herself in industry, is -MRS.
ANNE BREWSTER of Burbank,
Calif.
She is the former Anne Bird,
daughter of EDGAR BIRD,
and a granddaughter of the late
GEORGE Y. BIRD, Gainesville’s
first mayor, who built the first
brick business building in this
city at the corner of Commerce
and Main streets. Mrs. Brewster
was born in this city.
She is president of Marjanne,
Inc., designers of custom made
clothing, is a member of the Bur-
bank Coordinating council, pres-
ident of Zonta International, and
president of the Parent-Teacher
association at Joaquin Miller
school in Burbank. She is also
secretary-treasurer of Acme
Sash Balance company of Los
Angeles, and her brother,
ARTHUR BIRD is vice president
of the company.
During the war, Mrs. Brewster
was woman’s counselor at Vega
Aircraft plant. An article en-
titled “Who’s Who—Women of
Burban k”, concerning Mrs.
Brewster recently appeared in
the Burbank Daily Review.
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“Did they think it was worth
it?
“I’m willing to do anything to
help prevent paralysis — in my
children and in all children,”
said Robert N. Smaistrla.
And that was the general at-
titude of all the parents at this
one clinic, at the beginning of
the test.
“I called my doctor and he said
he could give my children a shot
of gamma globulin,” said Mrs.
Fred E. Hughes, as she held her
son Knox, 18 months, and kept
a watchful eye on Freddy, 2%2.
“But this experiment may bene-
fit all children. I want to help.”
The big room of the commu-
nity center was literally alive
with children—tugging at their
fathers and their mothers, play-
ing with each other. Some quiet-
ly looked at funny books and
some listened while their par-
ents told familiar children’s
stories.
The first child to be inoculated
was the blonde, five-year-old
daughter of Dr. Matthew Burn-
ett, polio adviser to the Harris
County Polio association.
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Tonight and Thursday,
partly cloudy; not much
change in temperature.
Full we atner report on
classified ad page.
KX/HILE THE FARM roads
VV • which are being constructed
all over the state by the State
Highway department are pri-
marily intended to benefit the
rural dwellers along their routes
and on rural roads that run into
the farm highways, they do
benefit urban centers as well.
A good demonstration of this
advantage is South Grand
avenue in Gainesville. The farm
road that runs southeast from
Gainesville to the Burns city
community starts where South
Grand intersects California
street, and runs south on Grand
to Anthony, and east on Anthony
to the end of that street, and
then continues southeasterly to
its end.
And this week, the Highway
department moved its big road
building machinery onto South
Grand, giving that thoroughfare
a complete new retopping job.
Thus the city of Gainesville is
relieved of the responsibility of
upkeep on this heavily traveled
residential street which also
serves much traffic to the oil
field southeast of the city.
By WILBUR MARTIN
HOUSTON, July 2 (P) — The
tiny children of a city plagued
with polio lined up today for an
experiment medical scientists be-
lieve can prevent paralysis.
At eight clinics the first of 35,-
000 children in the one to six
bracket came to take a 50-50
chance of receiving an injection
of gamma globulin, a blood frac-
tion containing disease fighting
antibodies.
Half of the children were to
receive the blood fraction. The
others a non-effective substitute.
The first clinic wasn’t sched-
uled to begin the injections until
8 a. m., but the first parents ar-
rived an hour early. By 8 a. m.,
150 children had crowded into
the West University Community
center and by 9 a. m. the total
had swelled to 300 and the chil-
dren and parents came in a
steady stream.
The parents sat grimly intent,
adult oasis of quiet in a babble
of childish laughter, screams and
frightened cries.
died Monday at Lufkin of in-
juries received Sunday when his
pickup truck overturned.
At Celeste near Greenville
W. H. Smith, about 35, was
killed Tuesday when his cai’ col-
lided with a freight train at a
crossing.
Mrs. R. L. McGough, 78, was
fatally injured Monday when an
automobile struck her east of
Marlin.
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Property Damage
Heavy in Three
Tuesday Wrecks
wo traffic mishaps in Gaines-
vile and one near the city Tues-
day accounted for heavy prop-
erty damage, but no injuries
were reported.
In the first traffic accident in
the city Thursday automobiles
driven by R. W. Taylor, 22, of
Muenster and Fred J. Pulte, 49,
of 1812 Culberson street were
damaged slightly in a collision
at 4:45 p. m. Taylor was driving
west on Elm street and Pulte
north on Rusk street when their
cars collided in the middle of the
intersection.
At 8:30 p. m. cars driven by
Mrs. Mildred M. Suggs, 112
North Commerce street; and
George L. Trimble, 21, of 619
Ritchey street, collided at the in-
tersection of West California and
Commerce streets.
Damage to Trimble’s 1949 Ford
was estimated at $250 and dam-
age to the 1952 Chevrolet driven
by Mrs. Suggs was $200.
Police report that. Mrs. Suggs
was making a left turn off Cali-
fornia street onto Commerce
street and Trimble was going
east on California street at the
time of the collision.
William Charles Butlan, 38, of
Denison narrowly escaped injury
about 7:45 p. m. when his auto-
mobile ran off highway 82 about
five miles west of the city.
Damage to the 1950 Kaiser sta-
tion wagon was estimated at $800
by Highway • Patrolman Lester
Robertson, who investigated the
accident.
Butlan was driving east and
said that he met another car in
the middle of the road, causing
him to swerve into the ditch.
Full Holiday to
Be Observed in
City on July 4
A full holiday will be observed
in Gainesville Friday of this
week in observance of National
Independence day but there will
be no public program in the city.
The stores belonging to the
Retail Merchants association will
be closed* all day. Public offices
in the court house and city hall,
federal agencies, including the
post office, and the banks of the
city will also be closed all day.
No edition of The Daily Regis-
ter will be issued Friday in keep-
ing with the long established
custom of giving a holiday to
employes on the Fourth of July.
Many Gainesville citizens will
go to nearby resorts to observe
the holiday, including Lake Tex-
oma and Lake Murray, as well
as more distant playgrounds.
Leonard park in Gainesville
will be the scene of a number of
picnic parties. The rides at Fair
park will be in operation during
the afternoon and evening hours.
A combination of the Gaines-
ville Owls and the Tigers will
play a Negro baseball team from
Lawton, Okla., at 4 p. m. in
Locke field here.
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delegates and electors to support
the national convention’s nomi-
nees. The “regular” anti-admin-
istration delegates are not so
pledged, nor are this conven-
tion’s presidential electors bound
to support the national party’s
nominees.
Because both delegations were
uninstructed on presidential can-
didates, the Associated Press
sought to find out what their
personal favorites were.
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Delegation
Tossed Out
By The Associated Press
The Republican national com-
mittee voted in Chicago today to
seat a solid-for-Taft delegation
from Georgia in the Republican
presidential convention.
While Sen. Robert A. Taft was
winning this victory over Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
Truman offered a preview of
what he thinks the Democratic
platform ought to be in the cam-
paign against whoever heads the
Republican ticket.
Truman was in Arkansas for a
speech in which he lambasted
his critics and said the Demo-
crats should stick to the Roose-
velt-Truman policies which
“have been the salvation of this
country.”
While the GOP committee vote
to seat the all-Taft Georgia dele-
gation still is subject to action
by the convention’s credentials
committee and the convention it-
self, it was the biggest Taft tri-
umph yet in this week’s GOP
battles.
It represented a net gain of at
least 15 convention votes for the
Ohio senator, since all 17 on the
group approved by the com-
mittee were for Taft. Of the op-
posing slate, 14 were for Eisen-
hower, two were for Taft and one
was uncommitted.
Meanwhile, Taft himself de-
nied at Chicago that he had any-
thing to do with the committee
vote to bar television of the hear-
ings on the delegate contests.
Truman traveled “whistlestop”
style to Bull Shoals, Ark., and
there dedicated two dams he said
were symbols of southern prog-
ress' under his presidency.
“The New Deal and the Fair
Deal have done more for the
south” than any other adminis-
trations in history, he declared
in a sharp reply to his southern
critics.
He also dismissed as a “lying
slogan” the charge that his “Fair
Deal” administration follows the
pattern of socialism.
Work also went forward in
Chicago on drafting the Repub-
lican platform. This was out-
wardly free of the Taft-Eisen-
hower disputes.
The Associated Press tabula-
tion of pre-convention delegate
strength, based on avowed and
conceded first-ballot alignments,
shows Taft has a 474-to-410 edge
over Eisenhower. Nomination re-
quires 604, one more than half
the total delegates.
The national committee’s task
is to decide which of contesting
delegates, the one for Taft or the
ones for Eisenhower, should be
recognized and seated. The nod
Tuesday, on 18 delegates from
Florida, went to Taft.
After Georgia come the rest
of the 72-vote total accepted for
settlement by the committee —
one in Kansas, six in Louisiana,
four in Mississippi, one in Mis-
souri and 38 in Texas. The Texas
dispute, biggest and hottest, may
not get before the committee be-
fore Thursday or Friday.
Whichever way the decisions
go, the losing side undoubtedly
will appeal them to the conven-
tion credentials committee and
then the convention itself.
The committee has banned
radio microphones and all cam-
eras—news, movie and television
—from the hearing room. Repor-
ters are being admitted.
Little fireworks was expected
in the platform committee hear-
ing. Spokesmen for various
groups were called up for a final
day of testimony before the
group settles down to writing
the formal statement of policy.
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Democrat” delegates who re-
sponded.
The competing conservative or
“regular” delegation headed by
Gov. Allan Shivers showed high-
est regard for Russell, Shivers,
and then split toward Sen. Rob-
ert S. Kerr (D-Okla.), Steven-
son, Rayburn, Kefauver, Sen.
Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) and oth-
ers as later choices.
Actually it was more than a
poll of the big 52-vote delega-
tion, sixth largest headed for the
floor of the Chicago convention
July 21. It was a personal letter
check of 124 individual district
or delegates-at-large selected by
two separate conventions.
Replies were received from
delegates representing 36 votes
of the conservative camp headed
by Gov. Shivers. From the lib-
eral side, whose chief strategist
at Chicago is expected to be for-
mer New Deal Congressman
Maury Maverick of San Anto-
nio, there were 34 replies.
The Shivers delegation — in-
structed to fight for states rights
platform planks and oppose fed-
eral FEPC-made Russell a heavy
2212-vote first-ballot favorite.
Shivers, who vows he is not and
will not be a candidate, got 1012
first choices.
While Rayburn was the No. 1
pick of the liberal or “loyalist”
delegates with 13 12 votes, Kefau-
ver was second with 712; Stev-
enson third with 6; President
Truman fourth with 5%2.
In nearly every case, delegates
from the conservative wing of
the party who returned the pref-
erential ballots indicated a vote
for Shivers was the equivalent of
a vote for Russell on both first
and second choices.
But in making their third and
later selections, the Texas
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nist police arrested four Ameri-
can tourists today and forced
them to cross into the Soviet oc-
cupation zone. One of the men
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By The Associated Press
The July death count in Texas
climbed to 13 Wednesday with
the usually hazardous Fourth of
July holiday still to come.
Eleven were killed in traffic,
one died in a plane crash and
another drowned.
Mrs. Kate L. McGannon, 72, of
Dallas was injured fatally Tues-
day in a two-car crash near
Grapevine in Tarrant county.
She died four hours after the ac-
cident.
Raymond Hoerner, 40, Corpus
Christi upholstery shop operator
was killed Tuesday afternoon in
a smashup near Corpus Christi.
A Wichita Falls infant, Lisa
Moer, 18 months, drowned in a
fish pond while she and her
mother were visiting relatives in
another part of town. She was
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Le-
roy Moer.
A veteran crop-duster pilot,
Tom B. Hosford, 36, was killed
Tuesday when his airplane ex-
ploded over a plantation near
Caldwell.
A car smacked into an under-
THE TEXAS FLAG WAVES AMID GOP ARGUMENTS — James Stickler of Corpus Christi,
Texas, waves his state's flag amid confusion that prevailed as the Republican National Com-
mittee convened in Chicago and then walked out on TV cameras as it met to decide con-
tests between rival delegations. Stickler is GOP chairman of Nueces county, Texas. Part
of the TV crews can be seen in the balcony.— (AP Wirephoto.)
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