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CLEBURNE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1949
44TH. YEAR, NO. 276
WHITNEY DAM PROJECT ASSURED OF $10,500,000
Mix-up in Hospital Reported
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Center Placed Near Shreveport
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to swim from a stalled
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sion lines and communicati ons wires.
itch raise, cot*
visory in the vicinity of Shreve-
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was drenched by 6.81
ice and schools were
damage estimates wers
compiled.
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FIVE FELONS FLEE AMARILLO JAIL
they wete not considered particu- that out.
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strip
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ture they will make . s
A drunk wedved into an ele-
vator shaft fell tive stories to
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the
lint cotton
the flaw -
Cotton
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With over a week of comparative
inactivity, both city firemen and
policemen, made up for the recess
during the last 24 hours.
Two fires and an auto accident,
all happening within a period of
ten minuts today, sent three fire
trucks from Central Fire Station
and a police squad car from City
Hall almost simultaneously.
Nobody was injured in the acci-
dent. Both autos, however, were
badly smashed. The accident oc-
curred at James and Anglin Streets.
I rate in ths
thde afternoon
Mal.
thtehanan
i five to 13 days
for the cotton to
tiny ragweed
mated the eurn
par oubib yard
calcium cyi
It takes 1
after treata
shed all its
the type <
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OLICE KILL RECLUSE
NEW BEDFORD, Masa. Oct 5.
P—An 84-year-old recluse barri-
ided himseif in his attic and bat-
ed it out with a score of police
rly today, until 10 police bullets
M him.
Inactive Period' Ended 1
For.City:Police,-Firemen r
Ruta and Wind
The Weather Bureau said rain
and wind gusts up to 30 miles an
hour could be expected in South-
east and- Eastern Arkansas' * and
Northwest Misslssippi during the
day and night
Police held a 37-year-old hitch-
Iker who said he rode with the
an from Los Angeles to San Jose.
The 49-year-old Wittner was be-
eved to be in the oil business.
cess to these machines are not
worried about Johnson Coun-
ty being on the Mexican gov-
ernment blacklist. If the Mexi-
can laborers were available, this
method of gathering the crop
would coot the farmer approxi-
mately 840 per bale.
The machines may be pur-
chased at a cost of from 8800 to
$1,200. A cotton producer with
as many as M bales of cot-
ton may pay for the machine in
PY LG
for their
burne toe
Last Word In
Johnson County
"A friend of the family
ort Worth Man
hot to Death
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 5—-(U.m—
olice checked the identity today of
man found shot to death in an
ato court where he was registered
I George Wittner, Fort Worth. ,
A pistol and an empty whisky
ottle were found beside his bed
hen his body was discovered yes-
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agmente estg
count was 32
must be prepared for
, seyen to 10 days be-
LOST: .
this depan
ume assu
Gaiveston isolated
Galveston, located on an island,
was cut off from the mainland
feM
a
photos of herself, apperen
prove that she, at least, d
need falsies* ’
Miss Wayne apparently
called upon to expose th
sies after Judges revealed
she failed to tell them sh
been married and was the
er of a five-year-old son.
She admitted it but sat
port, moving
ward toward
‘AssoCMOM
Agent Elected
By Soil Group
Marvin S. Miller, Alvarado Route
3, a farmer in the Greenfield com-
munity, was elected supervisor for
Ehe Nolan Aquilla Boll Conservation
rtjtrict. Zone One, at a meeting
held in Cuba schoolhouse last night
Miller will serve as supervisor
for a period of five years.
A large crowd of farmers, who at-
tended the , election, saw a show
which explained the soil conser-
vation set-up for the district and
how it operates
C. A. Munsch, county agent, ex-
plained a soil building program.
The soil building program is expect-
ed to be put into operation on land
left idle by the new government
farm program, which involves acre-
age cuts on cotton and peanut land.
John T. Gordon and Truett Bailey
acted as officers for the election.
Free
With construction funds
scheduled to be depleted
about Dec. 1 on the $40,-
000,000 Whitney Dam pro-
ject, the outlook took on a
brighter hue today when it
ther noth
ed while
---ACCUSER NEEDS NO PADDING
Charge of 'Falsies' Hurled At !
Bathing Beauty Contest Judges
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and
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- rain last night. Monroe
in the northeaet part of the state
had 4.34 inches.- Lowland rice
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“The normal oount, of course,
is no grains at all," Wende stat-
ed. "It only takes' about 28
grains per oubio yard to bring
on symptoms of hayfever."
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Congress Set thebe u. always be a doubt
For Approval Families Confused When Baby
Miao Wayne said she could
be of help in that departmet
"I never never knew anything
about them before, because I
don't need them, but I can spot
falsies at 30 yards nowi
ACCIDENTAL DROWNING
HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. - - *
A verdict of accidental
was returned today In <____
of a 44-year-old man whos body
was taken from BuffaloBAyoyes-
terday. • .
The victim was tentatively identi-
fied as John Sheridan Shields of
Chattanooga, Tenn.
. above, to string
__________ Crosby brothers ,
Bing, Iwrttt and Lam aims fas
WHITEWRIGHT, Texas, Oct. 5—
(U.P — Gene Carroll, 16, a White-
wright high school football player,
was killed yesterday when he was
hurled from a motorcycle into the
side of a fast moving Katy freight
engine.
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1 ’ 3' ft hD 1 Xag168
--et,
-
during the storm's height
high tides sent water over
famed seawall. BUs service
Galveston was halted until
girl who has ever
gets into the compeuuonz "
“But falsies,” he said: What
can we do about that?" e3T
Cleburne TIMES-REVIEW
slowly northeast-
Arkansas.
- bound Prt 22282"awaz by overt^wering Sne Uoy had overpowered na
Paul Gaither said they Dwight Butterfield, M. ’ leaped frm'thejadienticaton rode to the ground floor, letuing
presumably fled in a 1941 car, sto- He said all three were being sent room on the seventh floor into a themselves past the last locked
per bale to not a typographi-
sa "3". m
chines, say a 500-pound bale of
had been divorced for th
years.
The winner, Mrs. Greenfl
also admitted that she had
three-year-old son and a* 0
year-old divorce. 2222
Gar Moore, spokesman 3191
iipe,
RM
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 5. (.m-
Bewildered by wives, motherz
and.falsies, the spot
recent "Miss New Ori---
test were a disillusioned lot to-
Five prisoners escaped from the The reformory - bound pris- larly <
Potter county fall early today af- oners were identified by Gaither The;
ter overpowering a jailer. as: Jim Daniel, 23, Dave Early, 19; Jack 1
Sheriff Paul t ..... ------
IM 1ST SPIAKSR
le Honorable D., D. "Doug”
lings. County Representative,
be the guest speaker for the
A doctor's report that two ba-
bies were mixed up at birth
had two familles confused and
bewildered today.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Strayer
called off a scheduled baptism
of two-week-old Michael Stray-
er. until they could find out if
the black-haired boy is really
their own.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P Stanley said
they would be "willing to swap"
their blonde two-week-old son
Gerald if it proves he is not
their child.
Robinson Memorial Hospital
authorities said they hoped to
HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 5 *■*—The Texas hurricane
took a toll of two lives and wrecked $8,000,000 worth of
property and crops, officials said today.
The dead were Mrs. Alpha Hebert of Port Neches,
ing "live" wire in trying to
Sir pson, 21, Palacios, Tex., who
a,m, tC8T> Weather Bureau ad-
Houston residents, prepared for
a full-fledged blow, escaped with
a few felled trees, downed power
lines and shattered panes oi plate
glass.
The hurricane missed the rich
Rio Grande Valley citrus and
vegetable region.
Today, the storm had all but
broken up. its center, now spread
out over a wide area, was near
Shreveport, La. Weather experts
said it would continue to abate
but that its effects might be felt
as far north as the Ohio River
Valley before dissipating entirely.
The storm was placed in a 4
MOT MUCH WKAR AMD TEAR . .....- ' , , 7--------,
Cotton Strippers Harvest Crops Expertly Gridder Killed
areas were flooded.
In the backwash of the storm
a amall tornado hit the Riceville
community and Gueydan, La., five
miles south, yesterday. Three
small farm houses were demolish-
ed and another was unroofed.
Two children were treated for
minor injurles received when their
house fell in on them.M
Loyal Ladies, IDALIA
ZELL, VALLA KING 46
MILLER making a gestuh
boosting Cleburne. . , Prel
WOERNER arriving on th
CHIEF from Galveston, '
the recent hurrican whici
island was not so terrific.
National Guard Unit plan
crulting campaign. . . Kan
means extra bobs. . . Qu
ary to BOB BEATTUB, or
better football authorities,
been laid low with a virus
Accomodating FRANK K
fering to decorate the ns
phones of the High Seta
Leaders . . Big horns,
have already been painted
KNOPP gets a thanks, an
Orchids to Bob CHAFIN I
School Tax Roll
Lists Completed
Johnson County tax roll valua-
tions on the various schools in the
county have been completed and
approved by commissioners court.
Seventeen schools in the com-
mon school district have a total
valuation of $43,169.39. Independ-
ent schools are carried on the roll
at $50,105.73 There are six schools
listed as Independent.
day.
Post-mortems among the 15
eeauteous entries hought forth
charges that:
1. At least half the contest-
ants wore falsies, and
3. Three of the girls were mar- ,
rled and two wore mothers, in-
cluding the winner.
The three beautles "accused"
of being Mrs. instead of Miss
readily admitted it.
But nobody would own up to
the falsie charge, and it remain-
ed unproved today.
Bolle Wayne, a black-haired,
ollve-skinnd model who didn't,
place in the Sept. 7 contest,
said that at least half the girls
"came to the contest with their
chests In their purses."
At least one of ths "deceiv-
ers" was a first, second or third-
place winner, she said. While
Monists Play
or Optimists
The Cleburne Optimist Club was
ntertained with several piano se-
rctions today by Mrs. Ray Monroe
nd Mary Ruth Bobbitt.
Hubert Foust, pastor of East
lenderson Baptist Church gave the
ivocation. King Armstrong and
lomer T. Walker conducted the
rawlag, with Don Fox winning
he attendance prize furnished by
be program committee.
Dr. L E Cark, R. L Stovall Jr.,
. E Wilbanks and Ray Bunnell
rare initiated into the club by
ohnny Richter, Chaplin
Guests of the club were: Mar-
hall Steadman and L. A English
t Fort Worth, Gene Reeves and
rthur Lane were In charge of
be program.
In front of a fan, which blows
i into a trailer. The trailer,
when filled. Is hooked to an
auto or truck and hauled away
to the gin. ,
The stripped cotton, when
ginned, will produce a sample
similar in grade to snapped cot-
ton. There are still a few bugs
in the almost perfect system of
gathering the major crop. Un-
less the cotton is fully opened
it does not cost much to gath-
er a tale of cotton in Johnson
Coumty this year and two men
can gather from five to 19 tales
per day . . That is U they are
equipped with a gadget known
as a cotton stripper.
For the first time in Johnson
County's history, a cotton gath-
ering machine is working suc-
ceestully for many farmers.
These termers say cotton \may
he gathered with the cotton
RAVENNA o. Oct. 5.—- pied the same hospital room,
an. luc.f children were born a
e‘ for as little
. No, the $150
Widespread damage Wa i reported in the 75,000 acres
of low-lying ricefields from the heavy rains accompany-
ing the storm iwhen it roaref off the Gulf of Mexico early
yesterday .Texas—t -■ -
ton, corn and hegari, suffer ed a $800,000 loss.
Damage was most severe it
Freeport, the first coastal city hi'
by the whirling storm. Authori-
ties said It would cost 8150,000 to
repair homes, utility poles and
signs, buffeted by the high winda.
THIS FART WAS NOT SCHEDULED-SpeactOrs at an air show in Oakla
California, witnessed this sky spectacle when stunt pilot Chet Derby unwittin
flew his smoke trailing plane beneath two Air Force B-29 Superforts. The B?
cruised low over the field as part of the show, but not as a part of Derby’s a
ial acrobatics. (NEA Telephoto).
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Carroll was seated behind
James Bourland of Whitewright
and was thrown Into the engine
when Bourland swerved to miss
the train.
. Funeral services will be held
tomorrow.
Tex., who grabbed a dai
break a fall, and Jimmie !
apparently drowned while I ying
cabin cruiser in Matagorda Bay.
The 112-mile-an-hour b ow wrecked power transmis-
Miss Wayne didn’t name names,
it was reported that she refer-
red to the titlist, redhaired Dar-
win Greenfield. The winner dis-
dained the charges. She said
she had showed other contest-
ants proof positive that she
didn’t need any padding.
Miss Wayne based her con-
clusions on the fact that about
half the girls dressed in the
main dressing room but the rest
"went off into dark comers or
partitioned rooms to put on
their bathing suits.”
"When they came back in
their bathing suits, it was real-
ly remarkable to see how they
had developed themselves In
only two or three minutes,"-she
salda ' *
The raven-haired model doubt-
ed that the girls dressed pri-
vately out of modesty, "They
didn’t have anything the rest of
us hadn't already seen,” she ex-
plained.
Miss Wayne ‘exhibited three
Bolze said the accident-occurred
when the driver of a taxicab at-
tempted to pass another car at
the intersection and failed to see
an auto attempting to dear the
intersection on James Street.
Both fires, one of them originat-
ing from an overheated gas cook
stove and the other from defec-
tive wiring in a washing machine,
resulted in little damage to the
property.
The police activity started last
night when they were called to a
cafe on South Main Street to stop
a fight between two men. Later
the police were forced to take ac-
tion against an irate citizen, who
insistea on wielding a pistol in a
dangerous manner Then again
this morning the police were called
to. an East Cleburne address to
stop two women in a hair-pulling
contest.
So far, no court action has been
taken against the persons in the
affrays or in the auto aecident.
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Start Clearing
Creek Bottoms
Gulf Hurricane Damage Will Ru..
Into Millions; 2 Persons Perish
Mystery Gift To
Aid Court Appeal
ST. LOUIS, Oct s--U.R- A mys-
terious gift today assured Dr. Ro-
bert C. Rutledge Jr., enough money
to appeal his conviction for mur-
dering his wife's alleged seducer.
L L. Scott trustee for the Rut-
ledge appeal fund here, refused to
disclose the name or residence of the
anonymous donor.
Rutledge, a former St Louis baby
specialist, to serving s 70-year sen-
tence in the Iowa State Prison for
killing Byron Hattman in Cedar
Rapids, la., last year.
Scott said money collected to pay
the cost of appealing Rutledge’s
conviction has reached <6,800 and
that the mysterious gift will cover
sll the remainder that is needed. He
said that should be about 85.000.
money saved
have the mixup stetled soon.
Both babies were undergoing
blood tests that should prove
which belongs to which family.
Dr. Edward Meacham, who de-
livered both children, started
the controversy. Both Mrs. Shan-
ley and Mrs. Strayr had occu-
STORM CURSED BY
HAY FEVER SUFFERERS
HOUSTON, Tex, Det 5—(U.R
—The hurricane winds huffed
and puffed, but they didn’t do >
muoh to help out Gulf Coast ,
reejdent plagued with hayfever. j
R, D. Wende, city taboratory,"
direotor, said today that those
little mites of mysory—pollen
graine were still floating
around in large numbers.
wende, whose busiress it is to
take a dey-byday oount of the
Cleburne city street crews have
started the big job of riding East
and West Buffalo Creeks of the
numerous willow trees growing in
the creek bottoms.
The crews will attempt to up-
root the trees with a small bull-
dozer. After the trees have been
uprooted, they will be placed in
piles and burned.
The operation will permit a
more free flow of water in the
streams and will help eliminate
the hazard Of floods, which took
a heivy toll of property last spring
along'the creek banks.
"It is almost impossible to do
a good job, with the equipment
we have,” Mayor T. S. Moon said,
"but we will do our best."
The work was in progress today
in the creek bottom near the Am-
erican Legion Hall and the Coun-
ty jail.
-
because it improves the grade
of cotton and enables both ma-
chine and hand labor to har-
vest a higher percentage of cot-
ton. with loos trash. In wet
years, the system will reduce
the rotting of bolls by opening
up' plants to the sun.
Defoliation causes leaves to
fall from the plant, without re-
ducing the yield of fiber or
seed. There are several chemi-
cals on the market which will
do this job, but the one that has
been used the longest and with
the best results to finely ground
ten a few minutes later from its to the Federal Reformatory on corridor leading to the kitchen. barrier with the benefit of the jell-
parking place two blocks away Dyer Act (stolen car) violations. "They shoved me in a cell and er‛s keys.
from Um jail. They released W. L. Buzzard, al- tocked me up," Burgess said. Gaither said there was apparent-
Three federal prisoners. in trans- fas W. L. Harrison, 50, a local pris- "They took my keys of course, ly no witness to the car theft and
it from Santa Fe, N. M., to the Fe- oner held for two months on swin- As they grabbed me, they said ‘If there had been no report at mid
deral Reformatory at El Reno, Ok- dling and forgery charges. you don't fight, you won’t get morning to indicate which direc-
lahoma, engineered and led the Marion Moss, 31, a jail trusty, hurt’.’’ tion the men were traveling.
escape, Gaither said. was forced to accompany the men Gaither said Daniels, Early and FBI agents, Texas rangers and lo-
They forced a jail trusty to ac- at the threat of bodily harm, Gai- Butterfield had escaped from a cal law enforcement authorities
company them, and additionally ther said. " cell in which they had been lock- In West Texas and Eastern New
they unlocked a tank-type cell and As they left the jail, the felons ed for the night, "But I don't know Mexico and Northwestern Oklaho-
released another prisoner who were unarmed and Gaither said how; we’re still trying to figure ma were put on the alert.
few hours apart on Sept. 21.
While examining baby Gerald
at the Shanley home yesterday
Meacham discovered a scratch
on the right side of the chin
and a tiny bump on the back
of the head. These indicated
that Gerald was an instrument
delivered baby, he said.
But he recalled that theSitan-
tey baoy was not instrument
desvered whiie the Strayer baby
had been.
Hospital Superintendent Tho-
mas J. Hunston immediately or-
dered an investigation.
Mrs Shanley, 22, has two
other children, James, 1, and
Veronica, 2. But Michael, or is it
Gerald, was tae 20-year-old
Mrs. Strayer's first child.
"We'll never feel right about
it now," Mrs. Strayer said. "But
I don’t think we ought to talk
about IL"
The cotton stripper to oper-
ated troma power take off om
a tractor. Steel fingers, fash:
ioned to catch just beneath the
tower Umbo of the phant, liter- A
lily strip the cotton from the
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Reds Will Sign
German Treaty
BERLIN, Oct. 5 ftUO — The Sov-
tola indicated today they would
sign a peace treaty with a Com-
munist - dominated central gov-
ernment to be formed In Eastern
Germany and then withdraw Rus-
sian occupation troops.
Official and unofficial reports
Indicated the new government
claiming jurisdiction over all Ger-
many's 66,000,000 people, would be
formed Friday by proclamation of
the Soviet Zone peoples council.
Taegllche Rundschau, official
newspaper of the Soviet military
administration, said the new state
"Will be a government which will
not be hampered in its activity by
regulations in an occupation stat-
ute of unlimited duration."
"It will be a government with
which, according to the Potsdam
Agreement, a peace treaty can be
concluded, and whose territory af-
ter the conclusion of the peace
treaty can be evacuated by occu-
pation forces,’ 'the paper said.
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. AMARILLO, Texas, Oct. 5 u.m — joined in the flight.
was learned that Senate
and House members in
Washington were expected
to give quick approval to a
compromise appropriation
for flood control, which will
send $37,360,000 into Texas
projects.
The Whitney project will be
aided by $10,500,000. Just how
far this amount will go toward
completion of the dam and ac-
companying projects, could not be
determined today. It was believ-
ed, however, that the , procure-
ment of the funds would preclude
any contemplated work stoppage
lor even a slow-up. Construction
I men. It was learned last week.
I had previously been assured work
I would not be stopped on the dam
for any reason. .
I Emergency Fund
I It was further explained that
Ian emergency fund, setting up
■working expense defrayals, would
I have been arranged for if the
I present allotment had not been
■ forthcoming The amount provid-
led for in the appropriations com-
l promise, is believed to be the
amount anticipated for the fiscal
(year.
| Of the allotment to Texas,
■about $11,837,000 was earmarked.
■ for four dams on the upper Trin-
Lity River in the Dallas vicinity.
I . Final Approval
I The bill is expected to win fl-
Enal approval within a few days.
■The Senate originally voted $751,-
1440,690, the House $593,292,270.
1 The following list for Texas
Lives final compromise project
figures (projects not included
■ware eliminated:
I McGee Bend Dam, $200,000.
1 Belton Reservoir. 81.498.300;
1 Benbrook Reservoir, $3,500,000;
I Garza Little Elm Reservoir, $2,-
| 232.300; Grapevine Reservoir.
1 83400.000; Lavon Reservoir, $2.-
■ 604,300; tan Angelo Aecervotr
l and floodway, 883. MB AM: Tex-
I ankana Reservoir, $5,000,000;
■ Whitney Reservoir, $10,500,000.
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