The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 302, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 22, 1945 Page: 3 of 38
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Sunday Morning, April 22, 1945
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
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O By TEX EASLEY
WASHINGTON, April 21,—P
Tom Connally’s role in the creation
of a postwar world order became
even more important with the suc-
cession of Harry 8. Truman to the
residency.
The influence of the Texan
undoubtedly will be felt, not
alone because of his chairman-
ahip of the powerful Senate For-
eign relations committee and
his participation in the forth-
W coming San Francisco confere-
nce, but because of his close
personal relationship with Mr.
Roosevelt and Mr. Truman.
Only the day before Mr. Roose-
velt died, it was my privilege to in-
o mately observe the ties between
Mr Truman and Senator Connally.
At their invitation, I sat between
them in a ride from the Capitol
to the Willard hotel, where the
Senator spoke at a Rotary luncheon
Jefore practically all of the am-
bassadors and ministers to this
country.
The conversation was as free and
easy as that of old cronies baking
their feet before a fireplace. Some
of it was idle chatter, some very
% erious.
Mr. Truman mentioned that
he had just received a letter
from John Nance Garner. In
it the former vice president told
of his chickens and garden at
a his home in Uvalde.
The problem of absenteeism •
in the Senate worried Mr. Tru-
man. The subject came up in-
cidentally when Connally not-
ed that he would have been un-
A able to leave the Senate cham-
% ber and the fight over ratifica-
tion of the U. S.-Mexico water
treaty but for the fact that one
Senator had obtained the floor
to make a two-hour talk—on a
subject that had nothing to do
• with the treaty.
There ought to be some kind of
prohibition against Senators mak-
ing long-winded speeches that af-
fect only the people of one state,
or rather of concern to only a few
«eople, said Mr. Truman. It was
wonder that the chamber soon
empties and gallery spectators find
only a half dozen Senators on the
floor.
As vice president, Mr Truman
presided over the Senate, and felt a •
Gesponsibility.
Little did the modest, Mis-
sourian dream that M hours
later he was to become the na-
tion’s 32nd president. In fact,
he was playing second fiddle
s then to his old friend. Senator
Connally. When they walked
into the crowded ballroom the
orchestra struck up "The Eyes
of Texas." With no fanfare the
ANSON, April 21—(LPH)—Lt.
(g) and Mrs James Eudell Thur-
man arrived in Anson this week
from Ruidoso, New Mexico, where
they spent their honeymoon fol-
lowing their marriage in E Paso
Tuesday of last week
Lieutenant Thurman will report
to Coronado, Calif., by May 12 for
an assignment to amphibious or
landing craft. Mrs. Thurman will
accompany her husband as long as
he remains in the states.
Mrs. Thuman has been serving as
secretary to Byron England, assist-
ant superintendent of the El Paso
school system, and former teacher
in the Abilene high school.
Lieutenant Eudell is a 1940 grad-
uate of the Anson high school. He
and his wife are both 1943 grad-
dates of Texas Tech.
While in college Thurman volun-
teered in October 1M2 for the V-7
naval program, and was called to
active duty Aug 2, 1943 He enter-
ed midshipman's school in New
York where he was commissioned
as an ensign Nov 24, 1943. He was
able to spend three days at home
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs J. C.
Thurman of Corinth before he re-
ported in New Orleans.
He received his amphibious train-
ing on the West Coast, then had
12 months duty in the Pacific, serv-
ing as a gunnery officer on an LST
in the Marianas. He also was in the
campaign for Peleliu.
Thurman was promoted to his
rating of lieutenant (g.) on March
1, this year.
Odd Fellows to Observe 126th Anniversary
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Operator Resigns
BUFFALO GAF. April 21.-(pl.)
—Mrs. Weldon Gardner has resign-
ed as operator of the telephone
switchboard at Buffalo Gap and
Mrs Ted Welch la taking the place
made vacant by her resignation
Mr. and Mrs. Gardner and their
son, Clayton, are moving to Abi-
lene,
Members of local Odd Fellows
lodge No. 274, and Rebecca lodge
No. 89, will observe the 126th an-
niversary ot the founding of Odd
Fellows, with a special program here
Thursday night. March 26. E R
Blake, noble grand, had announced
B. A. Carter, San Angelo, grand
master of Texas will be principal
speaker.
Lodge members of Abilene area,
as well as the public, are invited to
attend. An appropriate program
will be presented at the local hall
at 161 1-2 Chestnut
In planning the observance, mem-
bers review the history of the or-
ganization which was founded in
Baltimore, Md. April 26. 1819. At
the beginning of the present war,
lodges were active in almost each
nation in the world. Texas lodges
founded and maintain one of the
largest orphanages in the world, lo-
cated in Corsicana, which la for
children of former lodge members.
They also maintain the Old Folks
home in Ennis.
Local lodge reporta an increase
in membership the past several
years. C E Tucker is vice grand
of Abilene lodge
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WHEN TRUMAN SPOKE IN HOME TOWN-Senator Tom
Connally of Texas congratulated Harry S. Truman at the lat-
ter’s home town, Lamar, Mo., when Truman was officially
informed of his nomination for vice-president. AP Corre-
spondent Tex Easley tells in this article of the close relation-
ship between President Truman and Connally, chairman of
the Senate foreign relations committee and'member of the
United States delegation to the United Nations conference in
San Francisco. Connally was the speaker at the notification
rally for Truman.
toastmaster later simply in-
troduced him as the vice presi-
e’dent.
■The principal address was made
by Senator Connally He discussed
world peace aims. It was a fine
speech, and Mr. Truman didn’t
■ hesitate to say so as we drove back
• the Capitol.
The tieup between Mr. Truman
and the Texan isn’t anything new.
Last summer before he was nom-
inated for the vice presidency. Mr.
Truman was guest of honor of the
Texas congressional luncheon.
was invited to tell congress-
men and their guests, at one of
the regular weekly luncheons in the
Speakers Dining room in the
House restaurant, of his work as
chairman of the Senate Defense In-
Gistigating committee.
Before going into that, however,
the diplomatic, smiling speaker got
himself on a friendly basis with all
Texans by telling of his high re-
Sard and affection for their state.
aHe ribbed Representative Ewing
Thomason about the time they were
in El Paso together. Five years ago
they were in Mexico and Panama
Inspecting military bases. Return-
ing Thomason boasted of the fine
gather they’d find in El Paso,
"Where sunshine spends the win-
ter.” They alighted in a snow-
sleet storm—the worst spell in El
Paso's history.
Turning then toward Connally,
Parents Receive
Letter From Son
Reported Missing
ALBANY, April 21.—<8pl >—Mr
and Mrs. J. L Castleberry, Albany,
received a telegram from the War
department Thursday morning noti-
fying them their son, Lt. Mack
Castleberry, was missing in action
in Germany since April 2. Friday
they received a letter from the of-
ficer, written April 6, stating he
was wounded and in a hospital in
France.
Lieutenant Castleberry, with the
Seventh Army, arrived in Southern
France Dec. 6, and waa soon in ac-
tion in Alease-Loraine, where he
Mr. Truman expressed his deep af-
fection for the Texas Senator, and
gratitude for the latter's help dur-
ing the 1940 political campaigns.
The speeches that Connally made
in Missouri for him probably were
responsible for his successful fight
for re-election to the Senate, he
said.
It was Connally who made the
notification speech in Truman's
hometown of Lamar, Mo . in which
the Misourian was officially in-
formed that he had been chosen to
run on the Democratic ticket with
Roosevelt
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was wounded last February. He
had recently written he was send-
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Inducted into the Army in 1943,
he received his commission from Ft.
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Louisiana. Castleberry is a nephew
of Mrs. L. H. Harrison, Abilene.
Wind No Bother to
Petite Pole Painter
MIDLAND. April 21.—Opl.)—She
was only about five feet tall and
wouldn't weigh 90 pounds “soaking
wet," but Mrs. Mattie Trogdon,
petite blonde painter, calmly climbed
to the top of the flagpole on the
Petroleum building and just as
calmly applied a coat of alumnium
paint to the ball on the tip of the
pole and then painted her way back
to the roof.
To West Texans there wasn’t
much wind blowing at the time,
only enough to keep the top swing-
ing in an arc which threatened to
toss her for 12 stories. She ap-
parently didn’t mind this too much,
as she was thinking of what she
was going to prepare for supper for
her four children.
"I may not be sitting on top of
the world, but I sure am on top of
Midland, " she yelled from the top
of the flagpole, just as an extra
strong puff of wind deposited a gob
ot paint on her face.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 302, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 22, 1945, newspaper, April 22, 1945; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1636432/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.