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"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES" — Byron
Associated Press (AP)
ABILENE. TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1948 —SIXTEEN PAGES
Police Kidnapers
Meekly Surrender
NEW ORLEANS, Sept T. un —
Two armed men, sought for the
slaying ef a New Orleans detective
and the abduction of the assistant
chief of detectives, were captured
today following a nightlong March,
state trooper Jeff Lockey said.
Lockey said the pair, who had
sworn they would never be taken
alive, meekly surrendered to a
Wate trooper and a village marshal
at a country store in Gonzales, La.,
about 68 miles northwest of here
on Highway 61.
Gonzales to a few miles from Ho-
bart, where the gunmen last night
released John J. Jackson, assistant
chief of New Orleans detectives,
after abducting him from police
headquarters here.
The officer-said State Trooper L.
E. Wright, Jr., and Town Marshal
ia "Red" Burke of Gonzales made
Mie arrest. No more details were
available immediately.
Police identified the pair as Dale
Simpson, 28, of Salt Lake City.
Utah, the alleged slayer of Detec-
tive Nicholas Jacob, and 23-year-
old H. E. Miller, a native of Monti-
cello, Miss
Stocky Assistant Chief of Detec-
tives John J. Jackson related early
today the events of the tense seven
hours he spent with the gunmen
driving over s maze of backwoods
roads.
Jacobs was slain yesterday morn-
ing as he and Detective Joseph
Tardo were returning to New Or-
leans with Miller and Simpson
from Gulfport, Miss., where Miller
had been arrested on a theft charge
sworn to by Simpson.
Miller and Simpson subsequently
hitchhiked to New Orleans, seized
Jackson and his car at police head-
quarters, and forced the detective
to aid in their getaway.
Jackson said Miller guarded Mm
closely during their long ride.
"He clicked that trigger back a
Blast Takes Life
Of Eastland Man
EASTLAND, Sept. 7. (RNS)- The blast, of unknown origin, blew
@harlie Jordon, about SO, died this
morning at 8:30 o’clock in the
, West Texas Clinic at Ranger of
Injuries received in an explosion
about 10 o'clock last night which
resulted in the partial burning of a
dm through the back door. The
lamily, now residing in the 1500
block on S. Bassett St., was to
The Lid’s Off!
home in the 1400 block of New"
Street, Eastland.
The house was vacated Monday
by Mrs. L. Y. Morris, and Jordan
entered the house by the back way
preparatory to moving in later.
have moved today.
Mr. Jordan had moved to East-
land- about a year ago, coming
from Carbon, where he had lived
all his life.
Survivors include the widow
and seven children. Funeral ar-
rangements are in charge of Ham-
mer Funeral Home.
"HE'S OUR FRIEND'-
Son of ‘Duke of Duval'
Explains Johnson's Vote
SAN DIEGO, Duval County,
Tex., Sept 7, (UP)—George Parr,
17-year-old multi - millionaire and
Gelf-styled rustic political bow of
18 Texas counties, explained today
why Ma domain favored Lyndon
Johnson for United States senator
giving him a 2 to 1 preference in
the runoff primary.
At his moorish-style palatial
home here, Parr told Houston
Press Reporter Ben Kaplan that
the 27th senatorial district support-
ed Johnson "because he to our
friend.",
a The official canvass showed 48.-
*255 for Johnson and 24.034 for Coke
Stevenson. The key county, Du-
val. went tor Congressman John-
son 4.822 to 40. In four previous
elections, this tier of South Texas
counties, composed of a sizable
percentage of Latin-American la-
borers, went for Stevenson.
SON OF ‘DUKE’
Parr, son of the fabulous Arch-
ie Parr, who wss better known as
MIES ON SOVIET SHIP-
Gen. Feng Yu Hsiang (above).
China’s "Christian General,"
died in an accidental fire
105 EVENING
FINAL
United Press (VP)
A TEXAS 244, NEWSPAPI
hundred times and I died a hun-
dred times," the assistant chief of
detectives related.
The warrant sworn to by Simp-
son charged Milter with taking 8450
in cash and a pistol while the two
were roommates at a downtown
New Orleans hotel last week.
Tardo said the pistol, with which
Jacobs was later shot in the neck,
was returned empty to Simpson
just before the quartet started on
the 90-mile trip hack to New Or-
leans.
. The surviving officer sstd Jacobs
was shot M they neared the out-
skirts of New Orleans and that as
he twisted in the driver's Mat he
saw the pistol in Simpson's hand.
He Mid he does not—know what
made Simpson turn on them.
After being forced to drive to a
lonely road where Jacob's body
was thrown into a cluster of bushes,
Tardo mansged to escape from the
ear.
The two gunmen, meanwhile, had
thumbed a ride on Highway 90 into
a New Orelans truck driver. Stay-
ton. ordered at gun point to drive
to Baton Rouge, suddenly swerved
into the police exit as'they passed
headquarters. He leaped from the
car as Miller and Simpson fired at
him but he found refuge behind a
group of palm trees.
Simpson and Miller then leaped
into Jackson's car, In which the
officer wm just leaving beadquar-
ters for lunch, and ordered him to
drive off.
Phone Strike
Set Sept. 17
CHICAGO, Sept 7. V—The CIO
Association of Communications
Equipment Workers today set Sept.
17 for a strike which it Mid would
cripple telephone service over the
nation.
Announcement of the strike date
the "Duke of Duval," admitted
that a district attorney's race in
Laredo had a lot to do with his
repudiation of former Gov. Steven-
son. '
“We supported Jimmy Cazen
for district attorney'in Laredo be-
cause Ke was our friend,” Perr
said. "There was a vacancy. Coke
could have appointed him, but he
didn't."
A short, affable man who nether
smokes nor drinks. Parr can be a
determined enemy of those who
cross him.
He wm certain, he told Ms In-
terviewer. that Stevenson's state-
ments concerning the bloc vote in
Duval County were not made with
good grace
BACKED COKE
"Has Coke ever personally ask-
ed me to support him in his prev-
ious campaigns? Yes. He has per-
sonally asked me to do this and
I did. I never heard a complaint
from him then about the bloc vote
in Duval County."
Bloc vote or not, said Parr, the
election in his county would stand
up under anybody's investigation.
"The Duval County runoff was
as clean an election as ever has
been held It will stand investiga-
tion by anybody and I invite in-
vestigation, for that matter,” he
said
Parr discounted the influence of
Ms political organization.
"Our concern to South Texas.
Half a million people live here,
but they don't have a single rep-
resentative on the Highway Com-
mission or the State School Board
or other state agencies We want
to get things done in South Tex-
Although he revealed plans for
a home in Corpus Christi, Parr
said his only motive was to ‘‘play”
in the Nueces County metropolis,
where the influence of his late
father was felt so strongly that a
street to named for him.
was made by Dan Harris, Port-
land. Ore., vice president of the
union. He said negotiations between
the union and the Western Electric
Manufacturing Company are dead-
locked
Harris said the strike would pull
out 25.000 members of the union
working in 2.300 Bad Telephone
Company locations in 43 of the 48
states.
Stassen to
Reply Tonight
By The Associated Press .
The presidential campaign
zipped into high gear today with
Harold E. Stassen ready to deliv-
er the official Republican reply to
President Truman's day - long
series of Labor Day addresses.
From early morning until late
last night. Mr. Truman hammered
away at Ms theme that an "era
of fear" and depression may re-
sult if Republican ‘reactionaries’
are elected in November.
Stassen will speak from Detroit
at 7 p.m.. Central Standard Time
tonight over the same NBC net-
work that carried the President’s
kick-off speech from that motor
city.
Gov Thomas E. Dewey already
has given Ms blessing to Stassen's
address as the result of a confer-
ence the two held at Albany last
week.
Dewey, who beat out the former
Minnesota governors for the Re-
publican presidential nomination,
said the speech will be "of major
interest to the American people.”
Although his off-the-cuff utter-
ances across Michigan and Into
Ohio covered a wide range of sub-
jects, Mr. Truman aimed most
frequently at his labor hearers.
He told a Pontiac audience that
union members had better get out
and vote Democratic because:
“This election makes a lot of
difference to you. Among other
things, it might make the differ-
ence between whether you have a
job two years from new or not."
That waa after his main speech
at Detroit in which the President
declared:
"If you let Republican reaction-
aries get complete control of the
government, I would fear not only
for the wages and living standards
of the American working man, but
even for our democratic institu-
tions of free labor and free enter-
prise” •
Wich fa Falls Man
Geks Jester Backing
As Damp Kevpoler
AUSTIN. Sept. 1. Oh—Gov Beau-
ford H Jester today reported that
The five states where the union
does not operate are Maine. New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu-
setts and Montana.
Harris said the dispute Is over
wages and working conditions. The
union is demanding a 15 cents an
hour increase across the board
The company, he said, has stood
pat on its offer of eight cents.
Wages of union members now
range from 88 cents to $1.54 an
hour.
Negotiations have been going on
intermittently since May 11, Harris
reported. Union members approv-
ed a strike to enforce their de-
mands on July I, he said.
C. C McDonald. Wichita Falls at-
torney, has been suggested as tem-
porary chairman of the state Demo-
cratic convention to be held next
Tuesday in Fort Worth
Robert W. Claveri and Vann M.
Kennedy, chairman and secretary
respectively of the State Democra-
tic Executive Committe. reported
McDonald's name to him last night.
Jester said.
He Mid McDonald's nomination
M temporary convention chairman
by the executive committee has
been urged by J D Dickson of
Seymour and Cliff Deaton of Wichi-
ta Falls, committee members
Ves
Magistral
Readies Bias
oviet Zone Riots
strat !
27 Policemen
Evade Reds
In City Hall
BERLIN, Sept. T. (UP)--The
Berlin commandants af the three
western powers are drafting a let-
ter to Maj. Gen. Alexander Koti-
kov. Russian chief here, demand-
ing an explanation of Soviet "in-
ability to preserve order” in the
Russian sector, it was reported to-
day. - t
Well-informed American sources
said the letter registering the form-
al protest of the Western powers :
against the rioting, yesterday at the
COMMUNISTS SMASH WAY INTO BERLIN CITY HALL — Communist-led demon-
strators smash their way into Berlin’s city ha'l Sept. 6 during a demonstration to keep the
Berlin City Council from meeting. Soviet-controlled police made no attempt to halt the
demonstration, the third of its kind in ten days. (AP Wirephoto via radio from. Berlin)
RAPS U.S. MILITARISM •
Rebel Huk Leader Calls
Russia Ally of Filipinos
ITU Denies Violation
Of Federal Injunction
WASHINGTON, Sept 7. Un.—The
International Typographical Union
today denied a government charge
that It violated a federal court in-
junction by attempting to negotiate
union security contracts with news-
paper publishers.
The injunction, granted by Judge
Luther M. Swygert in Indianapolis
last March 27, forbid the union from
insisting on closed shop conditions.
The Taft-Hartley act outlaws the
closed shop by which only union
members may be employed
The union filed ita answer in fed-
eral court in Indianapolis today. It
replied to a petition of General
Counsel Robert N. Denham of the
National Labor Relations Board that
the union should ba cited for con-
tempt of the injunction.
‘ THE WEATHER
MANILA, Sept. T. (n—Hukbala-
hap Leader Lula Taruc, admitted
Communist whose followers failed
to meet the terms of an amnesty
agreement they made with the
government. today proclaimed
Russia as “the ally" of Filipinos.
From his hideout in Central Lu-
zon. the guerrilla leader wrote a
letter to the English-language Man-
ila Times urging peasants to sup-
port Soviet policy in Asia. He as-
sailed the United States for what he
called "rebuilding Japan while our
people starve.’
(This marks a complete reversal
of expression by the slender,
elusive leader of some 5.000 ragged
but well-armed outlaws in Central
Luzon.. Two years ago, he, waa
praising the United States and disa-
vowing any Communist affiliation
or connection with Moscow. 1
Taruc wrote the newspaper that,
should war break out between Rus-
sia and the United States. "I do
not think that to be a true Filipino
I must lay down my life for Ameri-
can bases and for the right of
American imperialism to exploit
my people
"Any bombing or invasion of our
soil by the Russians would not be
in act against the Filipino people.
but against American mill’arists."
The government,' trying to
restore order in the turbulent cen-
tral provinces, recently extended
amnesty to Taruc and Ma follow-
ers. and dropped sedition charges
against Taruc. The Aug 13 dead-
line expired without the Huks sur-
rendering their weapons.
Fighting has broken out sub-
sequently. with a loss of at least
101 lives.
Accidental Death
Toll Nearly 400
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The nation's accidental death toll
during the long Labor Day holiday
approached 400 today. The reported
total w as 303 and etill Incomplete
Traffic deaths numbered 281 from
• p m 'local time) Friday until
midnight Monday to exceed the
national safety council's estimate of
260 highway deaths for the period.
Fifty-nine persons were drowned,
and 53 others lost their lives in a
variety of other type accidents.
U. 8. DFRANTMENTOKLSOMMERCE
ABILENE AND VICINITY: Fair to part-
ly cloudy this afternoon land Wednesday
High today 101. low tonight 75. High Wed.
nesday 100. High and low for the last 24
hours, 105 and T3
#A== OF PALESTINE WAR UNLIKELY
mately 70,000 fighting men and
OBSERVER SAYS RENEWAL
WEST TEXAS: Fair this afterno
night and Wednesday. Not NO WA--
PIWTAER" enernoon NELS *
TEMPERATURES
Taes. Men. HOUR Mon. Sum.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Daniel
De Luce, veteran Associated
Press correspondent now in
the Middle East, has viewed
the Jewish-Arab warfare from
both sides in this dispatch he
assesses the Palestine situation
so as it exists today?
By DANIEL de LUCE
as JERUSALEM Sept 7 W—Israel
to dancing to the victory march
NOT REDS' ANYMORE
20,000 U.S. Soldiers Battle Each
Other id Big German Mock Fight
or reading at 12:30 p.m.: 28.01. while the Arsb states sit glumly
humidi, * 12:30 Pm.: * Per on the mourner's bench.
The Arabs seem dazed by their
strategic reverses, appalled that
500 000 or more of their brethren
have become penniless refugees
and baffled as to how to cut their
losses.
The best guess among key poli-
I ticians is that official war, despite
current grumbling, will not go Into
a thrid round.
The chancea for an early Pales-
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany.
Sept 7. (P)—Some 20,000 American
soldiers rolled out of their tents
at dawn today and deployed
through rough mountain terrain in
the biggest mock battle since the
real thing ended.
Thousands of jeeps, weapon car-
aboard the Russian motorship
Pobeda near the end of a voy-
age from New York to Odessa,
it has been announced in Mos-I riers and tanks rolled from this
cow. His daughter also died in reservation soon after sun-up on the
the fire which resulted from first maneuver on a grand scale
careless handling of a movie ever planned by American armed
Gilm, Moscow reported. The
former war lord was 67. (AP
Wirephoto)
DEATHLESS DAYS
IN ABILENE TRAFFIC
1 Yr., 86 Days
forces In Germany
While the generals insisted there
there wM no political significance,
some cognizance of the tense world
situation was taken.
For example, the Army for the
worn system of calling two teams
In any maneuver the "Reds" and
“Blues ”
In the exercise, to last two
weeks. It was decided to have an
"Aggressor Force" and a defender
to be known as "U 8 Armed Forc-
es." This wM done, it was explain-
ed. so that the people would not
think the “Reds” meant Soviet
Russians.
In the “Aggressor Force” was
the U S constabulary-police force
of occupied Germany—plus about
two dozen fighters, bombers and
some tonka.
The "defenders" were essential
parts of the only division the U. S.
has in Europe-the First Infantry.
Every gun was loaded with blank
ammunition By Thursday morn-
ing. after a day and a half of tacti-
cal tricks, It should be established
by special umpires whether the
aggressor has punched a good bole
or the defender has beaten off the
attack.
Actually, the aim of the whole
job is to show whether the First Di-
fight to such a bulwark as the tine, peace are described as hing-
Rhine River? | ing on the answers to two ques-
The division involved in the tions: _ L . .
phony fight is the same First Infan- Will Egypt, which wants Gaza,
try that chewed through North Afri- end Trans-Jordan which covets
ca Sicily, France and Germany. In- I much of Arab Palestine, harmonize
steed of the stubble-bearded vet- their ambitions? Together they
erans of those days, however, now could swing the seven-state Arab
there are pink-cheeked 18-year-olds League into a settlement
In the front lines Will Israel modify ita ever-grow.
Overseeing the whole job to Lt. ing claims? Just now they include
Gen. Clarence R Huebner, armor- all territory conquered by Israeli
ed warfare expert, who ranks sec- | groups besides all territory allocat-
ond to Gen Lucius D. Clay, Amer- | ed under the United Nations parti-
ican military governor. In Ger- tion decision of last November,
many. ' The Israelis want to bar per-
Tied In with tie whole maneuver manently hundreds of thousands of
Arab DP’s from returning to their
Is a British batallion of 1,000 para-
troopers. none of whom ever made
a jump in action They came from
Palestine eager to jump, but the
chances are they will be deprived
ancestral homes, some of which
now are being demolished.
Israel's story is a story of total
war effort. Top Arab leaders have
confessed, bitterly but privately.
of that opportunity in this ever- confessed, bitterly but privately,
else. It is purely a ground forces that they could learn a lesson from
test. - . the Jews
vision can function as a unit
The problem being simulated is
simply this: Can a division hold ____
back an attacker eR the way from ering the assault of an American Arab states in May was lean than
the hills of Franconia in a delaying Negro batalion.
The British are assigned to cov-
The total invasion force from five
30,000. Israel mobilized approxi-
JAP GIRLS LOOK
FOR PICKPOCKETS
• TOKYO, Sept. 7. W—The
metropolitan police force de-
clared war on the increasing
activity of pickpockets today
and formed a supersecret de-
tail of eight women officers to
spearhead the attack.
Headquarters explained it
hoped the girto would escape
” swd gentry since they were
all beauties, but with plain
faces.”
Schools Open
Tomorrow
The ringing of Abilene’s school
bells tomorrow will signal the close
of the' summer's vacation.
Supt. Nat Williams said today
that all school children in the city
should report to their respective
Berlin city hall in the Soviet sector
will point out that the "first duty
of an occupying power" is to keep
order.
News of the protest came M Ger-
man Communist leaders here an-
nounced they had broken complete-
ly with the Western sector German
administration, thus formally cut-
ting Berlin in two.
The Socialist Unity (Communist)
Party will have no part of the legal
city administration which moved
to the British sector last night af-
ter Communist mobs, stormed the
city hall, the party leadership an- •
nounced
Karl Lithe, leader of the Com-
munist minority in the city as-
sembly. proclaimed the formal par.
tition of Berlin at a press confer-
ence attended by 150 allied and
German newsmen.
"The city assembly has proved
itself worthless and ineffective."
Litke said. "The SED (Socialist
Unity) Party will have no further
participation If the assembly stays
in the West sectors."
He charged that there could be
no effective administration of Ber-
lin with the government situated
outside the city hall and outaide
the Soviet sector.
The assembly was in effect
chased from the city hall in the
Russian sector yesterday Commu-
nist rioters stormed the hall,
smashed down doors, blocked a
West sector German police detailed
scheduled meeting of the assembly,
to guard the meeting.
Western commanders conferred
an ways of freeing 27 German po-
lice still virtual captives in the
city hall
A French liaison officer who la
schools at 8:30 a. m. Wednesday.
Students in the elementary ________. ___
schools will be permitted to return was threatened with death by an
home immediately after registra-
tion, he said. High school students
will be held longer for the issu-
ance of lockers, schedule cards,
ete., he said.
Williams said the cafeterias in
protecting the 27 German police of
the Western tone in the city hall
unidentified telephone caller aa the
Western powers studied their next
step.
women, of whom more than 20,000
had training in the British army.
Egyptian troops entered Pales-
tine under orders to proceed
cautiously and avoid risks It was
feared that even a small setback
might prejudice Egypt's more Im-
portant objectives— British evacua-
tion of the Suez Canal Zone and
Egyptian control of the Sudan
The Trans-Jordan Legion took up
positions In Central Palestine in
which its officers were briefed to
consider a political gesture leading
to Arab-Zionist negotiations
It was sn ironies! experience to
be with the Arab forces at the front
and bear of diatant boasts that a
crescent of steel was being forged +
around Tel Aviv. The Legion waged
only a holding action at Latrun.
Thy projected joint flank of Egypt!
and Trans-Jordan forces southeast
of Tel Aviv always hung naked la
the air.
When the Arabs started their
campalga their chief • advantage
was Spitfires and 25-pounders. Is-
rael had neither. But Arab air-
power was frittered away. In street
fighting, the Israeli forces made
mortars and Sten guns count a lot.
As time went on, Israel got badly
needed artillery and warplanes de-
an international underground de-
livery system which worked, truce
or no truce.
The illiterate Arsb troops never
matched the beachhead philosophy
of the Jews’ "No retreat."
In July, when the Arab states re-
fused to continue the original truce,
B British 'diplomat literally held
bis bead in his hands.
"They're mad!” he declared.
' ‘They won't listen to their friends.
They don’t have the mind or means
to make war, but here they go
again. More war! There won't be
an Arab left in Palestine They'll
lose everything. They’ve had it.”
the junior and senior high schools
will not be opened until the build-
ings are completed. They will be
open, however, at Travis, Central,
Lamar, Locust and Woodson 'col-
ored' schools.
He estimated that it will be ap-
proximately 30 days before the caf-
eteria at the north Junior High
School to completed: about six
weeks at the high school and two
months before the cafeteria will
be ready at the South Junior High
School.
Williams said the school sys-
tem's teaching staff Is complete.
Including two new principals, R. M.
Hix. Central Elementary School,
and Escoe L. Webb, North Jun-
ior High School
The teachers met at 18 a. m.
today for an organisational meet-
ing. Williams said.
The three Western military gov-
ernors. Gen Lucius D. Clay, Unit-
ed States. Gen. Sir Brian Robert-
son, Britain, and Gen Pierre Koe-
nig. France, met briefly. Then they
went into their seventh conference
on the Berlin blockade with their
Russian counterpart. Marshal Vas-
ally D. Sokolovsky.
The Russians served notice at
the four-power Berlin Air Safety
Center that Soviet planes will hold—
maneuvers over the Berlin area
and the Russian zone during the
week ending Sept. 14.
An American official said it la
not kitown how extensive the man-
euvers will be "but the Implication
Is that there will be more than
normal activity" Since the Rus-
sians blockaded the land appro-
aches to Berlin in late June, the
U.S. and Britain have been supply-
ing Western sectors of the city by
air
Give Kids a Brake' Is Theme
Of September Safety Campaign
The Safety Committee of Abi-
lene Chamber of Commerce today
voted to co-operate with the Na-
tional Safety Council in ita "Give
the Kids a Brake” campaign for
September.
Bill Braymer, chairman of the
committee, urged that all Abilen-
lans drive safely especially la vi-
cinity of the schools
‘School opens here tomorrow."
Braymer Mid "and figures show
| that many accidents le which chil-
I dren are hit by autos occur near
I schools.”
"In fact, one child out of every
three that dies in the United
States, to killed in a traffic ac-
cident" Braymer continued "In
1946 there were 1.800 fatalities and
55,000 injuries to children under
five years of age There were 2,-
600 deaths and 143.000 injuries to
children between five and 14. And
almost two-thirds of these were
struck while they were pedes-
trians "
Braymer pointed to the fact
that about half of the children in
the 3-14 age group were struck
while crossing la the middle of a
block or while running from be-
hind s parked car.
“This should lead all of us to
caution our children to cross only
at street intersections after look-
ing in every direction, and to re-
mind ourselves to be careful thile
driving." the committee head said.
Safety patrols have been set up
again for the city schools, the
committee was told. They will be
sponsored again this year by
the various civic clubs of the city.
“We are glad to join the Na-
tional Council in its campaign,”
Braymer said. “It ties In. too,
with the proclamation issued yes
terday by Governor Jester which
sets aside September M Child
Safety Month If all driver* to
Abilene will be brake conscious
and give the kids a break by apply-
ing the brake, we can keep osar
excellent safety record going."
Storms Kill 50 ~
ROME Sept. 7. (UP)—Fifty per-
sons were dead and 38 missing to- ,
day in week end storms that cent
tered to the rich northern farming
regions of Italy.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 31, Ed. 2 Tuesday, September 7, 1948, newspaper, September 7, 1948; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1645664/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.