The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 316, Ed. 2 Wednesday, May 2, 1951 Page: 7 of 32
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By ELTON C. FAY
Associated Press Military
Affairs Reporter
WASHINGTON, May 2.-Docu-
ments involved in the General
MacArthur firing case aren’t the
only ones in the military’s still
"secret" files
Those files contain some a cen-
tury old and still “secret.” They
date back before the Civil War and
run on up to the present.
The reasons for their still secret
classification are . many— including
the fact that no one now knows
why they were classified in the
first place and since then there has
been no request for their de-classi-
fication.
One file deals with the matter
of a lady friend of two Union gen-
erals in the Civil War. She was ar-
rested as a Confederate spy, then
released under an amnesty order
signed by President Lincoln.
Why do the documents on this
little footnote to history still bear
the red secret stamp? The De-
fense Department say their publi-
cation, even after these many
years, would “bring embarrass-
Ment to families of the deceased.”
ENGINEER SECRETS
Army Engineer office workers
■ay that somewhere in the files of
that office are records dating back
“long before” the Civil War, still
classified secret. It may be they
concern some then-new method of
bridge building, classified secret
and just never changed
The State Department has re-
leased only in recent- years docu-
ments concerned with events lead-
ing up and during World War 1.
The secret stamp on the official
report on operations of the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Force in Siber-
ia in 1919 wasn’t removed until last
year.
When Gen. Dwight D Eisenhow-
er became Army chief of staff
soon after World War II he set out
to make available a quantity of
military material on that war. He
named a board which made a stu-
dy of the documents. Some of the
material was released for publi-
cation. But a substantial part
wasn’t.
Why? Among the explanations
given at the Pentagon now is that
almost all of the European cam-
paigns and at least part of the
Pacific campaigns were conduct-
ed in joint operations with or at
least under joint planning by our
World War II allies. The United
States cannot, by itself, release
documents which concern other
friendly powers, like Britain.
REPORTS
For these reasons and probably
others, some of the original re-
ports dealing with some famous
Woodson Students
Win Meet Honors
Woodson High School students,
Abilene, won five first places, a
second and fourth ui the state in-
terscholastic league meet held at
Prairie View State A. & M Col-
lege.
World War II campaigns—the so-
called "operational" and "after-
action" reports of the generis who
planned and fought the battles-
are still secret. -
Occassionally (critics of the mili- Elijah Childress, first in shot put
tary say too often) the secret with 45 feet, 6 inches, and first in
stamp is used for reasons that
have no relation to military secu-
First place winners were
Maurice Gindratt. men's tennis
singles.
Bobby Parker and George Fork-
eway, men’s tennis doubles
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Three was the instance of Gen.
John J. Pershing’s funera. The
AEF chief of World War I was
critically ill several years before
his death. The Army got ready a
John J. Pershing’s furnial, in-
cluding even the uniform he was to
wear and the medals for the uni-
form.
Finally Peshing died one night.
Army public relations officials has-
tented to get ready the information
regarding funeral plans-only to
find they had to wait until the next
day. The plans bore a “secret”
stamp and couldn’t be used until
someone in high authority had
signed an order removing the clas-
sification.
discus throw with 147 feet
Joe Miller Metcalf, first, in male
solo.
Doctor Named
'Mom of 1951'
NEW YORK May 2 uh — A 17-
year-old doctor - known as the
"Grand Lady of the Blue Ridge"-
has been selected as the ' Ameri-
can Mother of 1951."
Dr Mary T Martin Sloop, of
Crossnore, S' C.. was named for
the honor Tuesday by the Ameri-
can Mothers Committee of the
Golden Rule Foundation, an or-
ganization devoted to the welfare
of mothers and children
Mack Gindratt placed second in
high jump with 6 feel. 1 inch and
Dorothy Dean was fourth in senior
declamation.
AHS Students’
Pictures Shown
Photographic work of 10 Abilene
High School students is on display
in the window of Camera, Inc.,
1124 North Second St.
The 27 large photographs on ex-
hibit represent work done by pho-
Wednesday Evening, May 2, 1951 The Abilene, Texas, Reporter-New* Page 5—-A
She practices medicine with her
country doctor husband. Dr. Eus-
face H. Sloop. Their two children
also are doctors in the same coun-
ty
Amarillo Husband
Confesses Slaying
Of Wife, Officers Say
AMARILLO. May 2. in — Puller
County officers claimed a break
today In the slaying of Mrs Mabel
Rachel Hulen, 40.
The officers described a state-
ment they said they had from Mrs
Hulen’s estranged husband as a
"full confession to the murder.”
Hulen. a former butcher, was ar-
raigned Tuesday night on charges
trial was set for Thursday morn-
ing.
Officers would not elaborate on
the reported statement which was
not witnessed by newsmen.
Mrs. Hulen’s battered body was
| found April 17 ta her Home here.
Hulen volunteered for lie detector
tests aher maintaining his inno-
cence through 17 hours of question-
Officers declined to say whether
the reported statement came as a
result of lie detector tests.
Earlier Texas rangers said
chemists found traces of human
blood on shoes, trousers, and a
three-foot length of pipe officers
of murdering his wife. Examining believed to bo the murder weapon.
In Statistical Group
Charles Brooks Crandall son of
Mr and Mrs A. L. Crandall. 1222
North Third St., is a new member
of the student branch of the Amer
ican Statistical. Association at the
University of Texas.
Crandall is a graduate student
la statistics
Grable Suspended
HOLLYWOOD, May 2. —Betty
Grable is under suspension for eight
weeks for refusing to act in a
comedy-musical film. A spokesman
said Miss Grable believes she does
not have enough time off between
pictures She recently completed a
film and the next one was due to
start this month
Carpenter’s Rites
At Snyder Today.
SNYDER May 2—Funeral for
Hiram Manuel Hedges, Snyder car-
penter, will be held at 3 pm. Wed- I
nesday at the Church of Christ
here with Minister Boyd Fanning
officiating
Burial in the Snyder Cemetery
tography students during 1950 un-
der direction of Miss Willie Floyd is to be under direction of Bolger
FOR 6 PROFS
ACC Schedules
Appreciation Day
Abilene Christian College has
named May 22 as Appreciation
Day, honoring five professors who
are retiring and one who is going
on limited duty.
Retiring are James F. Cox, R.
C. Ball, Charles H. Roberson, Mrs.
Ora McFarland and Mrs. Clara
Bishop.
Howard L. Schug of the Lan-
guage Department will teach part-
time next year.
Coach A. B. Morris, Appreciation
Day planning chairman, listed the
following events on the program:
a special chapel program honor-
ing the six teachers, an edition of
the Optimist (the school paper)
which will tell of the honorees'
lives, and an evening banquet
Each teacher will receive a
leather scroll inscribed with words
of appreciation.
English Girl Gels
U. S. Visit Anyway
SAN ANTONIO. May 2. * — A
pretty English girl who has had
trouble with immigration authori-
ties was due here today.
Josephine Palmer, who found in
mid-Atlantic that her visa had ex-
pired, was to visit her sister here
and, possibly, look around for a
job.
It seems Josephine may get to
stay in the United States for a
while, visa or no visa.
A shipping company representa-
tive signed a parole for the 26-
year-old girl pending outcome of
her appeal of an Immigration Serv-
ice decision against her entering
the U. S.
She arrived in Houston Saturday
night but was ordered to stay
aboard her ship, the SS Daleby,
by immigration agents.
After her release Tuesday, the
daughter of a Cardiff, Wales, fur-
niture manufacturer was taken on
a brief four of Houston.
Immigration authorities said it
would probably" be three or four
weeks" before she gets final action
on her appeal.
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Several of the pictures received
commendation in a national com-
petition of high school students.
Students whose work is being
displayed are Joe Scales, Gary
Smith, John R. Endsley, Jr., Bob
Smith, John David Kuykendall,
Frances Smith, B H. Wright, Pat
Bostie, Bobby Ann Sabin and Al-
len Gardner. .
Barnes Funeral Home.
Mr. Hedges, 73, died Monday aft-
er a heart attack. A native of
Grapevine, Tex., he had made his
home here many years.
Survivors include a son. Ray-
mond (Bushy) Hedges, and three
brothers, Ottoway Hedges of Abi-
lene. Charlie Hedges, of DeLeon
and Nobel Hedges ot Bangs.
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