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, June 9, 1953
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Associated Press (AP) ABILENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1953 —EIGHTEEN PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
BUT IT DOES SAVE LIVES
Wary Lawmakers See More
Red Trickery in Armistice
WASHINGTON V — Congress
members, wary of possible Com-
munist trickery balanced liabilities
against assets today and found
little beyond the paramount saving
of lives to approve in a Korean
truce.
Without notable exception the
lawmakers expressed hope thst the
Republic of Korea government will
accept an armistice and avoid
what some of them said otherwise
could become a dangerous situa-
tion lor American troops on the
battle line.
Unanimously, legislators who
commented were happy that the
shooting seems likely to atop with-
in a few days.
But there was evident dissatis-
faction wit hthe truce terms, mixed
with a realization among the legis-
lators that a cease-fire will bring
little, If any, decline in American
expenditures and will offer no solu-
tion to pressing Asiatic political
problems.
Senators Ferguson (R-Mich) and
Maybank (D-SC) joined in throw-
ing doubt on the possibility of
making any material savings ss a
result of cessation of the fighting
The two, both members of the
Senate Appropriations Committee,
GEN. NAM IL, GEN. HARRISON
... chief truce negotiators
Staffs Work Out
Details of Truce
PANMUNJOM i—Staff officers
worked today on final details of a
, Korean armistice as hundreds of
1 •< thousands of South Koreans dem-
1 * onstrated violently against the im-
I pending truce that w.’l leave their
nation divided.
Even es Koreans surged wildly
through the streets of Seoul, Allied
snd Communist teams met in the
tiny truce but at Panmunjom for
12 minutes amid increasing signs
I that an armistice may be signed
I within the week.
Although an Allied spokesman
gave no hint of what took place in
the kut. the briefings of the meet-
ing indicated that only finishing
touches remained before a cease-
fire agreement was reached, -
Lower level officers assembled
after the plenary session—possibly
to iron out the wording of the docu-
ment foet would call a bait to the
bloody three-year-old war.
The Reds asked the recess ta
the plenary session and another
meeting was set for 11 a.m.
Wednesday (8 p.m. Tuesday CST).
said in separate interviews they
expect immediate requests for
U. S. economic aid in Korea to
eat up moat of the economies that
might accrue from halted military
operations.
Costs to Be High
Ferguson said the situation will
have to be surveyed to find out
how much prompt rehabilitation
can be undertaken in line with
President Eisenhower’s promise to
South Korean President Syngman
Rhee that the U. S. will continue
economic aid to restore Rhee’s
devastated land.
“South Korea largely has an ag-
ricultural economy and there to a
limit on what can be spent in a
short space of time," Fergusoe ob-
served.
Maybank said rehabilitation
costs are likely tv be high. The
pending Mutual Security Adminis-
tration bill would provide 111 mil-
lton dollars for rehabilitation on
the limited scale possible while the
fighting still was going on.
There have been no official esti-
mates made on aid costs in a truce
period, but lawmakers believe any
peacetime restoration of South Ko-
rea would involve expenditures of
billions.
Military Down Some
Military coats may come down
by an amount represented in actu-
al war operation costa, but Chair-
man Bridges (R-NH) of the ap-
propriations committee said he
does not foresee any appreciable
cut in armed services spending.
Ferguson estimated savings might
be 1% to 2 MUions in the next
year.
Maybank said a full complement
of American troops would hove to
be left in Korea because no one
could guess whether the Commu-
nists might decide to attack again.
"We can’t reduce our military
power," he Mid. “M was only be-
cause of it and our possession of
the atomic bomb that we got a
truce at all."
Chairman Wiley (R-Wis) of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee found little that pleased him in
the truce terms, although he said
S. military negotiators “con-
tend that the assets do indeed out-
weigh the deMs and that this was
the best truce that could be ar-
ranged under the difficult cireum-
"he said mane-mesrures of the
truce “very obviously, lend them-
selves to Communists.” Comment-
ing that the U. S. will honor its
agreements, he added:
"But the entire Communist rec-
ord proves that a Communist will
honor an agreement only so long
M be feels it to Ms advantage to
do so and that, thereafter, he will
break the agreement with utter
EVENING
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
128 Dead, 750 Injured
In Midwest Tornadoes
Heat to Keep
Grip on City
Hot weather cao he expected to
linger in the Abilene vicintity for
at least the next two days.
Weatherman C. E Sitchler said
Tuesday morning.
A high of 100 degrees was fore-
east for both Tuesday and Wed-
nesday with fair and hot” weath-
er continuing through Thursday
The mercury “got stuck” near
the top of the thermometer Mon-
day afternoon, staying at or above
the 100-degree mark for about four
hours.
Monday’s high of 101 equalled
the second high reading of the
year, first recorded on May It.
The year's high was the 104 on
Mey 22. The fourth Ito or higher
reading of the year was the even
100 of May 23 '
Hot weather prevailed over most
In Seoul, meanwhile, crowds es-
timated by some authorities as, -----------------
large ns 500,000 stormed through disregard for his contractual obli-
the streets of the war-devastated gations."
South Korean capital. : The South Korean ambassador.
While the demonstrations raged. You Ccayeetod:newa con
defiant South Korean President
Syngman Rhee assembled with his
The South Korean ambassador.
of Texas Monday with a sizzling
111 st Presidio. Other high read-
ings were Childress, 107; Wink. 105;
Del Rio and Cotulla, IM: Ama-
rillo. Big Spring, Laredo, Wichita
Falls and Lubbock, 102; Midland,
101: San Angelo: Mineral Wells
and Junction, 100.
generals behind closed doors.
The meeting followed one with
Gen. Maxwell Taylor, U. B Eighth
Army commander and the South
Korean Cabinet.
A spokesman Mid the Cabinet
and national assemblymen who at-
tended the session reaffirmed their
decision to ignore an armistice
based as the May 25 U. N. pro-
posal, continue the war, and fight
Indian troops if they land in Korea.
The South Korean National As-
sembly was to hear a recommen-
dation that it declare war on In-
dian troops if they come into Ko-
rea to guard prisoners after an
armistice.
India, under the prisoner ex-
change agreement signed Monday,
will provide troops — probably
about 5,000 to handle the POWs.
ference late yesterday that “up to
this minute” his country was de-
termined to fight on alone, rather
than accept a truce which would
leave Korea divided.
Ha acknowledged that this posi-
tion was "possibly subject to
change," although there had been
no sign of any change early today.
Boy Recovering
From Gun Wound
TODAY’S MARKETS
NEW YORK (A—A slight major-
ity of shares were fractionally low-
er as the stock market opened to-
Making sman gains were Ana-
conda. New York Central. St.
Louis - San Francisco and West-
inghouse.
Michael Lee Ragsdale, 9, who
wee accidentally shot to the right
thigh with a 22 calibre rifle Mon-
day, was reported "Improved"
Tuesday morning after undergoing
surgery Monday night He to at
Hendrick Memorial Hospital
The youngster’s condition was
reported M “critical” before the
operation, in which foe bullet was
removed and damage to a pas-
sageway leading to his bladder
was repaired.
Young Ragsdale where mother
and step-father, Mr. and Mro J
D Snodgrass, live at 2402 Palm
St., was accidentally shot by his
cousin, Dicky Morris of Merkel
Police Detective Captain W. B.
McDonald said the two boys were
atone st the house at the time of
the shooting Detective V. E. can
assisted to the investigation.
House Panel OKs
Reciprocal Trade
WASHINGTON A — The House
Ways and Means Committee ap
proved today a one year extension
of the reciprocal trade act beyond
June 11 as urged by President El-
lems for one year, and also would
add a seventh member to the tar-
iff commission, to effect giving
Republicans a 4-» majority.
The administration says it plans
no new trade agreements. But Ei-
higher tariffs and import quotas,
against competition from cheaper
foreign imports.
The vote was 23 to 2 for a com-
promise version of the trade act
which represents a victory for the
administration.
The bill extends for one year
Eisenhower’s authority to lower
tariffs on foreign goods coming
into the U. S. in return for trade
concessions by other nations.
The President called for the ex-
tension two months ago, but the
measure had been stalled for
weeks to the committee by Repub-
lieans seeking to increase trade
restrictions rather than lessen
them.
The bill as approved would
create a special 17-man commis- ,-------„-----
sion to study tariff and trade prob, for American industry, through Jartty.
senhower urged an extension of the
authority, as a symbol of his for-
eign policy goal of promoting free
world trade. The administration
said D. S. allies abroad would con-
sider failure to renew the act as a
return to isolationism.
The President’s request ran
squarely into a drive by some key
House Republicans, led by Ways
and Means Chairman Daniel Reed
(R-NY) and’ Rep Richard M.
Simpson (R-Pa), to tighten rather
than ease trade restrictions
" Simpson originally sponsored an
extension of the present act which
aloe included a series of broad new
provisions to increase protection
Under the compromise, Simpson
agreed to sponsor an extension of
the present act and put the more
restrictive provisions of his bill in
a separate act. House leaders
planned to push the extension,
while probably sidetracking the
other proposals.
The extension Mil would create
a 17-man commission of Congress
members and White House appoint-
ees to study tariff and trade policy
In effect, permanent answers to
the politically explosive tariff is-
sue would be postponed for a year,
pending the study Eisenhower
asked..
The bill would also odd e seventh
member to the Tariff Commission,
thus giving Republicans a €3 ma-
Lower Italian
House Results -
Still in Doubt
ROME un — A government
spokesman claimed today that
Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Cen-
ter Coalition had won absolute ma-
jorities in both Senate and Cham-
ber.
Interior Minister Mario Scelba,
a Christian Democrat, confirmed
that the coalition of four parties
had won more than halt of the
Senate, but declined to My what
the result would be in the cham-
ber of deputies, the more impor-
tant lower house.
The electoral office was still
compiling a record vote of 93.78
per cent of the eligible voters in
the Sunday and Monday election,
the first since 1948. The results
will determine whether the same
coalition which has kept Italy in
the pro-Western camp the last
seven years will continue to rule.
Premier Alcide de Gasperi's
NATO-allied center coslition ap-
peared certain to emerge as Italy's
strongest faction, but steady Com-
munist strength and the sky-rocket-
ing extreme right wing of Monarch-
ists and Fasciola threatened to
leave the parliamentary balance of
power with a half-dozen minor and
splinter parties lined up with
neither the government nor the
opposition. _
Senate an Indication
With senatorial votes being
counted ahead of those tor the
more important Chamber of Depu-
ties, the final outcome appeared
likely to remain in doubt until
at tally was watered closely as a
indication af how the government
would fare finally
The total of 28,386,610 votes east
was enormous, almost M per cent
of the electorate. 11 was probably
the heaviest percentage turnout in
the history of modem democratic
elections.
These were the results this morn-
tag to 16.667,238 of the 26,280,000
votes esst in the senatorial con-
tests (more than two million others
voted for the lower chamber be-
cause the ege requirement, 21, was
four years lower than for senatorial
ballots):
Government center bloc: total 8,-
099,516, with the Premier’s Chris-
tian Democrats getting 6,656,284,
the Moderate Socialists 821,174,
Liberals 470,924 and Republicans
131.134
Reds: I Million
Communist and left-wing oppost-
tion: total 5,791,455, with Commu-
nists 3,903,563, pro-Red Socialists
1,887,892.
Right-wing opposition: total 2,-
191,226, with Monarchists 1,160,640,
Fascist MSI (Italian aerial Move
ment) 1,030,586.
Minor parties: 585,041,
Baird Man
Dies Suddenly
BAIRD, June 9.—James Buford
Tyson, 34. resident of Baird since
1935, died suddenly at his home
Monday at 11:50 s a. of a heart
attack. He had not Won ■ and
had worked at his job at the AAA
Office Monday.
Mr. Tyson was torn Jan. 22, 1899,
a Rising Star, and had operated
a grocery store at Oplin before
coming to Baird
He to survived by Ms wife, Mrs.
Elda Rylee Tyson; two daugh-
ters, Joyce Tyson of Midland and
Melba Jean Tyson of Baird: one
son, James Bytoe Tyson of Baird;
three sisters, Mrs. Ethel Steven-
son and Mrs. Grace Vaught of
Baird and Mrs. Mary Mae Clus-
key of Midland; and one brother,
Euell Tyson of Baird.
Funeral arrangements are pend-
ng. Wylie Funeral Home at Baird
will be in charge.
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Defense SecretmryCharles E. Wilson, right, and his chief
aide, Roger Kyes, check facts and figures before appearing
at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
At Least 102
Killed in Flint
FLINT, Mich (—Six tornadoes,
their Mach - clouded funnels
desling multi - million dollar dee
struction, ripped through Michigan
and Ohio last night, killing 128 snd
injuring 750.
The most deadly of the shrieking
windstorms flung full force against
Flint, s heavily industrialized city
of 143,000 about 70 miles north of
Detroit. In Flint alone at least 102
persons were killed.
Forty houses in one Flint street
were flattened Many mangled
bodies were found today to the
wreckage of homes.
The tornadoes shot the nation's
spring twister toll to 358 dead. Ala-
bama, Texas and Oklahoma have
been Mt hard recently.
The new tornado struck Michi-
gan while the state was still clean-
Ing up the May 21 twister that
whirled through Port Huron.
Approval of Air Force
Cuts Seen by Ferguson
WASHINGTON <« - Sen Fergu-
son (R-Mich) predicted today that
a cease-fire in Korea would put
the squeeze on Congress members
who contend President Eisenhow-
er’s budget for the Air Force has
been cut too sharply.
But at the cento time. Ferguson
cautioned that the nation “ must not
rity” by a cease-fire, which Lesms
likely within a few days. Basic
long-range defense planning, be
said la an interview, must not be
changed.
In advance of further testimony
today on the Air Force budget by
Secretary of Defense Wilson, Fer-
fuson said he foresaw possible sav-
ings of between 1% and 2 Millon
dollars for such Korean War items
M ammunition, troop rotation and
the cost of combat flights
Ferguson is chairman of a Sen-
ate appropriations subcommittee
now in the midst of public hearings
over the controversial five Mitton
dollar cutback and a reduced 120-
wing Air Force goal by 1955.
He sold senators, most of them
Democrats, who are Insisting on re-
instatement ofthe 143-wing goal
by 1955 proposed by the Truman
administration are in a “very
much weaker position” now that a
Korean cease-fire seems imminent
Wilson told the subcommittee
yesterday the Eisenhower Air
Force program would guarantee
the notion what he said it already
bee—“the boat Air Force" in the
world Gen Hoyt S Vandenberg,
outgoing Air Force chief of staff,
told the subcommittee lost week
the cutbecks would mean the U. S.
would have a “second-best” Air
Force.
Two Democrats ta the vea of the
fight to restore at least part of the
money chopped out of the Truman
budget said a Korean truce would
ta no way change their position
Sen. Hill (D-Ala) said: "Even If
an armistice is signed, it would be
e great mistake to let up on our
preparedness program.”
He Mid he was “not impressed”
with Wilson’s testimony yesterday
355 Persons Killed
In Storms This Year
By The Associated Press
Minnesota 1: Mississippi 2; North
Dakota 4 Ohio 1: South Dakota
Tornadoes have killed an esti- I-------------
mated 155 persons and caused 1; Tennessee 5; Wisconsin 1; end
property damage of I* million dol- Wyoming I.
Inn to for United States this ----------------------------------
spring The toll includes an esti-nag . A
mated 128 killed Monday night ta Wlamane
Michigan and Onto. WOiTidil S Dull
The twisters have struck heav- "" rereun
lest in the South, Southwest and . n
Central sections.
Alabama Texas and Oklahoma DEdIII eO
have been the most frequently hit esEN men owe
with Trees suffering the biggest .
loss, both in life and property.
More than 130 tornadoes have been ACCICEITa!
reported this spring. AIWIutSs
Fifteen tornadoes have swept
Texas areas with 141 persons
killed and property damage esti-
mated at $61,300,00. The storms
that swept the Waco area took 111
lives.
Oklahoma also has been Ml by
15 twisters but only five persons
were killed and property damage
was around $200,000.
In Alabama. 25 tornadoes caused
an estimated four million dollars
damage and killed 11 persons
Sixteen persons bow died in
Nebraska ta e dozen tornadoes
this spring, including 11 over the
weekend. Twenty-one have been
killed by nine tornadoes in Geor-
gia.
Other states Mt by tornadoes in-
elude Arkansas 8, Florida 7: Illi-
nois 3; Indiana I: Iowa 3: Kansas
1: Louisiana 9, Michigan 2;
and that the secretary “failed to
meet the issue” whether “we need
the 143 wings to meet the threat
and danger of the Russian Air
Force.”
Sen. Maybank (D-SC) said be
wm "fearful" some senators might
propose "that cuts be made to the
whole."
Ferguson said that if a truce is
signed, his committee "would want
the armed services to show what
part of their 1954 budgets were
for the purpose of fighting the
war.' The “reasonable cost” of the
war itself, he said, could then be
taken out of the budget.
Meanwhile, former Secretary of
the Air Force Thomas X. Finletter
said in an interview with Aviation
Age, a trade publication, that the
five billion dollar cut means “a
dethroning of air atomic power
from its primary keystone posi-
tion.”
He said the defense budget is
new "beck to an equal distribution
. . . between the three services”
and that this division reverts to a
“discredited idea, namely, the divi-
sion of the defense dollar to three
equal perta quite regardless of the
military effect of such a division.”
Vandenberg told the Ferguson
group the Air Force share of next
year’s budget was 32 per cent
From 1951 through 1953, he said,
the Air Force received 70 billions
out of total defense appropriations
of 155 billions
The burden of Wilson’s testimony
has been that money given the
Air Force has not been spent
nearly as fast as it has been mode
available; that ‘waste and inef-
ficiency” have run up costs; and
that there has been little effort to
co-ordinate the buying of planes,
the enlistment of personnel and the
building of etc bases.
Mich., and jumped the St Clair
River and tore through Sarnia,
Ont
The first tornado lashed Erie,
Mich., just over the Michigan-Ohio
line from Toledo, O., at 6:25 p.m.
At 8:10 a twister hedge - hopped
through Washtenaw County, 35
miles to the north and swept into
Milford, Oakland County, 15 miles
to the northeast. Tawas City, mid-
way up the eastern coast of Michi-
gan on Lake Huron, was Mt at
8:25 p.m. and Flint at 8:45 p.m.
The tornado area extended from
Tawas City down across the Ohio-
Michigan border to Bowling Green
— a path of 330 miles
I Die at Cygnet
Eight persons died in the twister
that struck the Cygnet, O., area
six died in the Cleveland area;
and one each at Elyria and Cey-
lon.
Michigan, fatalities, in addition
to those at Flint, included four
dead at Erie: four dead at Tawas
City: one at Ann Arbor; and ana
in Brown City, near Lapeer.
Flint hospitals were filled with
injured, many crowded into cor-
ridors still stunned by the swift
destruction that Ml their homes.
National Guard troops, state
police and police from numerous
Michigan cities converged on the
Flint area to aid. In the rescue
work. Gov. Mennen Williams took
personal command but did not de-
dare a stale of martial law.
Apparently the same tornado
which wrought M much destruc-
tion here and then moved on
through Lapeer County also cut a
swath 00 through to Lakeport This
is a Lake, Huron village a short
distance north of Port Huron,
where another tornado hit May 21.
No Deaths at Lakeport
There were injuries but no
deaths reported at Lakeport.
The Mme tornado which struck
in the Pleasant Lake region of
Washtenaw County swirled on to
Milford, causing an estimated
$500,000 property damage to that
Oakland County community Ne
fatalities were reported there, how-
ever.
The National Guard Armory
here was coaverted into a make-
shift central morgue. At last count
98, bodies had been brought in.
Priests and other clergymen ad-
ministered last rites there.
Pleas were radioed out of, here
for doctors and nurses State po-
lire reeked Mood to Flint from the
state health laboratory at Lansing.
Calls went out for antitetanus
drugs.
Maj Gen. Looter J. Maitland,
state civil defense director, or-
dered doctors and medical sup-
piles brought kere from Pontiac,
Saginaw, Ann Arbor and Detroit.
State police and the National
Guard ordered big crews of rescue
workers tale this area. /
Bodies Transferred
1 Hurley Hospital, which had more
than a score of bodies at one time
loot night, transferred the bodies
to the armory so that its space
could be used tor treating the
many injured.
THE WEATHER
• WAP"
ABILENE AND VICINITY — Fair and
RAWC
EAST TEXAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL
EXAS lets acaltered showers near
As Generally
Test
Beginning June 15 in the evening -
edition of the Reporter-News. iminen mW - " •
RANGER, June * (RNS)—Death 1
of Mrs. Alta Louise (Blue) 1
Graves. 37, who was shot about
4:30 p. m. Sunday while on a hunt-
tag trip IS miles south of Ranger 1
was rated accidental by Justice of
Peace Charles Bobe Tuesday.
An inquest was held Monday but i
a verdict was withheld pending 1
farther investigation. Justice Bobo
said Tuesday morning that Elmo
Doyett, 9. son of Mro. Aane Bell 1
Boyett of Ranger, was holding a
22 caliber rifle when it was acci- 1
dentally discharged Mrs. Boyett
and her two sons, Elmo and Bob-: 1
by Gene 7, were hunting with 1
Mrs Graves
Justice Bobo said the lad was
putting the gun on safety when R . 1
was discharged The bullet entered 1
Mro Graves’ back just under the 1
shoulder and passed through the 1
heart area, he said 1
Both were looking for a squirrel 1
to a tore when the accident oe- I
eurred. 1
Funeral Held '
Funeral for Mrs. Graves was |
held st 10 a. in Tuesday in the 1
Ranger First Methodist Church 1
with the Rev. D D. Bryan, pas- |
tor of the Second Baptist Church |
here, officiating Burial was in Ev-
ergreen Cemetery under the direc-
tion of Morris Funeral Home I__
Mrs. Graves was born in Miami, LEAVES FOR WAR-TORN HOMELAND — Gen. Paik Sun
Okla • May 29, 1*14 She was a Yup South Korean army chief of staff prepares to board an
Miner a Kanm," cays mumana Airport sundry en
per, Ralph Pancake, George Rog- route to Koron. Gen Paik was at Fort Leavenworth, Kan .
ers. Jack Mace, Chick Brown and
Garland Pancake
Survivors include a son, Johnny
Hayden Graves, IT, a Ranger High
School student.
when informed by the South Korean ambassador in Wash’
ington of President Syngman Rhee’s order recalling South
Korean army officers training in the United States The offi-
cer at right to Nam Song In. (AP Wirephoto)
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