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VOL EXXIV, NO. 44
Probe Group
On McCarthy
Suggested —
WASHINGTON in— Sen. Know,
land (R - Calif) today formally
• asked the Senate to send the res-
elution to censure Sen. McCarthy
(R-Wis) and all amendments to
the resolution, to a special com-
mittee of three Republicans and
three Democrats
Knowland said Vice President
Nixon should name the six mem-
bers of the special committee and
that it should report back to the
Senate “as expeditiously as equity
and justice will permit.”
- Knowland made his motion an
hour and half after the third day
1 of debate on the resolution by Sen.
Flanders (R-Vt) to censure McCar-
thy for conduct that tends to bring
the Senate into disrepute.
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES Byron
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Anbociated Pres (A)ABILENE, TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST X 1954 EIGHTEEN PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
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Nixon Not In
The Republican leader did not
ask that Nixon sit as a member
of the special,or, as be called it,
"select” committee.
The pending amendments to the
Flanders resolution include the va-
rious specific charges which have
been filed as bills of particulars
by Sens. Fulbright (D-Ark) and
Morse (Ind-Ore).
- Before Knowland's motion, the
Republican leader had told the
Senate that Morse, who criticises
McCarthy's attitude toward secret
government information, had him-
self once revealed part of a “top
secret” document la a political
speech.”
Knowland told the Senate that
Moroe on Oct. 27, 1952, had dis-
closed portions of a top-secret
memorandum which the late
James Forrestal, had sent then
President Truman Sept. 26, 1*47.
on the question of withdrawing
U.S. troops from Korea. •
Morse had said in the Minneap-
olis speech that the decision to
withdraw troops was a military
decision, agreed to unanimously by
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and not
a State Department decision.
Charge By Ike
Eisenhower had charged to a
speech a fow days earlier that the
decision was, made by the State
Department.
Knowland said that whan ha
read ta the newspapers of Morse’s
disclosure he immediately asked
the Defense Department and the
State Department whether the 1947
memorandum had ever been de-
classified—that is, whether its “se-
crot" classification had ever been
changed.
Both agencies, he told the Senate,
replied in the negative
The Justice Department said
Nov. 11. 1952, Knowland said, that
the document had been declassi-
filed after its disclosure by Morse.
RELEAF FROM HEAT — Two - year-old Randy Holo-
way, almost hidden by his fig leaf, says this may be em-
barrassing but it's a mighty fine way to keep cool these
hot days. He: thoroughly recommends it—but only for
other 2-year-olds. Randy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clovis
Holloway of Brady, Tex.__
Building Far
Outstrips 1953
Minor Thefts
Plague City
OnWeekEnd
Abilene had a rash of burglar-
ies and thefts during the week
end.
Burglars tapped six different
places.
Three other thefts were reported
to city police.
Robinson Pharmacy, 1101 South
14th St., was burglarized between
10:30 p m. Saturday and 8 a.m.
Sunday. About |45 in cash was
taken from cash registers.
Entrance was gained by prytag
open the front door.
During Vacation
Mrs. T. A. Price, UN Park Ave.,
said Friday night she had just
returned from a vacation to find
her home had been burglarized.
She reported three corduroy shirts
and a rifle missing, with total val-
ue $25.
Alfred Weese, UN Graham St.,
said Saturday somebody burglar-
ized his home during the after-
noon. Nothing was missing. The
burglar entered through a rear
window.
Mrs. Annie Blakney said some-
one entered a residence at 842
South Treadaway Blvd. and state
a cabinet model radio and throe
small gas heaters.
Silverware Stolen
If 1954 doesn't set the all-time
high for buildtag in Abilene, the
City Engineering Department will
miss its guess.
MAYBE IT’LL NEVER
COME UP AGAIN
GENOA, Italy (AP)—It’s turned out to be just a
hypothetical question, but officials here are wondering
whether a consulate dog has diplomatic immunity.
Over the weekend, the Austrian consulate’s pet Ger-
man Shepherd took an undiplomatic bite at 25-year-old
Marisa Bernardo, on consular property.
Her parents said she developed a fever, took her
to a hospital, and demanded that police kill the dog
and examine it for rabies. „
The consulate refused to surrender the dog, claim-
ing diplomatic rights.
Marisa got well. The charges were dropped. But po-
lice still haven’t figured out what they could have done
about it, if it all hadn’t worked out.
Guatemala Row
Kills 2 Persons
Ballinger Murder .
Trial Underway
GUATEMALA Un—A quarrel be-
tween Guatemalan military cadets
and the “liberation forces” of Col.
Carlo# Castillo Annas, chief of the
country's ruling junta, erupted in-
to a battle today. Two persons
were killed and several wounded.
The fighting caused reports the
cadets and some others had re-
volted in sympathy with the de-
posed leftist government of Jacobo
Arbenz.
But later it appeared the fight
was an intra-mural conflict be-
tween the cadets and members of
the Castillo Annas army, victors
in the June-July revolution.
The fight started at 4 a.m. (5
a.m. EST) near Roosevelt Hospital
where forces of the Castillo Annas
the government, but were being
held in quarters. The commanders
asked that the liberating army sus-
pend its action against the military
school, and a cease-fire order was
given by Oliva and Ortega.
(Private advices reaching New
York said there had been a Com-
munist-inspired uprisingat El
Progreso, 50 miles from Guate-
mala City.)
Jailed Reds
Given Bonds
By RUTH LITTLE
Reporter-News Correspondent
BALLINGER, Aug 2 (RNS) —
Largest venire for Runnels Coun-
ty since the famous Clary trial
of IMS was “called up in 119th
District Court Monday.
From ths 125 veniremen, a jury
will be picked in the trial of
Allen Clyde Jennings, 33, of
Mount Pleasant.
Courtroom to Be
Finished This Week
Refinishing work on the district
courtroom is Taylor County court-
house is expected to be completed
within two or three days.
As acoustical plaster ceiling has
been installed midway in what for-
merly wee a double-height ceiling.
The space that formerly was the
upper part of the courtroom to
being converted to offices.
Light fixtures were installed in
the courtroom Monday morning
and painters started applying the
first of two costs of pastel green
paint to the walls Windows in the
courtroom are being washed. .
When the second coat of paint-
ing ie completed aad furniture is
returned to the courtroom it will
again be ready for use.
Walter Balfanz, contractor, said
Monday morning that work on the
third-floor offices should be com-
' pleted by about Sept. 1
Work on the platter walls is
now awaiting arrival of steel door
frames. Balfanz said the door
frames have been shipped and are
exported to arrive within two or
Three days.
army are encamped. A cadet was
killed, and virtually the entire
body of cadets then attacked the
encampment. Firing from rifles,
machineguns and mortars was
heard about two hours.
Maj. Enrique Oliva, member of
the Castillo Armas junta, and Col.
Jose Ortega, chief of staff, moved
forces into position for an attack
on the military academy. Govern-
ment planes were given orders to
attack the school.
Of $1
0
DENVER-U.S. Commissioner
Joseph D. Neff set bond at $100,000
each early today for four top
communists nabbed together only
one block from the Colorado Cap-
itol Building by FBI agents. A
fifth was arrested in Los Angeles.
Three men and a woman were
taken by FBI agents to city jail
here for fingerprinting, then to the
county jail. Commissioner Neff
said a preliminary hearing would
be held Aug. 16.
The arrest of ths four, along with
that of Mrs. Patricia Blau in Lan
Angeles, was announced in Wash-
ington by FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover. U. S. Atty. Donald E.
Kelley said an ware arrested on
warrants issued here and charging
them With violation of the Smith
Act.
That law, under which a total of
115 Communist party functionaries
have boon arrested since 1949,
makes it a crime to teach or ad-
vocate the forcible overthrew of
the U.S. government.
J. T. O’Neal Jr.; a sister, Odra
Mae O’Neal; and a sister-in-law,
Mrs. J. T. O’Neal Jr.
District Judge 0. L. Parish will
preside at the trial. Prosecuting
attorneys are E. C. Grindstaff and
Runnels County Attorney Jack
Moore.
Paul Petty and E. B. Under-
wood are the attorneys appointed
by ths court to defend Jennings.
Of the veniremen. 17 asked im-
mediately to be excused from jury
service. Examination of the others
started at 10 a.m.
Jennings, who was arrested in
Pecos the - afternoon that his
young traveling companion’s body
was found, appeared calm as the
court convened.
He wore a white sportshirt and
tan trousers. Only nervousness he
betrayed was a slight flicking at
eyelids.
Sporadic fighting continued in
the vicinity of Roosevelt Hospital,
on the outskirts of the capital, un-
til 8:40 a.m.
Castillo Armas, who spent the
night at Chimaltenango, rushed to
Guatemala City by plane to pacify
the contending forces.
Commanders at the capital’s two.
principal regular army bases an-
nounced these forces were loyal to
Jennings is charged with the
drowning murder of Wallace
Windsor O'Neal, 16, of Blue
, Ridge, - Ga. O'Neal’s body was
” found caught an a trotline in the
Max Elias, 1834 Edgemont Dr.,
said Sunday that a burglar state
the family silverware out of his
residence. He and his wife were
out of town Saturday night, and
the burglary occurred while they
were gone.
A vacant residence at 1133 Lex-
ington Ave. was reported burglar-
ized for the second time recently.
Nothing was damaged, police said.
The intruder got ta through the
garage.
L. A. Weber, 1717 Shelton St.,
told police Monday morning that
a set of fender skirts was stolde
between midnight and 4 a. m.
Monday from his UN Ford. The
theft occurred while the ear was
parked at Hendrick Memorial Hos-
Colorado River by fishermen on
May 29.
Present in the- courtroom Mon-
day morning was O’Neal’s father,
J. T. O’Neal Sr. of Blue Ridge.
Accompanying him were two of
the youth’s brothers, Orlow and
IN RESIDENTIAL AREA
Midnight Race Ends
County, C-C
Heads to Meet
A special meeting of the Taylor
County Commissioners Court is
set for 10 a. m. Tuesday.
The commissioners will meet
Those arrested here wore Arthur
Bary, 42, chairman of the Colorado
Communist Party and regional or-
ganizer for Colorado, Wyoming.
Montana, Utah and New Mexico:
Anna Correa Bary, 29, his wife and
former organizer of the Communist
party in Denver: Harold Zepelin,
28, Communist party organizer for
Colorado; and Lewis Martin John-
son, 34, bend of the Communist
party in Utah.____
As they left the office of Core-
missioner Neff, all except Mrs.
Bary, smartly dressed in a blue
dress and sporting a boyish Italian
hairdo, were handcuffed.
Commissioner Neff said the four
showed no emotion other than
“amusement” at their arraign-
ment. “It was all a big joke,” he
said..
After 2 Accidents
U: new public, 4; residential al-
terations and repairs, 27; non-resi-
dential alterations and repairs, 7;
and miscellaneous, 2.
Grand total of permits ta July,
1954, was 131.
Permits that office issued
July alone totaled $3,262,748.
That brought the volume for the New business buildings accoun-
year 1954, January through July, ted for $2,203,415 of the $3,262,748
to $8,578,879. That to $3 million * — —--*-
above the total for the same sev-
en-month period of 1953—$5,256,525.
It is only $2 million less than the
figure for the whole year 1953.
The July, 1954, permits were
nearly 10 times as great as the
$355,947 issued in the same month
of last year. This July's volume
was four times that of this June's.
Construction authorised through-
out 1953 totaled $10,499,865.
The number of projects of each
type granted pennite this July
was as follows: New residential,
71; new garages, 7. new business.
in
New business buildings accoun
July, 1954, volume. In that cate-
gory, the Citizens -National Bank
building represented $2,003,670.
pital.
Watch, Razor Stolen
Leo Walter, 226 Sayles Blvd.,
has reported that a 23-jewel Wal-
tham pocket watch valued at IN
aad a Sunbeam electric razor val-
ued at $27.50 were stolen Sunday
Drivers of two vehicles face rac- 1641 North Third st., traveling
ing and speeding charges result-
tag from a reported race on Or-
ange St. shortly after midnight
Monday morning. —____
THE WEATHER
Grid Gambler
Reported Dead
DALLAS mCharley Gordon,
gambler who became known as
the top football betting handicap-
per of the country while M had
headquarters in Dallas, wee re-
ported dead today.
His associates here said Gordon,
51, who was born in Chicago, died
in his sleep in New York Friday
night
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY — Partis 5
cloudy Monday afternoon, night and Tues- P
day. High temperature, Monday about se h
455% Low Monday nicht 80. High Tues'
“Nours CENTRAL TEXAS - Party
cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Tues-
day Local thunderstorms in west and north
wet were eye ‘-:
afternoon, tonight and Tuesday with widely
s"tered,conderstorms. Not much change
from his home.'
W. J. Caffey, 818 Kirkwood St.,
said Sunday that somebody had
stolen off his front porch an auto
air-conditioner. Police listed the
value as $60.
Joe Mitchell. 1001 South 15th St.,
reported to police Friday at 10:34
5 m. that a prowler was at his
home. .The intruder was gone on
arrival of police.
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5.
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Hilton Hotel Chain
Will Take Over
Plush Shamrock
One of the two is also charged
with failure to grant right-of-way.
Each of the allegedly rating
cars figured in collisions with
other automobiles.
Ths passenger ta one of the
ether -cars was slightly injured.
Jerry Wayne Earp, N. of 1610
Oak St., is charged in City Court
with rating, speeding and failure
to grant right-of-way.
Stanley Lee Froman, 20, of Route
2. Clyde, faces charges in the same
court of rectag and speeding.
An unidentified woman telephon-
ed police at-12:25 am Monday
that two automobiles were racing
on Orange St. She said they were
going south from North 14th St.
Policemen Black and Dillard ta
with an Abilene Chamber of Com-
merce committee which will make
recommendations on facilities for
• No-dFu Imp net oais proposed county Sericulture en
the crash’turned Lowke’s carl. . ...
about, facing north, officers said, missoneni at osee:
Testimony at Monday morning's 1 ing last Monday signified > their
court hearing regarding the Fro-willingness to ean a $600,000 bond
man-Lowke collision was that the issue to finance the agriculture
Froman and Earp cars were run-f center. The vote was alas taken
ning alongside each other at the on a proposed additional $250,000
time this crash happened. to be issued in bonds for improve-
Judge A. K. Door deededT2h " the courtbruie and coun-
against filing any charges against this vote, however, was not for
Lowke. Froman didn't appear at the purpose of actually calling the
the hearing, but Policemen Blackbond issue.
SHEi
aperature for * hours end
eusiu
HOUSTON mn—The Hilton Hotel
chain definitely will take over the
Shamrock Hotel, probably within
two weeks, the Houston Chronicle
said today.
Final papers on the transfer of
• the Shamrock from Equitable Life
Assurance to hotel magnate Con-
1 SHUNTED ASIDE HERE^SO;
6 Liberal Abilenians Elected
As Haskell Demo Delegates
Democratic nominees from precinct
to national office, and recommend.
HASKELL, Aug. 2 (RNS)-Lib-
eral Haskell County Democrats, in
full control of the county convene
tion Saturday, included six Yar-
borough backers from Abilene on
their siate of delegates to the state
convention Sept. 14.
With backers of Gov. Shivers in
full control in the Taylor County
convention, none oT the Ralph Yar-
ing that the election laws be
amended to eliminate “cross fil-
ing.":
The convention aim voted un-
animously to invite Gov. Allan
Shivers and Ralph W Yarborough
to apeak at a political rally to be
held here Saturday night. Aug 21.
The rally will be under auspices
of the county convention.
Thos. B Roberson, wholesale oil
dealer and former school teacher,
was elected chairman of the con-
vention Mrs. Norman Nanny, a
teacher in the Haskell schools, was
named convention secretary.
The party loyalty resolution,
the proveonrer use sate m
code, was submitted by Charles
borough, anti-Shivers forces were
named from Abilene.
So Oliver Cunningham Haskell
farmer-stockman, suggested that
the names of Mr and Mrs Bryan
Bradbury, Mr and Mrs. Dallas
Perkins, C. R. Pennington and A
W. Sorrells be included on the
Haskell County list, if credential
rules permit. The convention then
voted to include the six Abilenians.
A joint resolution was adopted ________.__
binding all delegates to support M. Conner, newly-nominated chair-
man of the County Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee The resolution
was, adopted by unanimous vote.
Also adopted was a resolution
that the Haskell County delega-
tion to the state convention vote
as a unit
Besides the, six Abilenians. the
following Haskell countians were
to the Mineral Wells state comer"
tion: Thomas B. Roberson, John
rad Hilton probably will be signed
this afternoon or tomorrow morn-
ing.
This became apparent when
Warner H. Mendel, general coun-
sel for Equitable, in a statement
from New York said: “It is very
possible that Hilton Hotels will be
sold a substantial portion of the
Shamrock debt within a short
time."
Equitable took over the Sham-
rock from oilman Glenn McCarthy
in May, 1952, along with McCarthy
Oil and Gas Corp, in settlement
of a debt of some $35,000,000 owed
Equitable by McCarthy
A. Couch, Courtney Hunt, Ed
Fouts, Clifford Abernathy, Fred
Sanders, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver
Cunningham, James E Ferguson,
Virgil A Brown, John Ivy, L. B.
White. 0. L. Moore, X M. Royall,
Chas. M. Conner, Norman Nanny,
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Watson,
H. E. Henry, HenryW. Smith,
John Crawford, a c Burson, Sr.
WHAT'S NEWS
ON INSIDE PAGES
tccusIASTIEAL honor Min.
ister, 80, has aided Sioux Indions
for 30 years. Poge P-A
KANSAS POLITICS—Control of
Republican party hinges on out-
some of governor's race. Poge 10--
Goose soMrs-ak diver as
cooler weather hits Leorn-to-
Swim program. Poge IS.
n.E
lene High School. Page 1-B.
and Maxwell testified. ----------------------------------------------------—
2.571== Farm Prices Off;
White, 541 Walnut St., was the "
cab driver. a
Police said the taxi, traveling m
west on North Third , was aTOOGS
most through the intersection CPSSR CCS ) ■ SEE
when the Earp car struck it. The 2
collision knocked the taxicab By B. L. LIVINGSTONE
around, officers said. * WASHINGTON un — The House
. Marshall O'Brien. 47 Lexington Agriculture Committee formally
ANCa rss ansus reported today-ho.—^ *
reported. eready knew: grocery store prices
Both Earp and Froman have remain at near-record highs de-
several days ta which to stand spite a sizable drop ta farm
trial in City Court, a police spokes-I prices.
man stated Monday. Making public a statistical study
-------------------------------------of the trend ta farm prices and
India Nationalists tmeniaea east, the committee
Another Town “Thus far, almost none of the
Another town lower prices received by farmers
BOMBAY, India un Nationalists since 1951 has been passed on to
took over another chunk % Port-Re rent ue form rf lower
5000 400 into ue ineotn %, Further declines in farm prices
Selvassa, 100 miles north of Bom-and liesioes produce come no de
Ns market and (government) price-
support levels are lowered.
IN EASTLAND COUNTY “Consumers can expect little
-------------------------------------------------benefit, however, from these lower
Body Exhumed, Relatives ====---=-
Say It isn't Their Mother-* t
~ point, came yesterday from the
EASTLAND, Aug 1 — The - — —-—- —*
body of a woman buried more
than two months ago in New Car-
a,police car were at North Sev-
enth and Cedar Sts., when they
heard the broadcart on their ra-
dio. Black testified at a hearing
in City Court Monday morning.
By the time they reached North
Seventh and Hickory St., a block
wert from where they Brat heard
the alarm. Black said, they saw
the two cars racing south on Or
ange. By the time the officers
went another block, to North Sev.
enth and Orange, one of the racing
cars had already figured in a col-
lision.
Another police car occupied by
Policemen Maxwell and Dewber-
Ty, also answered the radio call.
Froman’s auto had a collision
at. North Fourth and Orange Sts
The other car ta that wreck was
driven by Robert Allen Lowke,
bon Cemetery was exhumed
Thursday after a husband, son and
two daughters told officials the
body buried was not that of their
wife and mother.
An attorney had prepared a
written request to a funeral home
that the body be exhumed and a
permit was issued by Dr. L. C.
Brown, health officer of Eastland.______
After looking all the body that matter, officials
was found in the grave, the rela-Agriculture" Department, which
lives said it was not that sf their said —* foods will be in plenti.
wife and mother Dr Brown said. I ful supply during the remaining
other witnesses mid to # DA months of 1954-and that prices
Officials said the relatives were “emsesome., .
“elated.” believing their wile and heavier output of Dock, veal lord,
her body was stolen from the IS" “Wpt
hears on the way * the •"**■ as tampered with the same months
!%. encals said __last year. The department said
The family lives north of Gor-lamb and mutton are the only ma-
man..jor items which will be sesreer
. The body was reburied and no than last year.
farther action "S" * "." arnegsm
de more dating NH than he did
in 1953.
. The department reported last
Friday a drop in prices received
by farmers during the month end-
ing July 15, the second straight
month that farm prices declined.
The price index, based on 1910-14
averages, stead at 247 compared
with 260 in July last year.
The House committee found that
the farmer’s share of the consum-
er dollar is steadily dropping
while retail food prices have re-
mained at 1952 peak levels.”
It said that out of each dollar
We RoZ., m 4 or pre
cessing, marketing and transpor-
tation charges.
The farmer receives 44 cents,
of which 30 cents meets the cost of
producing his Crop, the report stat-
"“Thu, the farmer and his fam- -
ily have about 14 rents out of each
consumer dollar spent for domesti-
cally produced food for their work
aad their investment.”
Going hack to removal in 1945 of
war - imposed price “controls,
prices navaneca mope, “ten. Iron
then until their peak in 1951, and
that since then, farm prices have
dropped almost back to their 1ms
level. s
“In contrast," the committee
noted, “retail food, prices now hold
within a fraction of their1952
peak."
The committee said housewives
now are paying the ‘highest
mice eireeeei “sietehre
prices for wheat are down to we
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