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CLOUDY,
COOLER
The Abilene Reporter ~Y2ews
-WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE S KETCH-YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
MORNING
VOL. LXXIII, NO. 348
Associated Press (AP)
ABILENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE I, 1954—TWENTY-TWO PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
.S. May Airlift Aid
o Indochina French
SPEECH AT COLUMBIA
North Africa Said
‘Crusade of Truths’ Asked To Furnish Men
By Ike For Americans
OBVIOUS EDUCATION—Atty. General John Ben Shepperd (center) Monday called
for concrete education in his address to the 183 graduating Hardin-Simmons Universi-
ty students. Shown with him are President Evan Allard Reiff (left) and W. P. Wright,
chairman of the board of trustees. (See story on Pg. 1-B.) ___________-
East, West Difl
Over 'Neutrals
NEW YORK. May 31 @—Presi-
dent Eisenhower called tonight for
a "crusade of truths" against com-
munism and sounded a warning
against both foreign agents and
"demagogues thirsty for personal
power and public notice." •
Speaking at a dinner highlight-
ing the 200th anniversary of the
founding of Columbia University,
the President said there to no sub-
ject an which Americans are so
completely united as in opposition
to communism.
But be asked “Yet, my friends,
and I say this sadly, to there any
other subject that seems ... to
be the cause of so much division
among us?
“To this problem we must apply
more knowledge and intellect and
less prejudice and emotion,” be
said.
"We must not permit anyone to
inspire quarrels thet eventually
find good citizens bitterly opposed
to good citizens, when basically
all would like to be joined in ef
fective opposition to communism "
At no point in the speech did
the President mention the sharp
differences of his administration
with Sen Joseph R. McCarthy (R-
Wis).
But his voice became sharply
stern and impassioned when he re-
ferred to the ''division among us."
His remarks came just four days
after Atty. Gen Herbert Brown-
el! challenged—with Eisenhower’s
GENEVA, May J1 u—East and ; the question of sowing up a super-
West disagreed sharply over the visory commission.
composition of the proposed control
commission for the long sought ar-
Informed sources gave this ac-
approval — McCarthy's statement
that it is the duty of government
workers to supply information to
congressional investigators, even if
such action violates White House
directives.
Brownell said the executive
branch’s responsibility for enfore- |
ing federal laws "cannot be !
usurped by any individual who 1
may seek to let himself above %
the laws of our land.”
President Eisenhower’s address|2
at the Columbia dinner in the Wal-
dorf Astoria Hotel was a home-
SAIGON, Indochina, May 31 (AP) — Authoritative
French military sources said tonight the United States
may undertake a big Globemaster airlift soon to help meet
the menace of a Vietminh offensive against the Red River
=====----= Delta.
The Globemasters would
soenenic speed a mobile group of three
battalions, or some 2,100
W I men, from bases in North Af-
V __eonl | rica to the fighting fronts.
mistice to Indochina today, but
they moved one step nearer to a
possible cease-fire
Military representatives of the
two warring sides in Indochina
were ordered to meet here tomor
row to a preliminary session. They
will plan the talks to be conducted
later on the actual cease-fire ar-
nangements
As some Western sources spoke
more and more eg a Geneva "Pan
munjom” to which the peace talks
might be stretched out for months,
the nine-party conference argued
count of todays secret session
The Communists, headed by Dep-
uty Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
A Gromyko in the absence of For-
eign Minister V. M. Molotov, asked
for a commission similar to the
Neutral Nations Supervisory Com-
mission to Korea. U. S. Undersec
retary of State Walter Bedell Smith
objected to this formula and was
supported by France's Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault. Near the
close off the session, Gromyko die-
closed its was thinking of Poland,
Czechoslovakia, India and Pakistan
for the commission.
Smith pointed out that the Korea
body had been unable to function
properly because, he said, the Com-
munist states on the commission,
Poland and Czechoslovakia, had
been anything but neutral.
The U. S. delegate said the com-
mission should be truly neutral. He
added that Communist countries
could not be neutral to a dispute
where one of the parties was Com-
munist. Red China's Chou En-lai.
■ •£
Life
Challenge,
AHS Seniors Told
"Life has always been a chal- A E. Wells, superintendent of
lenge to the imagination of man,” schools.
Claudette Isbell, Abilene High Organist for the processional and
Scheel valedictorian, said Monday recessional was Betty Ross.
night to 310 graduating AHS sen- —------------------------------
Organist for the processional and
tors.
JUDGE RULES
Mrs. Gray Wasn't
'Unduly Influenced’
in a long statement, said Creche
slovakin and Poland had been Fat
solutely impartial” in the deliber-
ations of the Korean commission.
The U.S. delegation recently re-
leased a letter from the Swiss and
Swedish memberstvistating they
I were unable to perform their duties
because of obstruction on the pa
of Poland and Czechoslovakia.
ahmroee presby eriar
to, speaking on “And The Ocean a
Lies Beyond." "
She cited Elbert Hubbard’s ac-
count of the sinking of the Titanic.. .
in which he pointed out the heroic Nla.IL
deeds of a married couple who NOrTE TOMI
went down on the ship so that oth-INVI "h WUCIH
Vote to Unite
coming of sorts He headed the 307 Ma
university from 1948 until shortly p-U, MP A
before his inauguration last year bgehwl esnilai
then becoming president emeritus bostens
Some 1,800 alumni and friends
of the university gave the Presi-Mi
dent a vigorous reception and fre-Eg 1 su all
quently interrupted the nationally M1sh a
televised speech with applausena
Six interruptions came within PAT RALPH JONES
two minutes during that part of PAT MA PS
his speech devoted to internal di-
vision over communism. a
But the heaviest applause - a ilanA VAT
40-second burst—came when he ADGIG I UUll
said America must guard against
“all who seek to establish over us a a a aa a
thought control—briber they be Teniauy MIIF
agents of a foreign state or denaJGTIVMTY II UI
gogues thirsty for personal power •
and public notice.” s mow
The President flew here alter Ac Auto Fline
laying a wreath at the Tomb of AS AUIU 1 110.
the Unknown Soldier at Memorial PT ATGET
Day exercises in Washington, HerCA 16-year-old Abilene boy suf-
planned to return to the capital- - ■ -----A
immediately after Ms speech.
“Possibly in no other way do the
Communists se clearly exhibit
to Fli
fered a broken back when he
thrown out of a vehicle w
rolled over west of Abilene Mo
These sources added that Com-
munist Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap’s
351st Heavy Artillery Division has
reached its base 45 miles north-
west of Hanoi but that a general
assault is unlikely before the last
half of June. They said it seemed
more probable the blow would fall
to the autumn after the rainy
season.
1 U. S. Air Force has on two pre-
J vious occasions transported French
military units from France to
Indochina. One was before the fall
f of Dien Bien Phu. The second air-
lift arrived too late for its men
to participate in that battle.
The ssist, with its beary artil-
lery, trucks and man, is the first
of Giap’s five Dien Bien Phu’di-
visions to cover the 180 miles of
highway to the edges of the Tonkin
Delta.
Are Hit Daily
The other four—304, 312, 308 and
316—primarily infantry divisions,
are straggling along the tortuous
mountain route which the French
air force to bombarding daily with
American-supplied Bats. Bearcats,
and Corsair fighter planes.
These rebel units are not ex-
pected to reach their bases under
eight or 10 days, the French
sources said.
"ne boy, Pat Ralph Jones, son _ _ _____ .. _
—-------.---of Mr. and Mrs. Emory A Jones trenched to the rice paddies and
en: efforts to divide and thereby of 837 Jeanette St., was to “good” villages near the delta Gisp win
---_- ----a “T--condition to Hendrick Memorial — i
their fear of the free world achiev-
ng real unity as to their persist-
Once the Vietminh are en-
weaken, us." be said. “They ex-
ploit every difference of view
among independent nations to
make honest discussion falsely ap-
pear. not as a valued character-
istic of free systems, but as indi-
cation of mutual antagonisms
"This doctrine of divide and con-said the injured boy was riding as
quer they apply not only as be-
tween nations, but among groups
and individuals of the same na-
tion.”
Chou claimed to toys n * H O MONTREAT, N. C. May HI 0-
the United Nations had sabotaged n - theresdione , The Southern Presbyterian Church ,
the work af the Korean commis-Pnted ME PAL PTE PP LMLE| voted 283 to 169 today to unite
sion . 1915 Hubard s owned with other branches of the denomi-
________________________” aboard the ill-fated British liner ation the Presbyterian Church to
| Lusitania when it was torpedoed the USA Northern and the United
and sunk by a German submarine. | -.__. Cuuc-L. af North
Don Drennan, salutatorian, America.
spoke on “We Have Crossed the Union was approved by the
Bay." Southern branch’s General Assem-
He quoted Shakespeare who said, bly in session here. The merger
“Time and tide walls for no man still must be approved by synods
He emphasized that God makes and presbyteries and by individual
smoother sailing throughout life, churches.
All students who participated on The two other branches of the
the program were honor students. | church already have approved the
They were Dan Boyd, who gave union
the invocation; Undo Parish who The Southern Assembly approved
recited a poem. “You and I": Jer-the merger only after heated de-
ty Stringer, who presented Thom-bate interrupted frequently by
as Huxley’s “A Liberal Educa-prayers. The ballot was taken by
tion,” and Janice Jennings, who voice vote after a motion to hold
led the class to singing the school a secret ballot was defeated.,
song, “Dear Of Abilene High.” The Assembly previously had or
The class was presented by Dr Jared segregation discontinued
Charles Romine, AHS principal, within its churches, but there still
and the diplomas were awarded by was debate as to whether this will
-------------------------------be left to individual churches, fol-
lowing a custom the Assembly has
always taken to allow local units
freedom in leading in internal mat-
Reds Say Preu
Distorting Geneva
Special to the Reperter-News I the Methodist orphans home at
MONAHANS. May >1 - " In-Waco. ____
fluence” to the contest to break All had similar testimony in that
the will of Mrs. Rebecca Estes|Mrs. Gray was interested in their
Gray was ruled out by 109th Dis--institutions and often visited the _____.___..
trice Court Judge G. C. Olsen - colleges and orphans home. They MOSCOW. May 31 th — Pravda
testimony in the seven-day-old trial also said other members of her and Tom assailed the U.S. press
ended Monday afternoon family had made, similar done- today far alleged lying, distortion
Judge Olsen notified defendants tions to the institutions ihisioriatioe about the Gen.
and plaintiffs that no influence Under cross-examination, Dr and misinformation *
had been shown and that it would Cooke admitted he tried to knoweva conference
not be a question on the charge he persons of means who would con- The Soviet news agency and the
will present to the jury. tribute to McMurry College and Communist party organ said Amer-
The case will probably go to said he was at all times doing ican newspapers “either ignore pro-
the Jury Tuesday afternoon after his best for the college posals submitted by delegations of
arguments are concluded by at- Farr and his wife said they had the Soviet Union, the Chinese Pet
torneys for both sides. Argument been close friends with Mrs. Gray ple’s Republic, the Korean Peoples
hae been limited to two and one-for several years. They said she Democratic Republic and the Den:
half hours each. frequently took trips with them ecratic Republic of Viet Nam (the
y ===== -= - -
-4 in-tended. Both testified that Mrs. possible for the reader to get an
. uitheie mud her Gray was a pleasant companion ea of these proposals ,
5, 19517 and that her home was well fur- These are the sharpest words yet
Presbyterian Church of North
America.
Southern branch’s General Assem-
Continue March
Eisenhower spoke of “continuing
the revolutionary march of the
founding fathers" in the struggle
and hr added **
“As they roused to mankind the
Hospital Monday nieht. his dates
He suffered a severe injury to
his left eye, a head in jury and two
fractured vertabre.
Highway Patrolman W. A. Jacob
lecide whether to strike or wait
for more favorable weather and
terrain.
If Glap hurls Im divisions into
the delta in the fall, the French
would ast ba astonished to see
them move behind Chinese-fur-
nished tanks. It also is possible.
=Tint ■s:Ism'3
Abilene. The accident occurred two
and one-half miles west of Abilene
on U. S Highway to After the ac-
cident, the auto was on the north
by Vietminh fliers trained to China
side of the highway. *
Richards is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. M. L. Richards of 834 Poplar
St.
will enter the war far the first
time since it began more thaa
seven years ago.
Whether Glap hits in two weeks
ar * he wests, the delta wil
Replacements Forming
‘ To do so, Gen. Henri Navarre.
French commander to Indochina, to
forming replacements for the 14
battalions lost at Dien Bien Phu
from units here as well ct rein-
forcements promised by French.
The North African mobile group
would form part of this defense.
The French also expected sub-
stantial increases to materiel
which will boost their firepower
before the big battle starts. Among
these will be French manufactured
determination to win political free- Judge Refuses
dom from dynastic tyranny, we uese m
can ignite to mankind the will to Delay in Duval
win intellectual freedom from the HOUSTON, May 31 un—Federal
false propaganda and enforced ig-Judge T. M. Kennerly refused to-
norance of Communist tranny, day to order Acting Dist. Judge
Through knowledge and under-A. s Broadfoot to delay empanel-
standing, we will drive from the
temple of freedom all who seek
to establish over us thought con-
trol—whether they be agents of a
foreign state or demagogues thirsty
for personal power and public no-
tice.”
Newsmen asked James C. Hag-
erty. White House press secretary,
whether Eisenhower had McCar-
ing a new Duval County grand
jury. -
Members of a Duval grand jury
Broadfoot discharged March a
Mercuries Soar
To 95 Degrees
n * * * mAcme at Highway Deaths
3,30 p. m. Monday. . *
The U. S. Weather Bureau at Nearing Record
Municipal Airport said this was the RUCH’S RUVelt
hottest here stare last April 6,
when the mercury reached the
96-degree mark
The humidity at 3:30 p m meas-
... I These are the sharpest words yet
i ai nished and had all the customary in the Sestet press about Geneva.
: 1 Was the o appliances. The papers have been largely cir-
the time sheadded a codief Farr. • mortician, was cross- cumspect up to now but apparently
the will on Aug. 9. 19527, . examined by the attorneys for have started to Bold a case laying
A number of relatives of Mr the plainun, na snneua re the blame on the went if the parley
Gray, mostly cousins, are attempt celved $5.ooo for burial expense should fail.
‘:* , P from Mrs. Gray, but that her fo-*
Et Milios tneunuuon, neral 37- *
including McMurry College of WAD .no anda truer. Re fecu
lene.__. , tors of the Gray will had ordered acuous as ueweva. ammv ----
Arguments are rcheduled to be-that kind of funeral to keeping anything to the papers about bow
gin at 9 a.m. Tuesday. winthtP ..........
Witnesses for the defense con-- ------------------------------------
eluded testimony in the sevenday- . — ■
===== Justice Urges ACC Grads
Church, testified that Mrs. Gray M _____
was active in church, business and, m m
To Face Communist Threat
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Farr, friends •*" *****
of Mrs. Gray form Monahans, . .
so took the stand as did heads “Knowledge, intelligence, edu
of three institutions which bene- cation—these are the mountain
A-thwin -------------i
Meanwhile, Soviet Foreign Minis-
ter V. M. Molotov conferred with
Premier Georgi Malenkov and
other ministers concerning future
actions at Geneva. There wasn’t
long he intended to stay in Moscow.
the A-bomb and H-bomb ..
Pope spoke to the graduating
seniors of the 48th session of Abi
peaks from which we gain a broad L-------
The three matitution heads were perspective for today s liberty,” lene Christian College in Motes
Harold Cooke, president of Judge Jack Pope declared before
152 graduating seniors of Abilene
Christian College Monday night.
In pointing out the issues of
the day to graduates and visitors.
Pope, justice of the Court of Civil
Appeals, San Antonio, said the age
aid conflict between freedom and
anihority is an issue today.
* Gollath is abroad in the
Dr. L___
McMurry College, Abilene; Dr.
Law Sone, president of Texas We
sleyan College at Fort Worth, and
Hubert Johnson, superintendent of
NEWS INDEX
world,” ba asserted to reference
Stadium Approximately 2,000 per-
sons filled the stands
The youngest judge of civil 8
peals to Texas Judge Pope grad-
uated from ACC to years ago
to the day of his address.
one of the highlights of t N
awarding of two master of edu-
cation degrees to Norris Campbell
and Ella Ruth Yowell, the first in
ton
ured 32 per cent.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The toll of dead on the nation’s
highways topped the 300 mark
Monday and a possibility ap
- peared that homeward bound mo-
the trustees awards.
S. N Allen, long-time trustee,
was selected by the board as the
A member of the faculty to
named annually as an outstanding
classroom teacher. The award.
SECTION A
Women’s News . Pages 3, 4
Iporio........Pages 10, 11
on News....... Page 13
SECTIONB
siterieh........5:
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Form, Markers......Few ?
E
ACC’s History.
Gary Freeman, senior student.
presented JW Campbell, junior
class representative, with the
Bible traditionally handed down
from the graduates to the juniors.
B. Sherrod, president of the
Board of trustees, named Betty Me-
Dermett et Abilene and Jack Scott
"foe a o thee can
a promise of material security
coupled with a threat of insecu-
rity for those who disagree, he
said.
Pope appealed to the graduates
to meet the issue and have faith
to a Gad which can preserve life wermven or nonenes o gmun :7—-
even through mans depruction byl of Sweetwater na receiptlants * X *
asked Kennerly to delay the saw
paneling of a new jury until the
dispute could be heard to federal
court.. :
San Diego, Tex,, tonight, said he
would proceed with planel to em-
panel the new jury tomorrow
merning.
Kennerly permitted the 16 plain-
tiffs to file their petition and gave
both sides until June 12 to file
briefs on the question of jurisdio-
they in mind when he spoke of
“demagogues,” or in any other
section of the speech.
“I am not going to try to inter-
pret the President’s remarks,”
Hagerty replied.
At toe outset of his speech, Ei-
See CRUSADE, Pg. 14-A. Col. 2 tion.
, tartoto would break the all-time
record for Memorial Day holiday
fatalities.
The National Safety Council ap
pealed to drivers returning home
from weekend trips to drive safely
During the first 72 hours of the
holiday after 6 p.m Friday traffic
deaths across the nation totalled
301. There were 68 drownings and
M deaths from miscellaneous
causes for a grand total af 422
Ned H. Dearborn, president of ...... ...,___.---... - -----.----------.-
the National Safely Council, said whom none of them had ever seen sell a radio from the station was
that as the weekend drew toward ---
FATHER ATTENDS RITES ‘
Slain Boy, 16, Was
'Adventurous Type'
13-on light tanks and armored re-
connaissance cars, both peculiarly
adapted to maneuver in flooded
on the naval side, the command
announced the United States hoe
just delivered one medium landing
ship of 1,800 tons and six others
are en route. Four will arrive soon.
Thanks to stepped up American
Bee IDOCamNA re 144. C. 1
THE WEATHER
BALLINGER, May 31. (RNS) — until he was arrested by Highway -
Ballinger people paid their last Patrolman E. H. Gilbert in Pecos
Jennings had been attempting t
BALLINGER, May 1I (RNS) -
respects to a young stranger -
v. s. DFrAaT*R*T or COMMERCE
WRATRKA AC ARAG
ABILENE AND VICINITY - Clear to
partis cleedy Tuesday and Wednesday
ble Tuesday se, how Tuesday might so,
hire Wednesday as.
FAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
Parth chedy through Wednesday with
wider scattered afternoon thandershower •
mostly near coast No important tempers
—----- We methent shds
CENTS AL Texas
this year went to J. Roy Wil-
* Morris, president, stat-
ed that more members of the
graduating class of 1954 were citi-
M2, cuts#
Diane Estes King was the honor
graduate of the year and Rollo
Tinkler received the Dean’s
award. )
The commencement exercises
concluded, as each session has
Mm .tore the #* of the
o-anh mon t POe
a close death was “playing a grim
nip and-tuck game with motorists
to see if the traffic toll can be
held below the preholiday estimate
of-340 deaths.”
Ex-BU Professor,
Of Organ Dies 1
RIDGEWOOD, N. J. May it *
—Dr. Cart Robert Wiesemann,
organist and music teacher, died
last night at his home after a
brief iliness. He was organist at
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic
Church in Clifton, N. J. ).
Wiesemann at one time headed
the organ department at Baytor
University, Waco, Tex.
- fo withering heat here Mon-on he was driving and Gilbert re
day.
A large crowd turned out as the
Rev. Emmett Brooks read last
rites for 16-year-old Wallace Wind-
sor O’Neal of Blue Ridge. Ga.,
found murdered near here Satur-
day morning. .
His camping companion, Allen
Clyde Jennings, 33, was taken to
Austin Monday by Runnels County
Sheriff Don Atkins for lie detector
tests. Jennings is charged with
the murder.
Jennings was returned to Bal-
linger Sunday and claimed the boy
had drowned in the river and that
M MP MM set mmelitte"
cognized him from a. description
he had heard over his radio.
Gilbert asked the man if his
name was Jennings, Whan he an-
swered to the affirmative, the pa-
trolman arrested him.
Sheriff Atkins, acting quickly
after the body waa found, had
broadcast a warrant and descrip
tion as soon as suspicious circum-
stances led to the belief the boy
had been murdered A
Following the funeral, the boy’s
father and brother sat in the cool
office of county attorney Jack
abering nothing
Moore and talked.
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