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The Abilene Reporte
VOL. LXI, NO. 360
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH
24 Texans Die
By Violence
In Weekend
ABILENE, TEXAS, MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1954 —FOURTEEN PAGES
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Violence claimed % lives in
Texas over the weekend. Traffic
accidents accounted for 13 deaths.
Five persons died by gunfire, four
drowned, one was stabbed to death
and one died in a plane crash.
Victor Calvillo. 25, of Charlotte
in Atascosa County, died in a San
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Antonio hospital Sunday after be-
ing stabbed in the chest and ab-
domen during a fight at his home
Saturday night.
William Richard Law. 41. San
Antonio cement finisher, was found
shot to death at his home early
Sunday Police found a pistol and
a note near the body.
Purdee Sonny Hardin, 39-year-old
South Dallas man, died after he
was slashed around the reck and
back in a tavern brawl early Sun-
day and then felled by gunfire as
he ran from the tavern.
Emory Jacks, 13, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Carmen B. Jacks of Eva-
dale in the Beaumont area, was
killed Saturday night when a car
hit the corner of a bridge and
bounced headon into a carload of
young Evadale people.
Nicholas Casares, 48 of Clark
wood in Nueces County, was shot
and killed early Sunday by a spec-
lal deputy during a fight outside
a dance hall.
Newton Baird, 42, was shot to
death Saturday night at the Hous-
ton suburb of Almeda during an
argument which developed after
he and five brothers met to divide
receipts from a trucking business.
Five-year-old Billy Dean Roache
drowned in a swimming pool in
Dallas Saturday night while swim-
Bung with his parents.
A 16-year-old negro youth Ray-
UN Presents New
Korea Aid Plan
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STEEPLE TOPPLES IN CHURCH FIRE—The steeple of the Be year old Methodist
urca in the Colorado mountain town of Leadville collapses as flames swept through
the structure and on to an adjoining garage. Dynamite was set off to blast the church
walls and help control the flames. No injuries were reported. Damage was estimated
at $60,000.
WANTS PLACE IN SUN
McCarthy May Pass Probe
Ball After Hearing Ends
WASHINGTON, June IS t
Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) may hand
the investigative ball to Sen. Pot-
ter (R-Mich) after the McCarthy-
Army hearings end and take a
brief cooling off period in his hunt
for Communists in government
With Republicans driving to wind
it up this week, the televised dis-
— | troversial investigations, which he
frequently has complained are be-
ing held up by the current inquiry.
McCarthy to Rest
pule between McCarthy and Ar-
my officials will resume at 10 a m.
EDT tomorrow with either McCar-
thy or one of his aides on the
stand. Once the hearings are end-
ed the Wisconsin senator would be
technically free to resume his con-
McCarthy told a newsman, how-
ever. that be wants a week in the
sun somewhere to rest before he
makes any new move. He said
Potter is ready to go at an early
date on what will be the next pub-
lic inquiry by the Senate Investi-
gations subcommittee.
Potter said preliminary inter-
viewing of witnesses has been
completed for a formal investiga-
tion of what has happened to
mond Davis drowned Saturday i F
night on Caddo Lake near Marshall Erwna inaoe name Mlaur
when a 14-foot boat he was op- Mi vw Hull DGGCI AHNS NEW
erating to take people to a dancing ■
•'law' Blast at McCarthy
Dewey WASHINGTON, June 13 * -
-eateeesse Atty. Gen. Brownell declared to-
abroad, follows a different code
at home.”
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.. June renewed and the Republic of Korea
13 @—The U.N. published tonight would aim at a “normal-military
a new five-year plan to make South force of 200,000 such as she could
Korea self-supporting by 1958 at support herself
a cost of $1,930,000,000, including
$1,240,000,000 in United States and
U.N. aid.
Probe Splits
Free World
NEW YORK. June U Gov.
night "our system of government"
cannot survive if any person is
“allowed to act himself above the
laws of the land" or one branch
of government is able to “usurp
powers of another branch."
Obviously aiming a new blast
at Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis), without
mentioning his name, Brownell
said in a commencement address
prepared for the American Univer-
Thomas E. Dewey said today the
United States is "allowing a mis-
erable television show in Washing- sity graduating class:
too to divert the attention ... of
the free world from the threats to
Referring to Chief Justice War-
ren's opinion in the school segre-
gation decision, which said educa-
tion must be considered in the
light of the present rather than
the past. Brownell commented:
"It is, indeed fortunate that the
provision of our Constitution are
not mathematical, impotent aad
lifeless formulas imposing forever
the imprint of the past upon the
future."
Americans who still are held be-
bind the Iron Curtain.
This would include American
prisoner# of war and civilians not
freed by the Communists in Korea
and Red China, as well as Ameri-
cans held in Russia and in satel-
lite countries after World War II.
While neither McCarthy nor Pot-
ter mentioned the point, it was
obvious that this kind of inquin
would be calculated to appeal to
all Americans and not likely to
arouse any partisan controversy
in this country.
It is a good bet that McCarthy
believes a cooling off period is
in order after the sometimes vio-
lent emotions of the televised hear-
ings that have been under way
almost daily store April 22.
While he may want to let the
repercussions from this word bat-
tle die down, associates are pre-
dicting that before long McCarthy
will be back at the helm of
the investigations subcommittee,
plunging anew into his search for
Communists.
The plan was given in a 488 page
report critical, in part, of Presi-
dent Syngham Rhee’s administra-
tion. It was laid out for the fiscal
year# between April 1; 1*53, and
March 31. 1958. It called for a
1958-59 gross national output 43
per cent above 1949-50, in the time
of the Communist invasion, and
81 per cent above 1952-53.
Year’s Survey
The report came from the Rob-
ert R. Nathan Associates, Inc..
Washington consulting economists
whose president was a long-time
New Deal brain truster. It was
prepared for the U.N. Korean Re-
construction Agency (UNKRA),
which paid the firm $125,000 for
a year's economic survey. It was
offered as the groundwork for
joint U.N. Korean government
planning.
UNKRA made it public here, in
Geneva, and in Seoul where it has
headquarter#. The agent general.
American Lt. Gen John B. Coulter
(ret) said this did not necessarily
mean UNKRA accepted aU the
recommendations, though he term-
ed the statistical data useful.
The report assumed that the
1050-53 Korean War would not be
(President Rhee told South Ko-
rean farmers yesterday. “We must
be ready to die in the northward
march to unify our country." Sen.
Knowland (R-Calif) said in the
Senate, April 14, South Korea had
800.000 troops. Other sources have
estimated the combat force at
640,000 plus service troops. The
United States helps support them.)
Changes Needed
The Nathan report, without men-
tioning Rhee personally, recom-
mended "sweeping changes and
improvements" in government pol-
icies, particularly in “the effici-
ency and integrity of Korean pub-
lic administration.”
It said officials’ salaries were
too low and that “indirect supple-
mentation of income., has virtually
been institutionalized in Korean
government circles.” It declared
that the government tolerated in-
flation and black markets, largely
dominated labor organization and
was inefficient in running the bulk
of Korean industry.
The report criticized South Ko-
rea's own $2,170,000,000 five-year
plan on the ground that it would
devote over half the spending to
social welfare, as against a quar-
ter in the Nathan plan. I said the
government plan “would postpone
far into the future the attainment
of self-supporta t: *
STEALS ACT — Solemnity of the
occasion means nothing to Win-
ston, who seems to be doing an
imitation of a camel while his
rider. Queen Elizabeth IL salutes
paraders at Buckingham Palace
in London during Trooping the
Cotars ceremony. Winston is
picked because of his docility
and training, but no one told him
to stop the comedy.
CIVIL DEFENSE TEST
OPENS AT 7 TONIGHT
Trent Bank
Theft Toiler
i Ex-Finance
- Minister's
J Help Sought
PARIS, June 13 inPresident
Rene Coty accepted the resigna-
4 tion of Premier Joseph Laniel's
government tonight and asked for-
| mer Finance Minister Pierre
I Mendes-France to try to farm a
■ new one.
I Mendes-France, known to favor
a sharp cuts in military spending,
■ said he would not give his final •
I answer to the President until to-
■ morrow morning.
| Failed Once
I Mendes-France fell 13 votes short
of the necessary majority last
4 June when he tried for investiture
I as premier during the 37-day crisis
I which finally was resolved by Jo-
| seph Laniel.
I A 47-year-old Radical Socialist
I moderate 1. Mendes-France favors
I sharp cuts in military spending as
the only means of getting the na-
tion's economy back on its feet. He
insists that only after France has
• healthy economy can it hope to
make its full contribution to the
military effort.
A year ago when seeking inves.
titure he said he would support the
European army treaty which would
rearm Germany.
In an address last week to the
. National Assembly on the Indo-
china situation, he sharply crit-
icized Foreign Minister Georges
Bidault for not making great
enough efforts far peace in the
seven-year-old war.
its very foundations"
Although he did not mention the
Anny-McCarthy hearings, the New
York governor was clearly refer-
ring to them.
The nation needs to grow in ma-
turity. forbearance and under-
standing. Dewey said in a speech
at ceremonies at which the corner-
stone was laid for the Albert Ein-
stein College of Medicine at Ye-
Shiva University in the Bronx. He
added:
"Most of all, we need to acquire
• little sense of humility . . .
"We ourselves are far from per-
fect and we had better grow up
fast enough to extend to others,
from France to India, and from
Indochina to Britain, the same tol-
erance of their difficulties which
we ask them to extend to us.
"If they should judge us by our
preoccupation with the stupidities,
of, if you will, the cruelties of
single individuals, we would, lose
our world leadership and a tree
world."
"We must be ever vigilant to
preserve our liberties from those
who owe allegiance to other ideal-
ogies and also from those mis-
guided persons whose zeal may
lead them into errors no less de-
structive."
While every citizen must assume
the burden of preserving “our
freedoms and our form of govern-
ment." he said, “that does not
require a return of the vigilantes
of the frontier. It does require a
personal vigilance in all our ac-
tions. however small they may
seem at the time."
Brownell’s address was similar
in tone to a statement he issued
with White House approval May
a saying the executive depart-
ment has “sole responsibility” for
protecting the nation's security.
The recent Supreme Court de-
cision outlawing racial segregation
in public schools, Brownell said,
"hit with great force the Comnmu-
nist propaganda claims'' that
America "although preaching the
freedom and equality of all men
Showers Possible
Here Late Today
Thundershowers may fall here
and in an area west of here late
Monday afternoon and night, the
V. S. Weather Bureau said Sun-
day night.
The weatherman said the show,
ers are more likely to fall west of
here.
Rain fell at widely scattered
points in West Texas Sunday. At
9:30 p. m. El Paso reported a
shower aad thunderstorms were in
progress at Maria, Lubbock and
Amarillo. The precipitation was
being caused by a low pressure
trough which extended from Mex-
ico across West Texes into the
Dakotas.
McCarthy has stepped off the
subcommittee for the current in-
quiry and Sen. Mundt (R-SD) is
heading the group temporarily.
But unless some new rule is made.
McCarthy automatically goes back
to the chairmanship when the pub-
lic hearings end
Sen. Flanders (R-VD) has filed
a motion in the Senate to strip Mc-
Carthy of all of his committee
chairmanships, but Sen. Knowland
of California, the Senate Republi-
can leader, said be thought Flan-
ders made a mistake in doing this
without consulting the GOP lead-
ership, and there were no immedi-
ate signs the motion would be
pressed
Mundt Still In? 1
While McCarthy is expected to
return to command as for as other
investigations are concerned,
Mundt presumably will continue
as presiding officer when the sub-
committee drafts its report on the
McCarthy-Army hearings.
The Wisconsin senator’s friends
are known to feel it would be a
happy development from their
standpoint if he could come up
with what he calls a "Fifth Amend-
ment Communist" at about the
time the Democrats oa the sub-
TRENT. June 13. - Burglars
were unsuccessful in their at-
tempt Saturday night to break into
the Home State Bank safe here
Taylor County Sheriff Ed Powell,
who helped investigate the bur-
Monday is D-Day for Abilene’s Civil Defense and Dis-
aster Emergency Relief organization. ________
At 7 p.m. the one-hour test will begin with the blowing glary, said the knob on the safe
of warning horns, sounding in three three-second blasts was knocked off.
in a series. Ten seconds will elapse between each series “ could be determined
of Masts. *-----------
off.
but so far
The weatherman also said
weak cool front was moving slow-
ly eastward across western Ari-
zona but was not expected to low-
er temperatures.
16I
The test will be a full-scale operation complete with
simulated casualties.
The disaster area will be bounded by South 11th St..
South 20th St, Butternut St. and Sayles Blvd. Rescue
teams will find 24 casualties in this area.
Harry Dobbyn, organization chairman, has urged per-
sons who do not have assignments in the disaster area
to stay out of it
The all-clear signal will end the alert at 8 p.m. It will
consist of three long blasts with 10 seconds between each.
French Crisis Handicaps
Geneva Indo Negotiations
GENEVA, June 13 (—Western
leaders, handicapped by the ab-
sence of an effective French gov-
ernment, pondered today their fu-
ture course in the deadlocked In-
dochina negotiations with the
Communist bloc
The Cabinet crisis in Paris, fol-
lowing the defeat of Premier Jo-
seph Laniel in a parliamentary
status of the talks here, because
France is the Western nation
committee express their views on
• the hearing soon to end.
The Democrats, of course, could
throw a road block of their own.
but McCarthy could break through
it if he had solid support from
his Republican colleagues. Under
the subcommittee’s rules, no in-
vestigation can be undertaken ...__,__, . ---
without a majority vote of the Par- to Switzerland and acting head of
ent. Government Operations Com:
mittee if the three subcommittee
Democrat# object to it. Republi-
cans are in the majority on the
parent committee, and McCarthy
is chairman of this group too.
most concerned in Indochina.
U.S. Undersecretary of State
Walter Bedell Smith, British For-
eign Secretary Anthony Eden and
Jean Chauvel. French ambassador
the French delegation, met late
in the afternoon to survey the
West's position.
Owe of the topic# reported un-
der consideration was whether
there is any point in continuing the
stalemated negotiations here.
-----nothing
was missing from the bank.
Powell said the culprits gained
entry into the building by prying
open the back door with a jimmy
foofe-e-eW
THIS’LL SHOW THOSE AUT06 — Fred Manchester, 70, parks his horse and buggy in
a spot reserved for him on a corner of famed Boston Common as he makes his week,
ly shopping visit to town with his housekeeper, Mrs. Ada Sweet. Sign at left was erect,
ed by town officials after Fred tied his horse to the police stationprotesting cars were
taking all parking spaces. The horse, 26, seems reasonably satisfied. *
Johnson Slates
Anahuac Speech
( ANAHUAC, Tax June n 0 -
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson is to be
principal speaker when approxi-
mately 6,000 members of the Mys-
tic White Heron of the Trinity
River hold their lath annual Hah
fry at Fort Anahuac Park Satur-
day night.
The fraternal organization, cre-
ated to boost river and watershed
development in the Southwest ad
vocates the canalisation of the
Trinity River from Anahuac to
Dallas and Fort Worth.
Others expected to attend in-
clude Sen. Price Daniel of Lib.
erty and U. S. Rep. Clark W.
Thompson of Galveston.
East and West are at odds on
terms for a possible cease-fire, the
composition of an international
neutral commission to supervise
an armisticer and the status of
Laos and Cambodia, two of the
Associated States. Last week Eden
bluntly told the conference it
should bridge the East-West gap
at once ar candidly admit failure
to the world.
The following day Eden said as
much again to the equally dead-
locked Korean conference to which
Eastern aad Western delegations
are hopelessly split on the manner
of conducting elections to unify
Korea.
American sources said the nine
members of the Indochina confer-
ence were tentatively scheduled to
reassemble in a plenary, or semi-
public, session tomorrow at 3 p.m.
(» a.m. EST). This was subject
to confirmation in a new meeting
between Eden and Soviet Foreign
Minister V. M Molotov, probably
tomorrow morning. Eden and Mol-
otov are co-chairmen of the Indo-
china talks.
French sources said Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault would
return to Geneva by plane tomor-
row in time for the meeting—if
one is held. Bidault is in Paris
conferring with other political lead-
ers on ways to solve the political
crisis in France.
The burglary was discovered
about J P. m. Sunday by J. G.
Wilkes, bank president, when he
brought down the day's mail.
Helping Powell investigate were
Texas Ranger Jim Paulk of Abi-
lene. Deputy Sheriff Pete Petty of
Trent, Constable O. W. Graham of
i Trent, and Grover Chronister, Abi-
lene Police Department identifica-
tion officer.
Small Fox Epidemic
Takes 40 Lives Daily
KHARTOUM, Sudan, June 13 0
—Forty persons are dying daily
in a smallpox epidemic in south-
era Sudan, State Minister Santino
Dung said today
Drugs and medical officers are
being rushed to the affected areas,
he added.
Long an advocate of direct ne-
gotiation with Moscow-trained Ho
Chi Minh aa the most effective
way of bringing an end to the
fighting. Mendes-France claimed
that Bidault had talked to the head
of the Vietminh delegation only
once during the seven weeks of
the Geneva conference. He sareas-
tically said that that talk occurred
"in a bar at the initiative of M.
Molotov (Russian foreign minis-
ter)."
President Coty, hoping for a
quick end to the political crisis,
leaders today on what should be
done to form a new government
to deal with the pressing problems
of Indochina and the Geneva con-
ference.
Premier Laniel and his Cabinet,
defeated in a vote of confidence
in the National Assembly, resigned
yesterday but President Coty had
refused to accept the resignation
immediately.
It was believed that on his re-
turn visit tomorrow Mendes-France
would announce he would try to
form a new government. Other-
wise, the President would not have
accepted Laniel’s resignation to-
night.
Laniel announced the action aa
he left the President’s palace.
Laniel’s Cabinet was France’s
19th since the war. Their average
See FRENCH. Pg. 24. Col. S
THE WEATHER
U.S. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY - Partly
cloudy, continued warm Monday and Tues,
day. Possibility st widely scattered show-
ers Monday evening. High both days go-
as, low Monday nigor to.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS - Partly
elondy and warm Monday and Tuesday
with widely scattered late afternoon and
evening thunderstorms extreme north-
west portion.
WEST TEXAS—Partly cloudy and warm
Monday and Tuesday with widely seat-
tered late afternoon and evening thunder-
EAST AND SoUrR CENTRAL TEXAS
—Partly cloudy and warm Monday and
Tuesday with widely scattered afternoon
thundershowers near the coast. Moderate
to deally fresh southerly winds on the
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Rebels Destroy
Main Rail Line
HANOI Indochina. June 13 —Iminh attacks to short, bitter
Rebel guerrillas ripped up 200/ties.
yards of the Hanoi-Haiphong rail
line only 11 miles east of Hanoi
last night. They used the twisted
steel of the rails to barricade the
paralleling road and scrawled mud
warnings on the road that they in-
tend to "kill all French.”
The 60 miles of rail and road
betwren Hanoi and the port of
Haiphong form a critical lifeline
for this city and the besieged sur-
rounding delta. Over this lifeline
is carried all manner of American
kid being tended by ship at Hai-
Phong infiltrating guerrillas har-
rass it almost daily
They execute ambushes and
small attacks and the opposing
French Union forces spear out in
mopup campaigns as the battle
for the Red River Delta shapes
up slowly.
French-piloted American fight,
ers and B2 bombers dumped 50
tons of high explosives and
palm on guerrilla strongholds only
a few miles eeat of Hanoi early
today. During the night two small
posts, one northeast and the other
southeast of Hanoi, beat off Viet.
bat-
At the same time, the Commu-
nist-led guerrillas and their sym-
pathizers moved in to “help” del-
ta peasants harvest the rich rice
crop. A French officer here pre-
dicted bitter fights will occur when
the rebels try to get the rice out
to their main forces.
. The main Vietminh forces poised
for attack on the delta and Hanoi
are concentrated in five areas out-
side the triangular delta and in
relatively sparse country. They
must have ample feed stocks to
carry them through any sustained
attack and the food must come
from within the delta area.
French army officers said rev*
Ing patrote, mobile infantry units
and armored columns are girding
for “big fights" to cut the thou,
sands of underground supply routes
between the rebel guerrillas and
sympathizers in the delta to the
assault divisions drawn up at
Thai Nguyen, 40 miles north et
Hanoi: Phu Tho a miles north,
west: Phu Nho Quan, ss miles
*2M4 mhonh Hoa, *
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