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VOL. LXXIV, NO. 171 Associated Press (ar)
LODGE FLAYS REDS
ABILENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 7, 1954TWENTY TWO PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
UN Okays Talks JL
On Jailed Yanks
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 6 (AP) — The U.N.
steering committee beat down Soviet opposition today and
recommended, 10-2, that the Assembly begin urgent debate
Wednesday on the caes of 11 United States airmen held by
Red China on espionage charges.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., chief American delegate who
had requested immediate action by the 60-nation Assembly,
told the committee that “we in the United Nations cannot
let these men down. They are United Nations men. They
were sent to Korea by the
United Nations."
Allies An Agree
Shortly before the steering com-
mittee met. Lodge and the U U.N.
Allies of tha United States to Ko-
rea agreed M a resolution. It was
reported they would ask the As-
sembly to call on Secretary Gen-
eral Dag Hammarskjold to use
“unremitting efforts” to obtain the
release of the men and report
back to the Assembly by Dec. 31.
Britain gave the United States
strong support throughout, reflect-
ing here the vigorous denunciation
of Red China's action by British
Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony
Eden in the House of Commons.
France, Colombia. Australia, Ice-
land, Nationalist China, Thailand.
Ecuador and Cuba also voted for
GOODFELLOWS:
Each Day's
Mail Brings
New Pleas
“My husband is out of work.
1 have been sick and so is my
baby. My other children want some
toys..."
“My Daddy has just stopped
pulling boles and hasn't found an-
other job. We would be proud of
anything at Christmas..."
“I would like to have some cloth-
es for my baby,-some toys and
ahem and some food. I am a
widow..."
“Our bouse got burned and we
need your help this year...”
"I have five children and we
will not be able to get them any-
thing for Christmas. I was twice
in the hospital and we are still
paying the bill..."
Some Coats, Shoes
“will you please come and see
my little girls this year. I would
like to have some coats and shoes
for them to wear to school
There are just a few of the poig-
want appeals that pour in daily
to the Goodfellows. Pises far food,
warm clothing end shorn - essen-
tials all — fill most of the letters.
Only occasionally are there re-
quests for the trinkets and toys
that most of us take for granted
at Christmas time.
Each latter tells of hardship and
privation, of little children who
wouldn't believe to Santa Claus
if the Goodfellows didn't visit them.
Fortunately for three, some of
the letters addressed to the Good-
fellows contain checks or money
to help see that those to whom
the fates have not been so kind
will also know the joys of Christ-
mar
Helps Others at 70
And then there coma a truly
heart warming message like this:
“God has laid it on my heart
to help the underprivileged chil-
dren. I began buying print and
making It into dresses and shirts.
I have given away about 50 gar-
ments but yet have about 11 to give
some needy children. If you can
use these, please let me know at
once. Although in years old I find
happiness to doing for others.”
And many others - both young
and old — are also finding happi-
ness by helping the Goodfellows
bring Chriatmaa cheer to others.
A $10 gift from fee 50-50 Class
of Fairmont Methodist Church Mon-
day brought the total amount of
money received an far to $857.
PRICE DAILY 5e, SUNDAY 10c
Threatens
f Expressway Bid Fails
5
t.
DEATHS TRAIL FRONT
First Chill Blast
Claims 22 Lives
putting the case before the Assem-
bly. A
Airmen Called Spies
The Soviet Union and Czecho-
slovakia, branding the airmen as
“spies.”, voted against it Burma
and Syria abstained, saying the
cases should be taken up first by
the Korean Armistice Commission.
Lodge said five requests for action
by that group had been made and
nothing had happened.
Jacob A. Malik, Soviet ambas-
sador to Britain, assailed the
American request for Assembly
action and said it had been done
because someone had found it
necessary to find an incident to
increase international tension.
Lodge immediately answered
with a strong rejection of that
idea.
Know fee Wants Peace
“Most of those b this room
knew Dwight Eisenhower.” Lodge
said, “They know he wants peace.
They know that he and I, carrying
out his instructions here, don't
want to intensify the cold war."
Lodge lashed at the contention
of Malik and Jiri Nosek, Crecho-
slovak delegate, that the moa
were spies and had so confessed.
Lodge said that the Soviet ad-
mission that the men were cap-
tured ta uniform revealed “the
whole falsity of the Communist
stand.”
“When did a spy go around
dressed in the uniform of his
country?" Lodge demanded.
“When would a colonel, dressed
to his uniform, medals, decora-
tions, go to spy in China? This
shows hew the Communists insult
the intelligence of fee world. Let's
have a stop to this foolishness.”
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Women’s news........4-5
Oil news..............7
Obituaries............9.
Sports ..... 10-11
SECTIONB
Editerichs .............2
Comics ...............4
Ferm, markets ..........•
Radic-TV log.........10
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The season’s heaviest salvo of
bitter prewinter weather left the
nation's eastern half chilled Mon-
day after causing at least 22
deaths, directly or indirectly.
The villian of the weather drama
was a deep storm which spun its
way from Arkansas to Georgia and
out into the Atlantic.
It churned a wave of air tur-
bulence in its path, causing tor-
nadoes late Sunday near the
Alabama-Georgia line. The twist-
ers killed a child and injured at
least a persons.
Fronts Come Down
The big low pressure distur-
bance drew a flood of sharp, cold
winds south and east behind it
from Canada. The storm scattered
hail in its path, and in its wake
poured rain and snow copiously.
It smashed a fishing party's
cruiser on a lonely James River
beach early Monday and left two
members dead of exposure to
spray, snow and 26-degree winds.
The chill of the cold snap was
a primary factor hi a rash of fire
deaths during the weekend from
Illinois to Now England. Three
multiple tragedies were traced to
defective heaters.
Five Children
Numbered among tha dead were
five children at Franklin, Mass,
four elderly women at German-
town, Md., and a family of four
at Kewanee, III.
A woman died when her Ro
EPEE
near stekbeore. Men A honey
mooning couple were burned M
their wrecked car to East Lansing,
Mich.
The cold early Monday was
sharpest at Pelleston, Mich., where
a minimum of to degrees below
zero was recorded. The cold air
flaw dropped the minimum at
Jackson, Miss., a degrees under
the previous 24-hour low—to 31
degrees. Brownsville, Tex., saw a
mercury skid of 17 degrees hit
bottom at 53.
Somewhat warmer weather was
forecast for the Southern Plains
as southerly winds began, but the
prospect in moot of the northeast
quarter was for colder Monday
night and early Tuesday readings.
Old Forge, N.Y., reported an S
degree minimum. At Binghamton,
where the low was 7 degrees
above, the mercury had risen to
only U degrees by midafternoon.
The high pressure center of the
northern cold air mam centered
late Monday over the Great Lakes.
Snowfall reached 11 inches early
Monday e the new West Virginia
Turnpike, where autos stalled by
the score and more fortunate traf-
fic crawled. Rain hit much of the
East Coast Monday. It was mixed
with snow at Cape Hatteras, N.C.,
where the fall was .57 inch. Two
inches of snow sifted on Cape
Cod, making a 3-inch ground ac-
cumulation thorn. Boston had an
inch of snow.
MATH WAS IMPORTANT — J. E. Burnam, Hardin-Sim-
mons math teacher, left, was the man who coached Maj.
Gen. Oscar Senter in math for the important West Point
entrance examinations. They were recalling that time
Monday afternoon at the reception in Hotel Windsor.
Officials Favor
Road; Need Cash
Judge Reed Ingalsbe of Taylor County declared Mon-
day he'll resign if the county lets a $1,241,000 highway
bonanza slip through its fingers.
The sum was appropriated Saturday by the State High-
way Commission for a 22-mile portion of the U. S. Highway
80 freeway here.
“If for any reason Taylor County fails to take advantage
of the opportunity of half a century, I intend to resign in
protest,” the judge said.
Roberts, Commissioners Present
The statement was made in the presence of J. C. (Jake)
Roberts, district highway engineer, and the county’s four
commissioners.
The commissioners were sure they wanted the state
money spent here, but not so sure how- to get local money
for a right-of-way.
If the county doesn’t get the right-of-way question
settled in 120 days, the whole deal is off, the state has said.
The commissioners talked about three ways of raising
the local funds. The methods are: (1) Precinct 2 bond elec-
tion; (2) county-wide bond election; and (3) issuing county
warrants.
The chance of getting a Precinct 2 bond election passed
at present seems slim, Rufe Tittle, Merkel, Precinct 2 com-
missioner, said.
Tittle has said, “The people of Merkel want the high-
way, but they are bitterly opposed to the by-pass around the
north of Merkel." =
(Present plans for the ex-TSSTSCASote
pressway would m ove it FNNeh
about seven blocks farther a i B
north than the present Mer- =99-,
kel highway route.) "
The county commissioners M
agreed to delay action until the g s
next State Highway Commission cettnie
meeting, which may be this month she sense
STEPHENS ON TRIAL
State Builds Arson
Case on Gas Jars
Unemployed Male
Kills Well-Paid Wile
DETROIT, Dec. s in — A hus-
band, who told police he has not
had a job for two years, was held
today after admitting he stabbed
his wife to death last night be-
cause she would not give him an
allowance out of her $100 weekly
salary.
Robert Graves, 38, walked into
■ police station and told police
of the slaying. Police found the
body of his wife, Josephine, in
their apartment. She had been
stabbed 16 times. 2
Graves was booked for investi-
gation of murder.________________
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• MR. AND MRS. FRANK GRIMES, MAJ. GEN. AND MRS. OSCAR SENTER
... as the general and his wife are welcomed at Municipal Airport
SENTER AT BANQUET
General Links
Strength, Peace
High Court Rules
Mead’s Bread Co.
Must Pay $57,000
By GEORGIA NELSON
Reporter-News Staff Writer
Prosecuting attorneys built up
a strong circumstantial evidence
case Monday afternoon in 104th
District Court that the heme of
Wynn M Stephens burned as a
result of arson last March 1.
At 5:10 pm, after the state
rested, Stephens’ defense attorneys
started building another eircum-
stantial evidence case to show that
he was in Fort Worth when the
house burned and could not have
set fire to it.
guilty to the charge, took notes
to a shorthand notebook while the
state’s witnesses were testifying
but during the introduction of the
many exhibits he ceased writing
and watched intently as the ex-
hibits were produced.
For ‘Raising Worms’
Blackwood testified that after
the fire, when he questioned Steph-
ens, he at first denied any know-
ledge of them er having ever seen
them. Afterward, Blackwood said.
Stephens told him, “I know you
won’t believe this but I bought
SHOPPING DAYS
TO CHRISTMAS
Trial On One Count
Stephens is charged to a 3-count
indictment with arson, but to being
tried on only one of the counts
The 5-room frame residence to at
2605 South 25th St. It was not
completely destroyed but has been
appraised at nearly a 100 per cost
Penalty for conviction on a
charge of arson to » to 10 years
to the penitentiary, with ne sus-
pended sentence allowed, but adult
probation possible.
The state introduced in evidence
17 photographs showing eardboard
eartons found under the house, in u=umng-=,
the attic and in the garage. An of the gasoline
additional 2 state exhibits includ- *
ed many of the cartons and two
jars containing gasoline which
City Fire Marshal Len Blackwood
said were found in two “ the
eardboard cartons.
Stephens, who has pleaded nt
them (the eartons) to use in an
experiment at raising worms."
As a part of Stephens' defense,
attorney Bryan Bradbury put on
the stand Fred Olsen Jr., ef Fort
Worth, fish bait dealer and owner
of a minnow hatchery, to testify
that Stephens visited him and
inspected tea hatchery the day of
March 22.
Other state exhibits were a burn
ed piece of corrugated cardboard
box and a portion ent from the
living room rug which Bremen
said smelled strongly of gasoline
when they entered tea burned
"Lsang w * the introduction
of tee gasoline-filled cartons. Hat-
tie Stinchcomb, employe of Harris
Food Lockers, testified that a few
days before the fire occurred
Stephens bought a Sealright
Thermoren Containers and Freddie
See STATE, Pg. MA. Cel.8
THE WEATHER
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ANILENE AND Vicr
—imy
■sr—
By BOB PHILLIPS
Reporter-News Staff Writer
“We must never allow another
Pearl Harbor. We must never
weaken ourselves, either morally
or to armed strength, to the ex-
tent that we would invite attack
. 0 trn strength should
be the goal of eeck of us."
Thus did Maj. Gen. Oscar Baa-
tar. commanding general of the
Oklahoma City Air Materiel Area,
sum up his feelings and findings
about the role of the Air Force
m be spoke Monday night at a
Pearl Harbor Memorial dinner
sponsored by the 9615th Air Re-
serve Squadron of Abilene.
For the general B was more
than just another MM
WAbiene for the first time in
six years, and he paid special
tribute to Me step-father, Frank
Grimes, editor of the Abilene Re-
porter-News, “who bee been the
only ‘dad' I ever knew,' and to
. others he knew here.
Friends, Relatives Present
Among the friends and relatives
a MES pfezem was di aunt, bright-eyed
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Mrs. A. Holmberg of Dumont, with
whom he lived for about • year
when he was a small child, and
her eyes glowed with pride as she
listened to the general.
Referring to the same date 1
years ago, when a Japanese task
force sped through a Pacific night
with all ships’ lights out, and
Pearl Harbor was only a few hours
away by air. Gen. Senter recon-
structed the events leading up to
the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and
how the United States wen forced
WASHINGTON, D C., Dec. $ •
—The U.S. Supreme Court ruled
Monday that Head s Fine Bread
Co. must pay $57,000 treble dam-
ages award to L. L. Moore, who
formerly operated a bakery at
Santa Rosa, N. M.
The verdict had been set aside
by the U. S. Circuit Court to Den-
ver. Colo.
Thecout med eerhe
price-cutting by a business oper-
rating to interstate commerce to
destroy local businesses.
Moore claimed Mead’s, which
has one of its plants at Clovis,
N.. M., and another at Abilene,
Tex., and done an interstate bae-
iness, eat bread prices baton cost
to one town where he competed
and engaged solely in, intrastate
__. business. He won the $57,000 judge-
Boe SENTER, PE. H. edL. 1 ment against Mead.
was dropped « a Japanese city
August 9, 1945."
we then pointed oat the impor-
tance of the fact that, the Jap-
anese surrender came when not
one American soldier had set foot
on Japanese soil.
Reviewing the brief history of
the Air Force, he mentioned his
work w a weather officer, and
of seeing the changes as the Air
Force went from small planes to
intercontinental bombers and ef-
fective Sir Beata.
soared the Wand more
"I going over the military needs
or to January.
Last-Ditch Appeal
This will allow Merkel residents
to make a last-ditch appeal to the
thtmlA0"P
This action was taken during a
meeting Monday morning attended
by Roberts, the tour county com-
missioners and three Mortal resi-
dents, Lester Dorton, Ray Wilson
and Isadore Mellinger.
Dorton said the Merkel group
(including several dozen citizens)
has employed an Austin attorney,
John D. Cents. Ths state has noti-
fied Coats that Merkel residents
will be heard at the next State
Highway Commission meeting.
Dorton emphasized that Merkel
residents want the county to make
use of the $1,241,000. County com
meeting later with Roberts, ex-
pressed a similar wish.
The appropriation will cover the
freeway from Pioneer Dr. west of
Abilene to the completed overpass
straddling the Taylor-Nolan County
e ....
The highway department now
has right-of-way deeds to all of the
Precinct 1 right-of-way. This was
financed by a $700,000 bond issue
voted by Precinct 1 last fall. No
right-of-way has been acquired to
Precinct 2, except 0.5 of a mile at
ths county line for the overpass
west of Trent.
Tittle favored a Precinct 1 bond
election “at the proper time.”
He added, “If the election fails
to carry, I’m to favor of doing the
next best thing for the benefit of
the county. The tom alternatives
would be to have a county - wide
bond election, to to issue warrants
on the county. I went to get the
rood I wouldn’t want to use any
of the $700,000 bond issue which
was voted for work around Ab
Floyd Tate, Buffalo Gap. com-
missioner of Precinct 3, said, “I’m
opposed to a county = wide bond
election, because Precinct 1 has al-
ready voted ita bond issue. It is not
Dm JUDGE, re. SA, ca. s
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Yoshida
Resigns
BULLETIN
TOKYO, Tuesday, Dec. ? —The
Foreign Office announced today
that Prime Minister Shigeru Yos-
hida and his Cabinet had resign-
It spares the two conservative
parties, Yoshida’s Liberal and Hat-
oyama’s Democrats, the ordeal of
a general election which might see
an upsurge of Socialist power.
States Car
Bar Interstate
Truckers, High Court Hold
WASHINGTON, Dec. • Wn—States
are powerless to her from their
highways interstate truckers who
violate their laws,’including habit
ual overloading, the Supreme Court
ruled today.ee
The M decision, written by Jus-
tice Black, said only the Interstate
Commerce Commission can sus-
pend or revoke a permit granted
under the Federal Motor Carrier
into a global war.
“The war ended to it began-
to the air." the OCAMA com
_ mander continued, “A single atom
. bomb from an Air Fore 2,7g
* which had been outfitted for the to a
" salesied at Tinker Air Foree Base, earri
hours
date
Act.
The ruling thwarted efforts of
miauls to suspend Hayes Freight
Lines, ef Mattoon, Mil, as a re-
peeted violator of a state low sow
erning the load of trucks on its
* e dedwene
14 upend or revoke permits of
the atoto was not Meshed
in another important decision to
day the court upheld convictions
in four income tax evasion cases
in which the government sought
proof of tax liability on a showing
of the individual’s net worth.
Justice Clark wrote the opinions
in all four cases. The vote was 80
in three of them, but in the other
Justice Douglas dissented. .
Here is how the net worth
method works in a typical ease:
Revenue agents, having decided
a taxpayer’s records are inade-
quate m a basis for determining
income ton liability, attempt to
establish the taxpayer’s “opening
art worth" at the beginning of
a year.
The agents then prove increases
to the taxpayer's net worth for
each succeeding year during the
period under investigation and
calculate the difference between
the net value of “ the taxpayer's
assets at the beginning and end
of the years involved.
The taxpayer's nondeductible ex-
penditures, including living ex-
penses, are added to these in
creases. I the resulting figure for
any year is substantially larger
than the taxable income reported
by the taxpayer far that year,
the government claims tea acoeea
represents unreported income. *
“While we cannot say that the
pitfalls inherent in the net worth
method foreclose its use, they do
* *
Boy Is Saved
By Raft; Dad,
Friends Lost
POWELL. RIVER, B.C., Dec. s
un—Twelve - year - old Fred Holt
told tearfully today how he clung
to a flimsy raft to ice-cold water
four hours after a small tugboat
was cut in half by an Italian
freighter’s whirling propeller.
His fatter, George flott, 55; Gray
B. Levae, 50, Powell River port
superintendent; and George G.
Crooks, so, all of Powell River,
were missing and believed lost.
The boy was on the docks Sat-
urday night when the 7,000-ton
freighter Giovanni Amedola called
for a pilot.
He persuaded his father, a re-
lief skipper on the tug Teeshoe,
to let him go along as they took
out the pilot. They reached the
freighter and then started back
ashore.
“Then there was a crash and
splintering,” he recalled. ‘‘I think
we must have got under the
freighter’s propeller because, she
was unloaded and high out of the
water.”
Either his father or Levae put
a lifebelt over the boy’s head and
he and Levae got a raft over-
board. The last he saw of his
father was an attempt with
Crooks to launch a lifeboat.
A wave washed them off the
raft, and Levae disapepared. The
raft capsized about midnight, but
he struggled back aboard. Be lost
consciousness, but later swam to
an island eight miles north of
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