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VOL. LXXIV, NO. sa
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ABILENE, TEXAS, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 32, MM —TEN PAGES IN ONE SECTION
PRICE DAILY 5e, SUNDAY 10c
Ike Men Rapped
On Dixon-Yates
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. UP-
Some of President Eisenhower’s
key officials were accused of "de-
ception and concealment" and
“contempt of Congress" today by
three senators who have been in-
vestigating the Dixon-Yates power
contract.
The senators, Kefauver (D-Tenn)
O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) and Langer
(R-ND), said their inquiry has
raised questions of “honesty and
uprightness in government” and
added:
“The investigation is not com-
plete.”
In a 10,000 word interim report,
the three senators criticized Ei-
senhower’s top assistant, Sherman
Adams, and the heads of several
federal agencies, saying:
“One of the shameful things
about the Dixon - Yates deal is
the way the President's staff sp-
parently has played fast and loose
with the facts even where he (the
President) is concerned.”
Cancellation Ordered
Eisenhower ordered the Dixon-
Yates contract for a private power
plant cancelled after more than
a year of congressional skirmish-
ing between advocates of public
and private power development.
He took this action after the
city of Memphis announced it
would build a generating plant to
supply its own needs rather than
accept power from the proposed
Dixon-Yates project across the
river in Arkansas.
Initially the President had di-
rected the Atomic Energy Com-
mission to contract with the Dixon-
Yates utility group to supply power
for the Tennessee Valley Authority
to replace current taken by ASC
for atomic projects.
Kefauver is chairman and O’-
Mahoney and Langer are members
of an antitrust and monopoly sub-
committee of the Senate Judiciary
Committee. They made public
their report to Chairman Kilgore
(D-WVa) of the parent group.
“The Dixon-Yates deal was a
usurpation of congressional re-
sponsibilities and functions,” the
report said. “It was a deliberate
effort to reverse power policy in
the Tennessee Valley by devious,
indirect and improper administra-
five practices.
Report Quoted
“Misuse of independent agencies,
suppression, concealment, half-
truths and misrepresentation have
followed as chain consequences,
each misstep leading to the next.
“Documents before the commit-
tee, as well ss specific actions to
circumvent Congress and to keep
information from Congress and the
public, indicate an attitude of con-
tempt toward Congress, and to-
ward democratic processes and the
fundamental rights of citizens in
a democracy which is politically
unhealthy.”
Texan Gives
Denies Credit
In Senate
183 Dead in Floods;
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 W-
Majority Leader, Lyndon B. John-
son (D-Tex) today credited the
Democratic-controlled Senate with
passing “about 30 per cent more
bills to 30 per cent less time.”
Johnson, convalescing from a
heart attack suffered July 2, com-
pared the record of his party’s con-
trol during the session just ended
with the 1958 session when Repub-
licans ran ths Senate.
His statement for the Democrat-
ic Policy Committee was a rebuttal
to Republican contentions that the
recent session under Democrats
was a “let’s-put-it-off Congress.”
Johnson said the session had a
“can-do” record.
He listed 1,393 measures reported
by the committee and 1,325 passed
by the Senate this year compared
with 969 and 848 two years ago.
Of these measures 880 became
laws this year aa against 515 two
years ago, he said.
Even more important than the
statistics, Johnson said "is the fact
that the character of this session
was one of calm, cool delibera-
tion.”
D
Climbs
Nation's Worst
In Two Decades
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Northeast’s worst floods receded Sunday and left
an awesome record of destruction, disorder and death.
The known dead climbed to 183 as rescue workers
groped in silt-clogged homes and along riverbanks.
The toll appeared certain to go well over 200 before
the grim count waa ended.
Two states—Connecticut and Pennsylvania—each esti-
mated as many as 60 persons still missing.
In terms of men, women and children who were swept
beneath the rushing waters to drown, it waa the nation's
worst flood in nearly 20---------------------------
H SU BACCALAUREATE
Dr. James Urges
Christian Thinking
demands sion, short sightedness, proxy
thinking, circumscribed thought,
destructive thinking, and godless-
years. A as
Property damage was equally CommuniCC
staggering in the eight seaboard VIllIIIIlIl
states slashed by floods, the leg-
acy of Hurricane Diane. T.
Not until Sunday, as brooks I A KOTUTT
streams and rivers sank back into v RtwAsE ■ •
their normal beds, was the full .
measure of havoc clear. Il r
Estimates, or guesses, of the |
damage ran to well over a billion
dollars. SEOUL, Monday, Aug. a •—
Whole towns were left ravaged,The Communists wifi return tomor-
cut off and demoralized.row a seriously injured U. 8. flier
Today’s generation
Christians who will think for them-
selves, think for God, think for
others, and think as Jesus thought.
Dr. E. S. James told Mb Hardin-
Simmons University degree can-
didates in Sunday baccalau-
reate services conducted in the
First Baptist Church at 11 a.m.
Degrees will be awarded to the
graduates at commencement exer-
cises in the First Baptist Church
at 10 a.m. Monday.
Mrs. R. L. Mathis of Waco, pres-
ident of the Women’s Missionary
Union of Texas,” will be speaker
for the occasion, and will receive
the honorary doctor of laws de-
gree from Hardin-Simmons. She
will be the first woman ever to
receive the honorary doctorate
from the school and the first to
deliver a commencement address
JOSEPH JONES
. - , new rank
Abilene Army
Reservists
Promoied
When a group of Abilene Army
reservists returned home from
Fort Hood this week end, two new
lieutenant colonels accompanied
the officers and men.
One was the Abilene detachment
commander, Clyde Emmons, the
other Joe Jones.
Jones, 39, is one of the original
officers which formed this city's
first active reserve unit after
World War II. In September, 1954,
Jones was named commanding of-
ficer of Detachment 3, 4005th Anny
Reserve Service Unit here but lat-
or moved to Fort Worth and gave
up the post. Upon his return to
Abilene several months ago he
again was assigned to the 4005th.
Jones had been a major since
late in World War II. He has 14
years total reserve end active duty
time, having served five years
with the Army engineers during
World War n.
Pacific Service
for the university.
Dr. James, editor of the Baptist
Standard, reminded graduates
that “thinking precedes all accom-
plishment” in his exposition of
“Jesus and the Human Intellect.”
The Dallas religious journalist list-
ed “six grave dangers in twentieth
century thinking” as those of omis-
ness.
“As the epitome and the em-
bodiment of truth, Jesus is the
center of all Christian intellectual
processes,” the speaker pointed
out in listing truth and honesty as
two elemental principles of right
thinking. Other Christian charae-
teristics be enumerated as purity,
loveliness, justice, and help-
aramenus
the group. Speaking to today’s con-
troversy on racial desegregation,
he advised that “regardless of
your color, keep white on the in-
side.” Character he defined as
“the most lovely thing m , the Carl Duffield ^ w' of Tyler,
world, adding that without “president of Lester and Duffield,
man san animal, dester the Inc., Abilene oil firm, collapsed
Dr. Elwin I. Skiles, pastor of le and died of a heart attack Satur-
First Baptist Church, pronounced day in - waiting room at Mid.
the invocation. The benediction way Arpou i deneo.
was given by W. A.Stephereon, The Tyler oilman, who centered
university assistant dean. Mrs. the vast operations of his firm in
Jerry Shaw Neame E Abilene in the 1940‘s, was traveling
“Come Ye Blessed” preceding alone from Winnipeg, Canada, to
the baccalaureate sermon, " his home.
SEARCH FOR FLOOD VICTIMS CONTINUES — Army and civilian telephone en-
gineers keep in touch with searchers in helicopters as they scanned the area around
East Stroudsburg, Pa., for flood victims. A bridge crossing * stream between East
Stroudsberg and Stroudsberg was one of those swept away by the flood carrying ve-
hicles with it. Nearby at Camp Davis, search was under way for some 40 campers be-
lieved swept downstream by the rain-swollen rivers. (AP Wirephoto)
AT CHICAGO AIRPORT
ead of Abilene
Odessa Youth
—.walrtusnn.asrsnnsganr.aqe Drowns
Oil Company Dies in Colorado
Duffield was awaiting another
MADE WAY TO ABILENE Braniff flight to Dallas after he
----------------------——---------------I missed his scheduled flight be-
Family Separated 19 Yean =--
•The company of Lester and Duf-
AgobyAdoptionMeels Her=======
* ■ ■ __. ____thirties were centered in the
separated 19 years ago by adop-East Texas Field
tion. . .... „ Lester and Duffield staked its
Don Johnson, 20-year-old Hardin- first venture in this area in 1941
Simmons University junior, was when the Wimberly Pool north of
the third brother who was adopted Tye in Taylor and Jones County
19 years ago by a Hamlin family, was opened.
Joe, a former all-district defen- This project was successful and
rive halfback at AbileneHigh the Wimberly pool gradually be.
School, is the adopted son of Mr. came an important part of the
and Mrs. L. Cori Moore, 1525 company’s holdings
Chestnut St. Office Here
By BURTON TANCO •
Reporter-News Staff Writer
Mutual friends of ■ Hardin-Sim-
mons University senior and a 23-
year-old poet resident frequently
remarked that the two resembled
each other in appearance.
Jos Moore, 21, of 1525 Chestnut
St., and Tommy Graham of Poet
were brothers, although the
friends did’t know it — and nei-
ther did the brothers.
Nor did Joe know, until his dis-
covery of the relationship, that
his sister, Vivien Graham, 25, also
was a resident of Poet
Happy Reunion
This was the reason for ths hap-
py reunion last weekend in Abi-
lene of four children who were
Colonel Jones was in the Pacif-
to 28 month during the war with
an aviation engineer unit assigned
largely to building airstrips. He par-
ticipated in four campaign and
won the Bronze Star for meri-
torious service in connection with
oprerations in the Phillipines.
Jones and Chuck Moser, Abilene
High School football coach, Ploy-
ed together on the University of
Missouri football team. Jones grad-
uated in 1940 and participated in
the college boxing program as well
as fighting in the Golden Gloves.
He is a native of Whittier, Calif,
and played high school football
there.
Jone served all his commission-
ed time during the war with the
836th Engineer Aviation Battalion.
He was company commander, bat-
talion operations officer, executive
officer and finally commanded the
unit. He took the 836th to Japan
after the war ended for occupa-
tion duty.
Before being commissioned, he
served in the 40th Division before
: sartor.
Big Spring Airman
Killed at Practice
BIG SPRINGS, Tex. Aug. 21 W
An airman making practice runs
to fire department exercises at
Webb Air Force Base today was
killed when n fire truck cab door
swung open and he was thrown
to the pavement.
The Air Force identified him as
A. 2. C. Eduardo Rodriquez, 20,
El Paso. Rodriquez would have
been 21 Tuesday. His skull was
fractured by the fall to the pave-
ment near an air base hangar.
His El Paso address waa given
as 252 S. Valverde Ave.
New Island Appears
Courtesy of Volcano
HONOLULU, Aug. B A Navy
transport plane commander said
today a submarine volcano pushed
a new island above the surface of
the Pacific Saturday about 375
miles northwest of Honolulu.
“At 10,000 feet we could nee two
to three square miles of bubbling,
smoking water,” reported Cmdr.
Thomas W. Heath, 45, Martins-
ville, Va.
Similar Football Style Many of the firm’s operations
Joe's football running style are handled now through its office
was a factor in the discovery of in the Bacon Building. The firm
his relationship to Tommy, a for- has played a big part in opening
mer high school player at Post, new fields and developing produc-
Seated with a friend in a footban tion.
stadium one day, Tommy watched T ..
Joe scampering down the field. His to Abilene in 1946 to look after
companion turned to him and the wells in this territory.
said: Among new discoveries credited
“Tommy, that guy runs like you to the company are the Willis Con-
This incident coupled with fre-nas 1 Wall
quent remarks concerning the sim- Wreck AHlic
farity in appearance of the two TV I Von AS
brothers led to the investigation
which disclosed the relationship, na F Ban
Tommy, a student at Abilene | land FOHOr
Christian College for 24 years, of LOTV LUIIvl
ton saw his brother in action on
the gridiron. LLANO, Tex., Aug. 21 in—Tom
“It certainly is a coincidence,” W. Collins, 25, editor of the Llano
says Mrs. Moore, "that an the chil-News, was killed in an auto ac-
eventually made their way to cident about 1 a.m. today seven
Abilene.” miles from Fredericksburg on the
a----Fredericksburg-Liano highway. Of-
WEATUED ficers said he apparently fell
WEATREK asleep at the wheel.
-------------------------------Collins, survived by his parents,
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Mr. and Mrs. Win Collins of Llano,
ANILEAT AND VCMTA cr be was planning * return * Univer-
coming cloudy in the afternoons. Mend?” sity of Texas this fall for his
ETA CH , a de senior year. He was a veteran of
3 be in the low Low Monday mieht the Korean War.
___His father to publisher of ths
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glomerate Field of Haskell County,
the Southwest Box Gardner Sand
Gas Distillate Field of Taylor
County and the Doty Bluff Creek
and King Sand Fields of Jones
County.
Trained Dogs, Horses
The senior Duffield had practi-
cally retired. In recent years he
spent most of his time training
dogs and horses.
He won the National Amateur
Field Trials championship three
years and had the top five-gaited
horse in the United States in 1953.
He also was named “Dog Breeder
of the Yeer for 1953.
The Tyler man’s dogs had won
prizes at some of the nation’s top
dog shows. In 1952 and 1953 his
Commander’s Hightone Beau won
the national amateur quail cham-
pionships.
The younger Duffield has
managed the entire company from
his Abilene office, although his fe-
ther was still president of the firm
at the time of his death.
Mr. Lester died in 1938, and his
wife took over his ehare of ths
firm.
Duffield’s son was flying to
Chicago from Canada. The body
will be flown back to Tyler for
funeral services.
Duffield also is survived by his
widow, his daughter-in-law of Abi-
STERLING, Colo., Aug. n1 on
—Lymon Elliot Brodnax, 17, Torn
Green St, Odessa, Tex., drowned
in M feet of water at North Ster-
ling Reservoir IJ miles northwest
of here Saturday afternoon.
Authorities said the mishap oc-
curred while the youth, son of Mrs.
William Brodnax, was swimming
with six other teen-aged boys and
girls.
Rescuers, using grappling hook
and diving equipment, recovered
the body about an hour and a half
later.
Sondra Holder, U. South Ster-
ling, an eyewitness, said young
Brodnax dived from a rowboat in
an attempt to swim 75 feet to
shore. He suddenly screamed for
help, threw his arms in the air
and sank, she said,
Kenneth Lane, U, Odessa, tried
to rescue young Brodnax, but the
drowning youth fought him off.
Lane told authorities.
Torrington, Conn., an industrial
city of 28,000, had millions of dol-
lars in damage.
Dozens of stores were crushed
into matchwood. Bridges disap-week,
peared. Three persons were killed. Lt Guv H Bumpas Tason
The city had practically no com-„ . Bumpas, Jackson,
munications with the outside world. Miss., suffered • cracked skull, the
It was in a state of emergency. Communists said. The Reds told
Aid station were set up to feed a Military Armistice Commission
and house the homeless. meeting yesterday. Capt. Charles
A schoolyard became an emer-W. Brown, Louisville, Ky., was
gency landing field for helicopters killed.
bringing in vital supplies.The Communists readily admit-
Normalcy Ends ted shooting down the plane. Dur-
All commercial life and normal ing an angry session of the com-
living conditions to Putnam, Conn., mission, they insisted it was over
came to a temporary end. Ite tee- North Korea to spy on military in-
toriae were ruined — gutted tor
both raging floods and fire fed by
exploding magnesium.
“We’re don. This valley is
and the body of an Army captain
whose plane was shot down by the
Reds near the neutral zone last
checked South Karra
See FLOOD, Pg. 9, Col. 6
Fire Hits Rolan
Lumber Building
ROTAN, Aug. 21 VRNS) - Fire,
whipped by strong south winds,
swept through the P&O Lumber Co.
south of the business district in Ro-
ton late Sunday evening.
Offices of the firm and the
warehouse in which the lumbar
was stored were housed within the
metal structure.
The blase apparently started
from within the building and had
swept through the entire structure,
according to late reporte received
here.
Dave Posey and Jim O'Briant,
fanners in the Rotan area, are own-
ore of the lumber company. Sun-
day's blaze marked the second time
within three years that the firm
building had been damaged by fire
An informed source said that
Brown, an observer on the small,
unarmed trainer plane, actually
was checking South Korean mili-
tary positions for any sign of a
buildup. South Korea has been
threatening to seize Red territory
northwest of Seoul.
Maj. Gen. Harlan C. Parks, sen-
ior Allied delegate on the commis-
sion, followed up a written protest
with a face-to-face denunciation of
the Communists.
“This brutal and inhumane act
of your side,” he said, “in which
you have again displayed your con-
temptible disregard for the value
of human life will only serve to
shock the free world into a more
realistic appraisal of your sinister
motives.
Propaganda Blasted
“It completely belies and pulls
the shrouds from your spoken
propaganda of peaceful intentions,
good will and genuine desire to re-
lax the tensions to this part of
the world."
Parks charged that Brown was
tone, end three granddaughters,
— Carlene, 8, Linda, 7, and Betty Sue,
Duffield’s son, C. E. Jr. moved s.
General of 5th
Army to Retire
CHICAGO, Aug. v ub—Lt. Gen.
Hobart R. Gay, who rose through
the ranks in 38 years service, re-
linquished command of the 5th
Army Saturday.
Gen. Gay departed for Ft. Bliss,
Tex, where he will retire Aug. 31.
Falls From Truck
Cheo Rivera of 873 Sycamore St.
suffered injuries in a fall from a
truck at the traffic circle in East
Abilene about 4:50 p.m. Saturday,
according to Abilene police.
Driver of the truck was A. B.
Bateman of Fort Worth, an em-
ploye of the Fort Worth Pipe Co.
‘murdered by a gang of trigger-
happy gunners whs profess to be
upholders of poece, staunch de-
fenders of the armistice agreement
end ardent humanitarians.”
Parks demanded the immediate
release of Bumpas. He offered to
send a helicopter or to dispatch a
Swiss doctor from the Neutral Na-
tions Supervisory Commission. The
Communists refused.
Funeral will be at 4:30 p.m.
Monday at Buttery Funeral Born
to Llano. Burial will be to the
Llano cemetery. \
Rain at Rotan
ROTAN, Aug. 21 (RNS) - Light
showers fell in the Rotan area
| Sunday evening, with 15 of an
inch of moisture measured west
I and southwest of here.
4
Violence Claims
• Over Weekend
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Death had a slow weekend to
Texas as violence claimed only
nine lives by Sunday. Traffic killed
eight.
Don Howard, 12-year-old caddy,
was killed at the Amarillo Country
Club Saturday when a golf ball
struck him on the temple.
Mrs. Esther Lee Greening. 32,
Houston, was killed Friday night
when streak by a car while walk-
ing on the Hemstead highway.
A two-car crash near Madison-
ville Saturday killed three persons.
They were identified as Mrs. Ester
Gibbs, 43, Wichita Falls; London
F. Felder, 22, Old Washington;
and Sam Ferguson, 64, Houston.
An unidentified Negro soldier
was killed to a two-ear crash near
Cypress Saturday.
Howard Dean Bryan, 16, Dim-
mit, was killed Saturday when an
auto overturned near Stafford.
Lee Schuman, 24, died Sunday of
injuries to a two-car collision on
a form - to - market road near
Electra Saturday.
Tom W. Collins, 25, Llano, was
killed early Sunday morning when
the car he was driving overturned
on the highway between Frederick
I burg and Llano.
PLANES, TANKS IN BATTLE
Nationalist Revolt Leaves
600 Dead in North Africa
CASABLANCA, Morocco, Aug. 21
(—French planes and tanks fought
today to put down a bloody Na-
tionalist insurrection in North Af-
rica that left more than 600 dead
over the weekend.
Deed and mutilated bodies
were strewn from lonely outposts
in Eastern Algeria is the smoulder-
ing Moroccan village of Oued Tern,
about 100 miles southeast of Casa-
blanca, where many of the French
population were massacred Satur-
day by rioting Nationalists The
dead included many children.
The uprisings came on the sec-
ond anniversary of the French
ouster at pro-Nationalist Moham-
med Ben Youssef as sultan of Mo-
rocco and his replacement by aging
Mohammed Ben Arafa.
French and Moroccan leaders
were en route to a conference to
France designed to ease the ten-
sion.
Battle to Process
A bettie was still being waged
today at Khenifra, 30 miles south
of Ousd Zem and 180 miles inland
*
from Casablanca. There, at the
foot of the rugged Atlas Mountains,
thousands of Berber tribesmen
swept down on the town Saturday
and ransacked part of it before
French parachute troops sod div-
ing fighter planes arrived and
drove off the rebels.
The dead at Khenifra were esti-
mated at 100 for both sides as the
tribesmen returned to the fight to-
day There were no reports on the
progress of the struggle.
The American air bases in Mo-
rocco were apparently untouched
by the weekend violence, and no
Americans were reported harmed.
Americans had been warned to
stay st home and out of sight.
An uprising in and around Con-
stantine, in Northeast Algeria, ob-
viously was timed in sympathy
with the Moroccan riots. Thors the
death toll was estimated at 459
French and Algerians. This was
regarded as a conservative figure.
The vast majority of the victims
were Algerian rebels. Sixty-nine
Europeans — mainly troops —
were reported killed.
Constantine was kept calm today
under tight police and military
control. But a massive roundup
was in progress, and about 600 per-
sons were put under heavy uard.
They included many rebels cap-
tured in the fighting
Eyewitnesses of the massacre
described the scene nt Oued Zem
as one of unimaginable horror:
women and children were mutilat-
ed and burned.
Rebels in Oued Zem and tribee-
men from tbs nearby mountain
killed at least 10 French residents,
by official count other reports put
the figure at so Moroccan loyal
to the French also were slaugh
tered.
Tough French foreign legion-
naires finally reached Oued Zem
and pushed the tribesmen back
into the hills. The rebels carried
off many of their dead. How many,
nobody knew. An official said
there were certainly several hun-
dred killed.
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