Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 193, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1946 Page: 1 of 8
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THE WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Continued fair
and not much change in tempera
lure. I<ow this morning, 70 degrees.
High yesterday was 103 degrees.
49th Year
Ir
Sweetwater Reporter
Raul and Jonathan were lovely
and pleasant in their lives, and in
their death they were not divided:
they were swifter than eagles, they
were stronger than lions.
—II Samuel 1:33.
"Dedicated to Service
"Buy it In Sweetwater"
No. 193
Continuous Full Leased United Press Wire Service
^ Sweetwater, Texas, Thursday, August 15, 1946
WORlp-VMDC
EXPOSED IN JOINT POLICE RAI
Byrnes Reminds Russia Of US polk^hit*
MEAT INDUSTRY HEADS AT DECONTROL HEAItiNO—Officials of the meat industry at-
tending the current OPA Decontrol Hoard hearings in the Senate Caucus room in Washington,
chat with Senator Tom Coiinaily, Democrat from Texas. Left to right: Joseph G. Montague,
Council, Texas and Southwest Cattle Kaiser, Ft. Worth, Texas; Senator Tom Connolly; Col. J.
A. Taylor, Joint Livestock Committee, Ainarillo, Texas; and A. A. Smith, Sterling, Colorado, rep-
resenting the American National Livestock Association. (XEA Telephoto)
Swater Building Leased For
New Wholesale Grocery Firm
Harley Sadler Denies Rumors That Me Is
.Supporting Either Candidate For Governor
Palestine Problem
Grows Steadily To
Maximum Violence
HAIFA (U.R)—The most tick-
lish situation in Europe is the
Palestine problem, which has
been growing steadilv more scri-
.j^ous. Latest reports from .1 emb-
lem say 800 .Jewish refrgees, in-
cluding 37 expectant mothers,
arrived in the port of Haifa to-
day.
Other illegal immigrants who
have sailed to Palestine have
been turned back to Cyprus and
the .Jews are particularly up in
arms because two children a-
mong the refugees died last
night.
£ Witnesses of the latest boat to
arrive say conditions are "dread-
ful." The .Jewish agency is not
allowed to contact the refugees,
but British officers and doctors
are expected to hoard the ship.
police in Palestine also have
their hands full today.
.Jewish underground broad-
casts already are calling for a
general revolt against the new-
British immigration policy. Mys-
- terious telephone calls have
0 warned that the municipal build-
ing and central post office in
.Jerusalem are in danger of be-
ing blown up.
To climax the situation, the
verdict in the case of 22 young
Jews accused of attacking the
Haifa railway depot will be an-
nounced today. Observers say it'
the British Military Court im-
poses tough sentences on the
youths anything can happen. Au-
g See PALESTINE Page Fight
Harley Sadler, member of the
j State Legislature, denied rum-
I ors Thursday that he had endors-
ed either candidate for governor
I of Texas.
Mr. Sadler told a Sweetwater
; Reporter representative that he
had been quoted as supporting
one of the candidates for gover-
nor "This," said Mr. Sadler, "is
! not true, as I do not wish to be-
, lmiil involved in the contro-
versy over the race for gover-
nor."
He further said: "I' will
work with either one of the
men that the voters choose
to elect as their governor."
Mr. Sadler's statement, given
to the Reporter, to United Press
land also sent to the Dallas News,
follows:
"1 noticed a statement in the
press where one of the guberna-
torial candidates stated that 1
! endorsed his tax plan and felt
as he did that no new taxes will
be necessary to carry out his pro-
gram.
•'I was active in Jerry Sadler's
campaign during the July pri-
maries but as a potential candi-
date for Speaker of the 50th Ses-
sion of the Legislature. I have
taken no part in the run-off cam-
paign nor will 1 presume to tell
any one whom they should sup-
port, but the voters of Texas
with whom 1 have talked are
desirous of better salaries for
our school teachers, especially
the rural teachers and 1 believe
that the people of Texas want a
bigger and more effective health
program, more farm-to-market
roads, a definite and clarified
old age assistance program that
will allow the mandate of the
■ SADLER Page 2
W. H. .lobe, warehouse owner
and operator here, has announc-
ed that his 50 x 120 two-story
brick warehouse at 600 Ash has
been leased to the J. R. Beadel I
company to house a new whole-!
sale grocery business here.'
Mr. Beadel. employed for a
number ot years as a buyer with j
the Walker-Smith company, has
; signed the first contract to lease I
| the premises for a period of five !
years. He hopes to employ over,
20 local persons here.
The company has several other
| locations in West Texas, and the
; Sweetwater house will he the
distributing center for this area,
i A* ' present the warehouse is oc-
cupied with wool storage, but
| the new company will begin op-
eration shortly after Sept. I.
Headquarters of the company
j is Brownwood.
1,500 Pay Tribute To
Nolan County Veterans
.?
By Marian Pendergrass
Fifteen hundred citizens of No-
lan county paid tribute to HO ser-
vicemen who gave their lives
during World War II on the first
anniversary of victory last night
at he Mustang Bowl.
"Our nation, our community,
Sweetwater and Nolan county
have paid dearly for victory over
the forces of aggression and the
precious privilege of living as a
free and independent people."
said Ed Mays in an opening ad-
dress.
"May the forces of hate and
greed that now seek to destroy
us from without and envy and
distrust that threaten us from
within," Mays continued, "find
America willing and able to <lo-
ft nd herself against all of her
enemies."
Opening the mass memorial
service was a parade, led by the
Sweetwater high school band.
Taking part was a color guard of
the Texas State Guard, Boy
Scouts, Girl S'jouts, Veterans and
Civic club groups.
National Anthem was sung by
the audience with band accom-
paniment and invocation by Bev.
P. E. Shewbert, the flag was
lowered by the Texas State
Guard detachment as Retreat,
To The Colors, was sounded by
Theresa Respess, trumpeter. The
church call followed.
Singing of "America" preced-
ed the citation of World War II
| dead by Post Adjutant Leon But-
| ler of the American Legion. The
list included only those boys
i who died during the actual con-
flict. Several have since died in
tin service of their country.
Those recognized by Butler
were: Jose A. Alcala, Norman P.
Alston. Walter P. Anderson, Jr..
Hubert Anthony, Odis L. Apple,
Jr.. James W. Barkley, Johnny
C. Belt, Oscar A. Bennett, James
Lee Berry, Winston J. Bradford,
j Arlin W. Brown. Deverle Brown,
| Fai l A. Bryant, William R. Bur-
j kett, 11. C. Chapman, Roy Clay,
| Jr., Valton C. Clayton, Chester
\. rain. Edward E. Davis, Neat
I C. Davis, Jr.
Ollie G. DismuKe, Jess W. Doo-
ley, Troy Dooley, Sie S. Fd-
Wards, Jack C. Elliston, Forest
F. Gartman, Raymond George,
Leroy Glesler. James V. Gillen-
water, Thomas T. Gillilan, Thom-
as P. Glass, Ernest W. Hagar,
James A. Hall, David Hanks, Al-
fred C. Harris, Lee R. Hill. Har-
old G. Hudgins, Robert L. Hyde,
William D. Johnson, Matias M.
Jaurcz.
Marion William Justiss, J. R.
Klser, Kenneth B. Lance, James
F. Lawhon, James F. J.eaeh.
[■'red H. Leohard, Anton Mack,
Raymond W. May, ,J. C. McCoy,
Quinn L. McKelvey, James W.
Moore, Homer G. Neithereutt,
Troy W. Norris, Philip J. Ochoa,
Dav'ton S. O'Keefe, Willie W.
See TRIBUTE Page Four
Great Lakes Strike
Ties Shipping Of
Major Commodities
CHICAGO (U.R; — Great Lakes
shipping is being tied up as the
j CIO National Maritime stiikc
continues.
The walkout of 1100 Wit'
numbers at midnight last night
has been reinforced by picket |
lines in principal lakeside ports
such as Chicago, Frie. Buffalo.
Cleveland. Duluth and Detroit
; Both CIO and AF of 1. unions
have agreed to respect, the picket
lines. And there's a good chance
I that the strike over a union de-
i mand for shorter hours will
slow up much of midwestern
; heavy industrv.
Government officials say a
: prolonged lakes shipping tie-up
would affect the national eco-
i iiuniy as seriously as last spring's
'coal strike. Iron, steel and auto-
mobile companies especially
would feel the pinch. Great Lakes
freighters of special design carry
iron ore (rom northern lake
ports such as Duluth to steel
■ centers along the southern
i coastline of the lakes.
Chief Executive
Goes To Sea For
17 Day Vacation
I WASHINGTON —(U.R) — The
("white house announces that
j President Truman is going on a
I cruise on the presidential yacht
| Williamsburg. He'll leave Wash
| ington tomorrow with only his
| immediate staff for IT days ot
sailing into the Naragansett Bay
area and off the coast of Maine.
The yacht will be escorted by
the USS Weiss, a converted des-
troyer escort, which will carry
reporters and photographers.
No public appearances have
been scheduled, but the president
expects to go ashore in New
England several times.
Meanwhile, the president has
finished most of his work on
some 200 billij passed on to him
by the 7!)th congress for final ac-
tion.
Last night he signed legisla-
tion for further study of the
basic laws and principles of agri-
culture. It provides extensive re-
search of the use of farm pro-
ducts and improvement of mar-
keting services. The president
also signed the farmers home
corporation act, aimed at stream-
lining administration of the gov-
ernment's agricultural credit
and related activities.
Secretary Says Red
Delegation Twists
American Motives
PARIS (U.R)—Secretary of State
Byrnes again has accused Russia
of misrepresenting American ob-
jectives in writing peace treaties
for defeated European nations.
Byrnes says we seek no terri-
tories or reparations from the
defeated countries. He told dele-
gates they were in Paris to pro-
mote an endurable peace rather
than to increase dissention a-
mong nations. •
In a sharp clash with Foreign
Minister Molotov, Byrnes noted
that all of the former Axis states
had been systematically pene-
trated by Germany. He asked
whether it was not proposed that
another country should be sub-
stituted for Germany ps the an-
chor of their economy. This was
an obvious reference to the So-
viet Union. Byrnes added:
"It is out of such arrange-
ments that economic enslave-
ment arises."
As a parting shot, the
American secretary said lie
objected to Russia giving the
impression that other former
enemy countries were more
democratic than Italy just
because they have harmoniz-
ed their views to those of the
Soviet I'nion.
Russia's Andrei Vishinsky
took the floor and announced!
that Molotov would answer j
Byrnes in detail at the proper!
time and place. However, he
took the time to defend Russian
policy, calling it consistent, but
also realistic.
The Soviet newspaper Pravda ■
has had a few sharp words to
say about Byrnes. It has accus-
ed the American representative
of trying to boss the peace con-
ference.
In another report, I'ravda
hints that Itussia may ask
the L'.V to take up the mat-
ter of HrtisJi troop movement
in Iraq, along the southern
border of Iran. The paper
charges that tlie liriitsh ac-
tion is incompatible with
Iran's sovereign rights.
While Premier Georgiev and
the Ukrainian Premier were
pleading the new Bulgaria's ease,
Messers Byrnes, Bevin and Bi-
dault must have had some re-
•fleetions of their own about the
new Bulgaria for the day's news
budget brought several interest-
ing dispatches from Sofia, the'
Bulgarian capital.
One dispatch said a Bulgarian
editor had been sentenced to 10
months in jail for an article;
eritizing the government. An-
other said the Red Army in Bul-
garia was preparing to purge
the last non-Communist from
the Bulgarian government, in-
cluding several generals who
helped the Russians drive out :
the Germans. Still another dis- i
patch said 170(1 Bulgarian Army
officers had been fired at the
behest of the Communist.
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DIES AT 108
READSTOWN, WIS., (U.R) — 1
Little Mrs. Ellen O'Lear.v Boyle!
died yesterday—just one day af-
ter she celebrated her lOSth
birthday.
NEW SECRET W FA POX—
Army Air Forces announced
that this heretofore secret
guided missle, designed as a
potential defense against pos-
sible attack by high-speed,
high altitude enemy aircraft,
has been fired for the first
time. Known as the "GAPA"
(Ground to air pilotless air-
craft) the missle. when per-
fected, will be capable of
seeking out and destroying
possible enemy weapons be-
fore they can reach their
targets. The "GAPA" is a
pencil-slim projectile Ill-feet
ill length and is pictured
taking off during tests at
Wendover Field, Vtali.
I XEA Telephoto from .Army
Air Forces).
Selective Service
Reports Six 1 -A s,
Eleven Discharges
Six l-A classifications and 11
discharges have been announced
by the selective service:; board.
Those classified as l-A are James
I- Higgs. /irinio Q. Goana. Juan
tt Goana. James B. Harris. B. !•'
Hand and Max K. Smith.
Those listed as discharged are
John II. Hoffman. Jr.. Billy R.
Jones. Donald E. McKelvey. Levi
C. McRorey. 1!. C. Tollison, Ray-
mond D. Watts. Samuel it
Hanks, Keith E Wilson. Cecil F.
Alston. Rex I). Saunders and
Billy M Hughes.
It has been -aid that the farm-
-Ts and stockmen of Nolan coun-
;y get less rair, do more griping
ibout it. and make more money
>n what they get than in any oth-
er part of the country.
Eraser R. Demere, who lives
outheast of Sweetwater, has set
a good example on how to pros-
ier despite conditions that are
sometimes quite adverse.
Mr. Demere was threatened
with foreclosure of the mortgage
on his home, and the holder of a
second mortgage was silently
praying that he would not lose
his notes. That was in 1939. He
asked for and was granted a loan
by the Farm Security Adminis-
tration to buy livestock, feed,
Fields Charges Use
Of Gestapo Tactic
Letters Infatuate—
Married By 'Phone—
It's Wrong Number
ABILENE (U.R)—Marriage
by telephone may be all right
in some quarters, but to Abi-
lene's 19-year-old Johnny
Hackney, it may prove to be
a wrong number.
Johnny's bride is a former
Canadian Air Forces nurse to
whom he was wed by tele-
phone in Vancouver, British
Columbia.
But an annullment is in the
offing. It seems the ?0:year-
old attractive young bride.
Dawn Hackney, has changed
her mind about the whole
thing. She said she suddenly
realized when she met John-
ny in Seattle recently that
she did not love him, and
that she apparently became
infatuated by his letters. The
young Canadian had known
Johnny for only two days;
he was a sailor and both were
in the service of their coun-
trv.
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Child Of Five
Possible
Polio Case
In County
i
A suspected case of poliomvel- j
itis. the first reported in Nolan j
| county, has been quarantined to
; | revi nt spread of the disease.
Arrangements have been made |
by the Sweetwater - Nolan Coun- !
ty Health Unit and private doc-|
i tors for the five-year-old child I
to enter Parkland hospital in '
I Dallas for treatment,
The child lives on a Roscoe \
rural route.
Jumper Corn Crop
Ruined By Floods
CLINTON, Mo. (U.R)— A bum-
per bottom-land corn crop in
I Missouri and Kansas has been
i destroyed by heavy rains which
| fell on the sun-parched area and
thousands of acres of hay have
received serious damage.
The record rainfall covered
most of the midwest, but Mis-
souri and Kansas felt it worst.
Several rivers in those states are
I nearmg flood stage and one riv-
er in central Missouri already
; lia< spilled over its banks.
More than six inches of rain-
tall was reported at ICinton, Mo.
j And drenching rains reached a
! peak of seven inches at Topeka.
WASHINGTON (U.R)— An ex-
convict has accused a special
house committee of using "Ges-
tapo methods."
'i he committee, investigating
dispo.-al of surplus war property,
aroused the ire of the witness,
pudgy Benjamin Fields, by order-
ing him to produce requested
books and records.
"I don't like those gestapo
methods," he said, "And I'm go-
ing to raise hell with the com-
mittee."
ltut the committee this
morning found him in con-
tempt of both the committee
and the house of Representa-
tives for failure to produce
the requested records.
In holding him in contempt,
the committee ordered its coun-
sel to prepare statement charging
contemptuous action and to for-
ward the statement to house
speaker Sam Rayburn.
Since the house is in adjourn-
ment, Rayburn is privileged to
certify the action to the Lnited
States attorney for the District
of Columbia for possible further
i'i;l :on.
f ields charges that while
he was testifying before llit
committee, an assistant com-
mittee counsel "raided his
i.ltice." The self-styled Wash-
ington publicist says Joseph
Lewis the counsel, took one
in his girls out of the office
"practically bodily." And al-
most scared her to death.
When Fields ignored two ulti-
matums today to turn over to the
committee records of a certa.il
wire screen purchase, committee
chairman Roger Slaughter an-
nounced that the committee con-
sidered the uealer in contempt
of the house. But Slaughter said
Fields could as he put it. "purge"
himself by giving the investigat-
ing group the requested records
tomorrow.
Despite the evidence intro-
duced in the senate's war
profiteering investigations.
I'ndersccrelary of War Ken-
in ty Koyall predicted today
that the investigations would
show less than one per cent
in the total army contracts
were affected by what he calls
"frauds ami improper ac-
tions."
FRANKFURT ,(U.PJ— A new
international organization came
to light today, created to serve
ends of crime, not of peace.
American and German police
reported smashing an interna-
tional counterfeiting ring. Twen-
ty-five persons have been arrest-
ed, all of them Germans except
three United States war depart-
ment employees in Frankfurt.
The ring is charged with making
and passing counterfeit $50 bills
and English one-pound notes.
Officials say the gang
spread their fake hills in Par-
is, Moscow, Berlin and Frank*
i'urt. The counterfeit money
apparently was produced by
an expert engraver who still
is being sought by French
police. The engraver was so
skillful that officials say it
must have taken him months
to comlpete the plates for the
bills.
Three Americans charged with
being part of the gang are form-
er soldiers who, among others,
protested recently that they were
being held under guard without
charge.
Police say the ring dealt in
black market goods and narcotics
as well as counterfeit bills.
Authorities say the ring had
its headquarters in Germany, but
its operations reached many Eur-
opean capitals. One official says
if all leads in the case were fol-
lowed. it would put every crim-;
inal investigator in Europe on '
.fit j..,..
Nolan County Farmer-Stockman Shows How
To Prosper Under Adverse Texas Conditions
J .seed, and to pay off an old debt
| of about $(>00.
Last week Mr. Demere sold
j part of his sheep, came in to the
■ local office, and paid in full his
| standard loan to the FSA. During
i the six year period Mr. and Mrs.
j I >i mere borrowed about $1,500 to
! remodel their home, put up a
; new windmill, storage tank, pipe
j water to all parts of his farm-
stead. and to meet other opera-
: tion i xpenses.
Mrs. Demere has canned 300
jars of fruits and vegetables this
year, and has additional meat
and vegetables in storage. Mr.
Demere has kept a complete rec-
ord of expenses and income each
See NOLAN Page Eight
Heat Wave May Claim
Second Dallas Victim
DALLAS, TEX.. (U.R)—A 64-
vear-old victim of heat prostra-
iton. Hvte Kuhn. remains in a
serious condition in a Dallas
hospital today
Meantime, funeral services are
being arranged for Another per-
son who died from the heat. .'19-
year-old Marion Gunn who died
at the hospital where Kuhn is
being treated, and he became
the city's fifth victim to suc-
cumb to the hot weather
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Marshall Doublecross
's Charged By Paper
CHINA (U.R)—A Communist
newspaper has attacked General
George Marshall. The paper im-
plies Marshall is a doublecrosser
who pretends to mediate on one
hand, and at the same time en-
courages Generalissimo Chiang
Kiashek to continue civil war.
Troubles Stop Oil
Test At Blackwell
Reported mechanical break-
down has halted drilling on the
j Warner Petroleum Corp. No. 1
] J. T. Hamilton estate test south
| of Sweet w ater.
The test is passed M.N00 feet.
| and is on the northeast 275 acres
tin the H&TC survey, about two
| miles southwest of Blackwell.
XI W KQl'IPMKXT ARRIVFS
New equipment is being moved
| in for a I>.500 foot rotary test five
j miles north of Sweetwater on a
1 bloeii of about 10.000 acres as-
■senibled by Harley Sadler.
Rig was recently moved from
Cement. Oklahoma for the El-
j lengburger try, the N. H. Snow-
den Oil and Gas Company No. I
| B. J'. McGee. 000 feet from the
north and east lines of section
i 17. block 21. T X- p sitrvev.
Hearings End
Food Bill
Is Highest
Since 1920
WASHINGTON (U.R)— The de-
control )>oard of the OPA is con-
ducting its last day of hearings
on possible return of ceilings to
certain food commodities.
With that in mind, the CIO has
demanded tha< he government
roll back wiiat the union calls
••'•unaway prices'" within the
next .?() days The alternative the
union offers is to revise the wage
stabilization program to take in-
to account living cost incteases
in the pas', six months.
At a meeting of the union's
national leaders, a . tatemeni was
i.-stud which said: "we cannot ac-
cent a situation in which wages
are frozen while the cost o« liv-
ing soars "
The agriculture depart
i ii m say* the July food bill
tin ilii u.'iagi family iiik
tin- highest since l!l"0. De-
p.ii i incut experts sa> the risr
in prices spilled over ':itn
ugiist, but they expect a
i roril linn iiid wheat nop
to keep them from going any
lilgllt I ,
The same view about food
prices has been taken by witnes-
ses before tit-.- three-man price
decontrol board Dairy industry
spokesmen say a temporary re-
sumption ot price controls ulti-
mately would cost the consumer
more.
The board must decide by
nixt week whether to return
grains, meat and dairy products
t' ceiling controls.
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40 Absentee Ballots
Mailed Thursday By
Nolan County Clerk
Absentee voters in the August
'Mth run-off will have to work
•'ast to get ballots back to the
office of Countv Clerk I. W
Sen" not later than August 21.
1-Y'iv absentee ballots were
nailed from that office yester-
BULLETIN
WANHIXGTON — (U.R)—
Some Washington sources say
the president has expressed
privately complete disapprov-
al of the llritish blockade
against so-called illegal Im-
migrants into Palestine.
•av following certification by
the democratic committee, and
voters have only a wek to re-
turn their votes.
Votes must be postmarked not
later than August 20.
Texas Highways To
Be Improved Under
Five Million Plan
AUSTIN (U.R)—The Texas State
Highway Department has called
for offers on an estimated $5,000,-
000 worth of construction, in-
cluding work on urban express-
ways in Dallas and San Antonio.
Today's bidding includes of-
fers on 280 farm-to-market roads,
estimated to cost over $2,000,000.
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