Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 124, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 25, 1948 Page: 3 of 8
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Tuesday, May 25/1948
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Gandhi Murderer Goes On
Trial Tomorrow In India
(By United Press)
A strange court drama will
open tomorrow in Now Delhi, In-
dia.
A man will go on trial for the
murder of another man. And
his best hope for escaping
the death penalty lies not in
the-evidence to be presented or
the motive behind the act. The
man is guilty of the slaying be-
yond all doubt. He has proclaim-
'ed .it himself and his professed
no regrets. His chance of escap-
ing the hangman's noose lies
curiously enough, in the identity
of his victim.
The defendant is a plump,
rather drab looking man with
an owlish face and bulging eyes
named Nathuram Vinayakc
Godse.
His victim was Mohandas
Gandhi, spiritual leader of In-
dia's Hindus the Mahatma of
practically all of India's 400.-
000 population, Hindu and
Moslem. All, that is, save a fan-
atical few such as the man who
slew him.
Seven Others
Seven otner men also will go
on trial with Gose, charged with
taking part in the murder con-
spiracy. But Godse is the man
who fired three bullets into
Gandhi nearly four months ago
in a garden in Bombay.
The state will ask that Godse
be sentenced to hand. But there
are many who believe he will be
saved by the tenets of the very
man whose life he took.
Gandhi was a man of peace.
Non-violence was his cardinal
principle. Passive resistance was
his creed. Gandhi was passion-
ately devoted to the idea that
violence should go unpunished.
Godse never has repented
what he did. He has insisted he
would do it again. But the spirit
of a little old man in a loin-
cloth who turned peaceful re-
sistance into a weapon mightier
than the sword, may yet be the
salvation of the man who struck
him down.
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Water Scarcity In
Palestine Calls
For Drastic Steps
JERUSALEM, May (UP)—
The war in Jerusalem has made
! water so scarce that Israel fight-
I ers have definite orders on how
| to use their two-gallon daily ra-
tion.
j A half-gallon may be used for
drinking. The rest can l)e used
in any way, provided it is used i
over and over again.
Housewives who get the same
ration have been told just how j
to wash their clothes. They must,
soak them for a full day in aj
small amount of water, then add |
more water and leave in the sun j
for several hours before scrub-
bing. After that, the same water
is to be used for washing, for
baths, for scrubbing floors and
finally for flushing toilets.
Marriage Licenses
Marriage ficenses have been
issued by the county clerk's of-
fice t" the following couples:
| .John. R. Payne and Mrs. Juanita
Goodrich: Horace l>. Cooper and
Miss Gelda Marie Smith of
Quinlan; E. K. Ra.ybon and Mrs.
Viola Williams: .lack (). C'ulp
land Mrs. I.illie Bird, and 11 i 11 is
Defortl Thornhury and Threesa
I ('opeland.
Reserve Officers
Appeal For Aid
For Injured Vets
WASHINGTON, May 25 (UP)
The Reserve Officers Associ-
ation says it will appeal to Con-
gress to go to the aid of hospi-
talized reserve officers whose
pay has been cut off by a ruling
of the comptroller general.
Colonel John Oliver, legisla-
tive agent for the association,
says he will put the matter be-
fore the armed services commit-
tee. He says thousands of sick
and injured reserve officer vet-
erans of World War Two were
cut off without pay or allow-
ances by the comptroller gener-
al's ruling.
However, Army Secretary
Kenneth Royall says that only
236 officers were affected by
the ruling when it was issued in
March.
The army claims the men were
not in service as patients, but
for a study by the board of phy-
sicians of their right to disa-
bility pay.
Board Chairman
Aimivfr to Previous I'ascle
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Rath Workers Turn
Down Company Plan
To Settle Strike
WATERLOO, Iowa, May 25
(UP)—-Striking CIO packing-
house workers at the Rath Pack-
ing Company in Waterloo, Iowa,
have voted to reject a settle-
ment formula proposed by the
company.
A. T. Stephens, district direc-
tor of the union, announced that
the proposal was rejected late
last night by a 97 per cent mar-
gin. But he did not say how-
many of the plant's 4500 work-
ers voted.
Nor was there any announce-!
ment of what settlement terms
the Rath Packing Company had
offered. Rath is one of the inde-;
pendent companies still affected
by the long drawn out packing-
house strike. The national guard
was called in last week when sev- ,
eral thousand pickets rioted.
Negotiations will be resumed
at Waterloo today.
New Car Licenses
Licenses have been issued by!
the '-ounty tax collector's <>f-|
ficc for the following new cars: j
I!i (K Nash sedan, Dallnn Hill:
tills Chevrolet sedan, B. Hurk-j
low of Merkel: 1018 Studebaker j
four-floor. Ross Godfrey, and I
1918 Chevrolet tudor, S. R. .lack-
son.
HORIZONTAL
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chairman of
the board of
New York
stock
exchange
13 Nullifies
14 Interstice
15 Hardens
16 Genus of
shrubs
19 Bugle call
20 Make lace
21 Take into
custody
23 Seine
24 Austere
26 Uncloses
28 Silkworm
29 Rail bird
30 Solicitor
general (ab.)
31 Steamship
(ab.)
32 Mimicker
34 Slave
37 Girl's name
38 Peruses
40 Entire
41 Awards of
merit
46 Point
47 Animal skin
49 Not any
50 Cosmic order
51 One given to
self estimation
53 Number
55 Tranquil
56 CharRers
VERTICAL
1 Pauses
2 Oleic acid
ester
3 Acrid
4 Editors (ab.)
5 Musical note
6 Former
Russian' ruler
7 Fences in
8 Either
9 However
10 Lender
11 Michigan city
12 Birds' homes
17 Credit (ab.)
18 Eve (Scot.)
21 Word puzzle
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25 Stair part
27 Armed band
32 Adduce
33 Paleness
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39 Bridges
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42 Grafted (her.)
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44 Any
45 Dregs
48 Bind
50 Scottish
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Of Interest To The Former
(|{y t n it i d Press)
Meat production in federally
inspected plants continues to de-
cline. The production and mar-
keting administration reports
that during the past week it
dropped ten per cent below the
300,000,000 pounds of the same
week a year ago.
Cattle slaughter totaled 22,000
head, off ten percent. Calf slaugh-
ter of 13:5,000 head was I t per
cent below the previous week.
And hog slaughter was nine per-
cent below the 916,000 head of
the same period. Sheep and
lamb slaughter totaled 258,000
for the preceding week.
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Supplies of commercial feed-
stuffs. according to I'MA, are
down slightly from this time a
year ago. The nation has eight-
and-one-haH'-niiliion tons to car-
ry its flocks and herds through
the next six months.
But a decrease in livestock I
numbers more than off-sets the
smaller supply of feed. The re-1
suit is that the supply per animal
unit is slightly larger this season ,
than last.
I'MA adds that feedstuff mar
kets during the past week aver I
| aged higher. This was principal-
ly a reflection of sharp gains in
the heavier wheat offer and soy-i
bean meal which more than j
countered lower prices for most
[ feeds.
The feed grain index advanced j
six points as a result of higher'
corn prices.
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Supplies of irrigation water in
western states is mostly satisfac-
tory. Reports to the I'SDA'sj
Soil Conservation Service indi-
cate that the outlook improved I
early this month in the south-1
west as a result of heavy April
snow in the mountains and rain
in some foothill areas.
May snow surveys indicated a ,
generally satisfactory water sup-
ply except in Arizona. In the I
northwest, flood hazards existed
in the northern and western!
parts of the Columbia River Ba- j
sin.
Water prospects in the Rocky t
Mountain states were reported |
favorable a month ago and those I
conditions remain unchanged.
Windsor is the name of the
ruling house of Kngland,
Agronomist Visits
This County Monday
E. A. Miller, agronomist with
the Extension Service, was in
Nolan County Monday inspect-
ing the vetch demonstration and
checking on the results of 2-4-1),
especially in regard to bind
weed, according to Milton Tem-
pleton, county agent.
Miller reports that the vetch
and clovers are in as good shape
as that in Central Texas, since
that area has had a drought until
recently, also.
He believes that Madrid clover
has lots of promise for Nolan
County and recommends that it
be planted by itself especially
in years of limited rainfall.
Miller studied reports on 7078
maize and stated that he believed
that it will prove to be the best
sandy land combine that might
be used here.
Editor Sees New
Trend For Writers
Of Editorials
CHICAGO. May 25, (UP) —
i The editor of the Louisville
| Courier-Journal and Times has
j accused editors of glamorizing
j editorial pages to attract read-
j ers.
Editor Barry Bingham calls
it the new look. He told mem-
bers of the Inland Daily Press
meeting in Chicago today that
instead of lowering their skirts,
editors are raising them a little.
Bingham says that 43 per
cent of the men and 28 per cent
of the women subscribers are
reading at least one editorial a
day. He says that humanizing
editorial writers will attract
oven more readers.
Political Exiles
Meet To Discuss
Soviet Tactics
WASHINGTON, May 25,11'l i
—A group of political exiles who
know a lot about Communi ,t
tactics will meet in Washington.
They may give America and
Western Europe some helpful
hints on how to combat Commu-
nism.
It will be the second annual
conference of the International
Peasant Union, created at Wash-
ington last .July 4th. The union
includes Peasant Parv leaders
from five countries behind the
Iron Curtain, Bulgaria, Hun,
gary, Poland Rumania a n d
Czechoslovakia.
Among the more prominent
members are former Premiei s
Ferenc Nagy of Hungary and
Stanislas Mikolajczyk of Po-
land.
A spokesman says one result
of the four-day meeting might
be arrangements for exchanging
information on Communist tac-
tics with Western European po-
litical parties or with the CIO
In the United States. y-
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Welsh, Edward. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 124, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 25, 1948, newspaper, May 25, 1948; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth283455/m1/3/?rotate=270: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.