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In a few days the Uons club
“Safety Sallies”, little wooden fig-
urea warning motorists they ap-
proach a school zone, will go up
* oh the streets here. Heed them.
HI* They may prevent you from Wil-
ing somebody’s child.
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night. Jrlday fair, not quite so
warm. JjModerate to fresh south-
erly wfhds on the coast, shifting
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VOLMUE XXXIV
ORANGE, TEXAS. THURSDAY, MAY h 1947
NUMBER 102
U. N. Overrides Arab Protest On Palestine Question
Phone Strike Leaders Urge Pickets To Hold Lines»X
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Developments In
AFTW Walkout Are
Expected Today
LATEST IN SERES OF TWISTERS
KILLS 2 TEXANS; DAMAGE HEAVY
Red Fighters Told
To Stay Prepared
As Europe's Labor
Day Is Observed
Washington, May 1. (AP) —
Telephone strike leaders called on
pickets to hold their lines today
gras government conciliators direct-
ing the 23-day-old walkout, sent
officials to New York in an effort
to head off a back to work move-
y ment and persuade members of
four independent unions not to
accept a tentative settlement.
Peter J. Manno, a government
conciliator, said a break might
come at 3 p. m., Orange time,
conference here between officials • By The Associated Press
of the American Telephone and i • London, May I. — Russia’s j
Telegraph tong lines division and | minister of the armed forces. Nik-
the American Union of Telephone i olia Bulganin, called on the So-
Workers.
* he development failed to. ma-
terialize as expected yesterday,
but Manno told reporters It was
only postponed and "you can ex-
/ pect it at 3 p. m., today, although
something might happen before
that time.”
He replied “No comment”
when asked about reports the
•% government planned to propose a
AS IIBOt Of DISTRICT COURT
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mvage hike of $4 to $6 weekly as
"he basis for getting wage talks
started in the long lines division.
The NKTW is demanding $6.
vjet army, navy and airforce to-
day to maintain “their fighting
preparedness” in an order of the
day issued as millions celebrated
May Day—Europe's Labor Day. [
Many nations, which , have
veered to the left since the war,
joined with the Russians in ob-
serving the day. holding mass ral-
lies and parades in capitals and
other cities to coincide with a
show of Soviet military strength
through Moscow's red square.
Big Day In Moscow
It was a legal holiday for the
first time iq Belgium and Nor-
way. Workers in France also got
the day off and in Russia a three- !
Rockwall, Tex., May 1. (AP>—*!
The latest of a series of four tor-
nadoes which swept northeast j
Texas Tuesday and Wednesday
nights left two persons dead and j
a third injured as its indirect vie- j
tims.
Mrs. Jerry Husk, returning to
'iome at Paris, and Clay B. Neese j
of Houston, were killed in a high- j
way accident at the we t edge of j
Rockwall during the storm. Husk, i
operator of a bakery at Alice, }
was critically injured.
The tornado which swept the
bottoms of the east fork of the STORM DAMAGE AT MABANK. TEXAS—This is one of several
Trinity river between Garland j buildings wrecked by a windstorm which struck Mabafrk, in East
anrt Rockwall Hwimviwi a now ! Texas. Mabank was one of several northeast Texas communities
house mi'the outskirts of RnZ struck by windstorms the night of Apr,. 20_(AP Photo,
wall and wrecked several houses
in the river bottoms. No other
injuries were reported.
Trees Torn Up
Husk, who was driving his ba-
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V
SBU ’
For Inquiry Into
Holy Land Problem
New York, May I, (AP) —The
United Nations assembly today
overrode Arab, protests and a-
; greed without 'a record vote to
_ consider creation of a committee
I of inquiry on Palestine.
Arab representative* had taken
| the floor one after another to op-
pose the British fact-finding pro-
posal, but no opposing voice wet
raised when Assembly president
Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil an-
nounced that he considered the
sa # v a I j proposal approved for inclusion
UT I rumon, Alomon im *hc wo|k sheet of the extrdor-
r dinary Palestine session.
| Washington, May 1. (AP) — ! Approval of the British pro-
in, the new district judge begun , p1PKidplU Truman and President I Posal still left the assembly the
work at the immense task of A|emB|) of Mcx|,.„ announced to- t«*k of settling the even more
clearing away cases on the crowd-
Frank> W. Hustmyre, young Or-
ange attorney, was officially In-
j stalled as Judge of the newly cre-
ated 128th-Judicial district com-
posed of Orange county in brief
| inaugural ceremonies held this
; morning at 11 o’clock. The oath
j was administered by District Clerk
Tom M. Dodd, in whose office the
| inauguration took place.
Immediately after being sworn
U. S. Credits To
Mexico Announced
In Joint Statement
| day the United Slates will ”ap- ! controversial question raised by
j dn<:kel *’hlch resulted in crea- . pi()Vp ltddltiowl| credit,'’ ,0 Mcx- 1 Arab demands for consideration
ico and that the two nations have
agreed “to stabilize the rate of
; Day celebration there since the
: way.
State Authorizes
$45,500 Repairs
On Highway 90
An estimated $43,500 repair
job on highway 90 between Or-
ange and Beaumont was included
in projects authorized yesterday
by the State Highway commis-
sion. according to Associated
Press. Work will Include under-
seal and repairing of concrete on
this stretch of road, it was an-
nounced. - , ,. , _ „
A number of other projects also | tr“s^^*“**,5^
Were authorized for the state, all
totalling $8,932,000.
kcry truck, evidently was trying i
to avoid the oncoming tornado I
when his vehicle struck a tele-
phone pole. He was taken to the
Greenville hospital.
Private fliers from Dallas who j
watched the twister from the air
said it tore up trees by the roots, j
CI0-AFL Merger Talks Started As GOP
Heads Predict Approval of Labor Curbs
tion on a temporary basis of the I
new judicial district.
With Judge Hustmyre’* tnstal- pxch(inge bptwepn thp and
lation, the district court here will ! tbp d jj (..,
be in continuous session with no A jo|nt- c(>mmuntqu„ s«,d ,hP
I m.“ j~—rr/visr' -
One of the fliers, Harold Grant,
I said he flew low And tried
AWKWARD LOCATION
Seaside, Ore., May 1—(/P)—
Councilmen are puzzled hy the
legal problem they will have if
construction of an $80,000 pub-
lic auditorium is approved in a
special May 20 election.
City Attorney Thomas Chave,
Jr., says an erroneous site de-
scription on the ballot puts the
building in the center of Edge-
wood street.
(See MAY DAY on Page 2)
Methodist Plan
Big Youth Camp on
Site at Palestine
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LET'S DO
SOMETHING
ABOUT IT I
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FINEST TYPE OF STUDENTS j artificial lake and an estimated
. ii the general verdict of those who j $250,00 in permanent buildings to
see the Orange high school senior serve 1,500 Methodist Youth
class boys and girls in action. An j campers.
excellent example of fine student- j Planned as one of the three
* ship was exemplified by that j largest Methodist encampments in
V group introduced Tuesday by j the U. S., the first units were
Frank Hubert, high school facul- j scheduled to be in use by the sum*
ty member, at the Rotary club j mer of 1848.
ft v*»ekly meeting and luncheon. ! -----
First was the cltjb piano player
* Clifford Shipp, a member of the
MSftior class, then came that ex-
ceptionally fine musical pair,
Joey Lou Tatum and Clyde Heslip
and lastly the student guest of the ; Funeral services were to be
club, Jess Hay, for the month of j held this afternoon at 3 o’clock
April and Ted Howard, student | for Mrs. T. D. Foreman, who died
The Russian order of the day,
broadcast by the Moscow radio, communicate with persons whose
I homes were wrecked, but that'
they appeared dazed. Grant said
the farmers sat on the wreckage
of their houses.
The storm cut off direct tele-
phone communication between
Dallas and Rockwall;
Mabank Hardest Hit
A heavy hail storm pelted
Rockwall about 3(1 minutes be-
Patestine, Tex., May 1. (AP)-f-j fore the tornado appeared.
Clower, Mabank anti Odon
ference of the Methodist church j were struck by small twisters j. j
Of a 430-acre site here for a con- Tuesday night Six persons, all Bndies <>f the dp.|d WPrp
ferenqe youth encampment will members o one family were in- . b thc surfilce during the
be completed next Tuesday. | jured at C lower. Mabank suf- j . , ,
The Rev. Walter Armstrong, j fered the worst property damage. *
pastor of the Grace Methodist j A business building, residence I Dr, C. L. Puckett, mine physi-
church here, announced today j and three barns were destroyed j cian, said none of the bodies
that a conference encampment and other buildings were dam-j showed any signs of burns,
committee and a local group aged.
which raised money to buy the The cahin of tornadoes occur-
red in a season of sweltering wea-
thera. The maximum at Dallas
yesterday—93 degrees—was the
hottest April 30 on the weather
bureau’s records.
By The Associated Press
The CIO and AFL began talk-
ing about joining forces in one
powerful organization today as
claimed that, legislation to restrict
claimed that legislntto nt orestrict
lapses necessary or eases held up
by absence of the trial jurist while
conducting court at other places.
Despite full-time service of the
new judge, it is expected to take
several months to bring the num-
ber of cases on the docket down to
what it considered a normal fig-
ure.
Judge Hustmyre’s appointment,
made by Governor Beauford Jex-
amount of th«.,gc»dits IS not esti-
mated, but will be used "to as-
of Palestine independence.
Also awaiting action was a
growing controversy over Jewish
demands for representation in the
Palestine debates here. This ques-
tion will be taken up by the 14-
nation steering committee after
slot In financing a number of the agenda debate Is finished.
EIGHT KILLED
IN MINE BLAST
Spring Hill coal mine near here
were killed by an explosion yes-
union activities now is a cinch to l01’ Tuesday and confirmed by the
! pass the senate, ! senate Wednesday, follow-
A committee of ten members, lln* shortly after creation, pt the
; appointed hy President William i,iew' judicial district hy the ieg-
i Green of the AET, and Philip Mur- j islature.
ray of the CIO. indicated, how-! His Inauguration this morning
! ever, that they were entering the | w**s attended by most members
merger discussions in Washington *he Orange County Bar asso
with tittle prospect of un immc- j.ctotlwi
>n of their
Baby Show Here
Set For Friday
land would effect the transfer at
a meeting in his church.
The project calls for building an
diate consolidation of their 13,- and friends and mem tiers of
j 500,000 members. ( family.
Murray initiated thc move for
the talks last December but later
i said he believed the two groups
I should first fight off their com- j
_ ... . . mon foes.
Terre Haute. Ind., May t. (AP) | Fb|1uh, of the 8Pntltc yesterday
Eight of II men working in the | ,o scnd thp tobor bl|1 wlth ,ts four
’’toughening” amendments l.ack Judging (ii the Himual Veterans
to committee ’was described by Foreign Wars baby show will
Senator Wherry (Nell), republican ‘to conducted at the USO build-
ing, Fourteenth and Cypress, Sts.,
Friday at 3 p. m , it was an-
nounced today. Parents of all
children entered In the competi-
tion were reminded that they
should be on hand with their
youngsters at that time.
Awards to winners in Friday's
show will lie presented during a
youth pageant scheduled to be
held In Carr Junior high school
auditorium Saturday night, the
announcement stated.
| projects” prerented to the export-
i import bank by the Mexican gov-
ernment.
The projects, it continued, "are
designed to make the greatest and
earliest contribution to thc
, economy of Mexico."
The communique added:
“Both chiefs of staff Wave a-
greed that their respective ad-
minstroMons must exert all ef-
forts to raise the standards of liv-
ing in their countries by increas-
ing productivity and, consequent-
(ly, thc purchasing power of then
city and county officials ' iwoples.
Refinery Workers
Strike at Borger
Syria led thc fight for inclusion
of ..the Palestine independence
question on the agenda.
U. S. Chamber
Considers New
Labor Policy
Washington, JMay 1. (AP) — A
proposed labor policy which
would outlaw the closed shop and
require a Secret ballot of employes
before the calling of a strike was
presented today t*r consideration
by the United States Chamber of
Commerce.
The resolution was drafted by-V
the chamber's 18-member policy
committee headed by'W. A. Klin-
ger, Sioux City, Iowa, builder.
Approval was expected late to-
! day at the final business session
Rescue squads said the bodies,
found about 15 feet apart, indi-
cated the men were walking to-
ward the shaft when the explo-
sion occurred.
Funeral Held For
Roscoe Houston
Rites Held Today
For Mrs. Foreman
guest tor the month of May.
Funeral services for Roscoe
Houston, 50, were held today at
18 a. m. at thc Fuller funeral
home with the Rev. W. W Ken-
nedy, pastor of the Cove Baptist
church, officiating. Burial was in
Evergreen cemetery.
Grave rites were under direc-
tion of the American Legion
Mr. Houston died
Wednesday morning at a local
hospital. The Rev. R. L. Davis,
pastor of the Assembly of God
church, wks to officiate with bu- j m Jltlng
rial In Evergreen cemetery under
direction of the Claybar funeral
home.
Work of bringing the bodies out
; of the mine had been delayed,
rescuers said, by a smoke pocket
which spread over the blast area.
Three men who escaped un-
hurt from the shaft said they
were knocked to the mine floor by
a dynamite- blast which tfib
miners 1.000 back in the tunnel
were setting off just 12 minutes
before quitting time yesterday.
«
Wesley Harris, a veteran mine
superintendent and a mining in-
structor at Indiana State Teach-
ers college here, said there ap-
glon. __ parently was no fire, and mining
suddenly : authorities surmised that thp dv-
: whip, as assuring final passage of
the measure.
Passage Oxer Veto Uncertain
However, the most jubilant
supporters of the bill sidestepped
I an expression on whether they
could muster enough support to
override a presidential veto.
fn other labor developments, ne-
gotiations on a new contract for
the 400,000 United Mine Workers
came to a standstill today while
John L. Lewis, union chieftain,
j sought the views of the Southern
Mine Owners association on the
question of an industry-wide a-
greement.
While the basic steel industry
(Sen LABOR on Page 2)
THREE KILLED
IN RAIL WRECK
Borger, Tex., May 1. (Af)
Workmen for six plant* and i
fineries of the Phillips Petroleum of the 35th annual convention,
company of Borger and Phillips,! The proposal was far more
Tex . began an orderly walkout drastic than some officers had an-
shortly after midnight today af- ticipated. ft did not call for—Us*,-'..
ter a cote of the members of Lo- outright ban on industry-wide
ciil 351. foternatiorial Union of bargaining contained in a housft-
Operaling Engineers (AFL) re- upproved labor bill, but did urge
Jccted a company offer for set- federal prohibition of “monopo-
tlement of Is ues between the Untie practices” through industry-
wide bargaining or other means.
Local Composer's
Song To Be on Air
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RESUMPTION OF TALKS
BETWEEN RUSSIA AND
BRITAIN AGREED ON
Huntington, Pa., May 1. ,{AP>-
twenty safety sallies
will in a short while become the
silent warning to traffic In the
vicinities where the lives of thou-
sands of pupils and teachers arc
endangered every minute that they
are exposed to movements on the
streets which they must traverse
in crossing thoroughfares and as Supt. j. w Edgar is in Wash-
they are transported by car or. j ington, D. C., on business for the
bicycle on their way two and j schools,
from home. Its Just another in-
stance where the thoughtfulness
of the Lions club members means
protection to humanity.
Sunday at a government hospital namite blast had touched off
at Bayard, New Mexico, where he PXpj„slon.
had been taken several months i . ______
from
service in the first World War.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs,
Lula Houston, 817 Canter St,
London, May 1. CAP ) — A gov-
ernment source said today Prime
Minister Stalin and British For- hour for the strike to start,
eign Secretary Ernest Bevin had
agreed at their Moscow meeting
to resume talks between _ Russia
and Great Britain on a revision
of the Anglo-Soviet Iricndship
treaty.
The informant, who may not be
identified by name, said Stalin
company and the union.
Waco Bus Drivers
Go Out On Strike
Whoo, Tex , May I. (AP) —* Mr*. G. Breaux, Orange song
This city was without conveyance | composer, will be recognized over
today as bus and street car work- radio station KPAC. Port Arthur,
ers went on strike to back up Saturday between 8 and $ a. m .
Iheii demands for a pay increase by the presenting of her most re-
of 20 cents an hour. cent piece nf musie on that hour’s
Seventy - seven drivers and 22 program, it was anounced today
maintenance worker* either left by George Crouchet, anouncer of
their Jobs or failed to report for that station.
work at 5 a. nr, the appointed i “The Cross in Texas City,”
worts and music both originated
by Mrs. Breaux, according to
JUSTICE OF PEACE
UNDERGOES OPERATION
Crouchet, will be played and sung
at the time designated.
Featherlite Block
EDGAR IN WASHINGTON
The teeth of nearly all sharks
and skates are set in the gums
rather than the jaws and fall
away and are replaced more or
less continuously. -
New Donors To
Cemetery Fund
Named By Pilots
The condition of Justice of the j
Peace J. P. Swain, who underwent C' t I I C^.U
^ an operation this week in St 1 rlflU irCTC IS 3010
the Three persons were killed today j aUo expressed hope that Russia Theresa hqspital in Beaumont, l. H Master and W. J. Webb
was reported today sa satisfHC- have announced the purchase of
lory. Judge Swain has been ab- facilities of the Orange Feather^
Britain could get some if needed, sent from his office in the county i |jte Block company at First and
probably at a lower price thsrrr court house for about four weeks, j fr0nt Sts. Transfer of the prop-
from-the United States or Canada. He expects to be able to return
Warning Issued Against Construction
Or Repair Work Without Building Permit
ROLL THE BUILDING BALL
is an admonition that should be ________
expressed by Orange people as A number of instances where ( These permits, he explained, are
* they witness actual beginning of | alterations or repair work has the city’s method of seeing to it
a campaign to construct business been done on buildings in the i that zoning restrictions are com-
in a train wreck fhvolving two
freights and a crack Pennsylvania
railroad flyer. Thjrty-foUr were
injured, eight seriously.
A Pennsylvania railroad spokes-
man said that the New York St-
I Louis flyer, thc American, Jolted
into rods of sheet steel protruding
; from the sides o,f two gondola
cars of a moving freight train at
12:47 a. m. (Orange time).
The most recent contributions The impact ripped a tremen- >
to the fence fund being raised by duns hole In the side of thc fourth
the Pilot club were announced car of the American and damaged j
today by Mrt. Harry Singletary, ‘he engine, mail car and another
chairman, fence fund. One $25 coach No cars were derailed,
j contribution was made by a person (however. J
who requested that his name be A moment later another freiglH |
! withheld from publication, in i —‘his one moving easU-ripped
would have a wheat surplus after
the negt’*'bar vest and that Great
in another week or so.
Justice of the Peace
places. In the 400 block on Fifth
street, three new store buildings,
are to be ready for occupancy in
a comparatively short time while
the good work of front remodel-
ing gets under way on two oi the
most ^ancient two story brick
structures on Front street In the
meantime the architects and build-
ing planners are working over
time to prepara for the greatest
campaign of its kind ever witness-
ed in Orange. ;
memory of Mrs. L. G. Stgndfield
and another $25 was contributed
by the local post of the Ameircan
city without the permits required plied with and other building re- , Legion,
by law have recanUy come to the qulrements are met. They are is-
attention of authorities here. E. L. sued by G. V. Denman, city build- This brings the total thus far
Barker, chief of the city’s In*pec- ing inspector, whose offices are toward the recently erected cyc-
Uon forces reported today. on the first floor of the municipal ion* fence around Evergreen ceme-
Barker said that in virtually building in the $00 block of Green tory to $1220.21. The remainder,
every case thc persons having ; avenue. Barker said. on the cost of the fence, which
such work done pied innocent of totalled M772.94. must be raised
any knowledge of the existence of Ht ur*ed all person* planning to by May 13, Mrs. Singletary stated
an ordinance requiring a permit build, repair or alter any atruc- Additional contributions may be
before the start of any structural lure located within the city limits [ mailed to -her at 707 Third st„ or
work on buildings within the city to secure the necessary permits ' to Mrs. Bertha Janaon, Bo* 8,
limits. ! before start of work. > Orange.
into the sheet metal protruding
from the other side of the west-
bound freight and its engine and
tender were derailed.
Ten of the injured were rushed -
erty is effective |Jay 8, they
atated. The firm has three full-
Many Indians and Eskimos of Justice of the Peace Marvin tjmp employe* U manufactures
Alaska belong to the Greek Orth- Newton of precinct two has been a i|gbt weight building Mock of
odox church, the result of mis- assigned to handle Judge cement and other materials which'
■ions established when Russia con- Swain’s duties during the latter’* jtl lwed extensively by con-
trolled the territory absence tractors in the Sabine area.
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"Damn Liar" Says Salon of Official Who for SSr
Said Reform School Inmates Treated OK
ed Rear Admiral Roscoe H. HU-
their bare skin and then hidden lenkoetter to be director of U„ S.‘
away from the investigators and j central intelligence.
Austin. Tex . May 4. (AP) —
Two members of the house elee-
mosynary Investigating committee who. Ashley yesterday retorted,
today challenged, In heated per- had been “paddled” and given
sonai privilege speeches, the only 10 licks each,
alatement by Carina P. Ashley. “They ware beaten to a pulp,”
for “important
quest of Gen.
hower, chief jL
The change 1*
Hiiienkoetter
wiil succeed Li.
Vattdenbrrg. who is
M--’ V-i.
m
to Huntington hospital four miles 1 chairman of the board of control, declared Willi*. “Their temples
west ar.d 24 were sent to the Al- that hoy* in the Gatesville state were puffed up and all black and
toons hospital 30 miles to the east school were ’’treated with proper blue.”
All four main tracks of the consideration.” Rep. E O. Chapman, chairman
PRR were tied up in the crash, “Anybody is a damn liar who of the investigating subcommit- intelligence
the third fatal collision on the *V« ‘hose boys only got 10 lieks.” tee which had re la tad the Oates- under the -
PRR's Middle Pennsylvania dlvi-: shouted Rep. Phillip Willis of ville instance, first took the stand .....
lion in three month*. However, j Kaufman. in protest against Ashley's stata-
by 8 a. m. one of the tracks—the He was referring to two boy* ment. . j
eastbound passenger route -was who. the committee earlier re- •'-“Thoae boys told us they ti-
opened for service . ported, bad been lashed acruas xcejved et least 33 licks,” be said.
HHlenkoettcf
Gen. ii n< S.
returning to the army air forces
He r«~
■tie*" at the
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