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SWEETWATER, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1953
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Fake Doctor To
Be Investigated
OKLAHOMA CITY, March
12 —UP— The wife of II. R. (Toby)
Marshall, paroled convict who
%■ gave narcotics to the late singer
Hank Williams, died on March 3 in
an Albuquerque hospital after tak-
ing pills for headaches prescribed
by Marshall, a state legislator re-
ported Thursday.
A half-brother of the dead wom-
an told State Rep. Robert O. Cun-
Big Crowd Expected
* For H-SU Concert
A full house was indicaled Thurs-
day for a special benefit concert
by the Hardin-Stmmons University
Cowboy Band here tonight at Mu-
nicipal auditorium.
The concert at 8 p. m. was ar-
ranged by the Band Boosters’ Club
to provide funds to help send the
local high school Mustang band to
San Antonio for the Battle of Flov-
jjCrs. It is one of 14 Texas bands
* invited to take part in the parade.
Admission for tonight’s concert
will be 28 and 50 cents. President
J. W. Herron of the Boosters Club
said that “business houses have
ningham, Oklahoma City, that
Mrs. Marshall was buried without
an autopsy.
Marshall is a fake “doctor” who
admitted lying to Cunningham’s
committee i n y e s t i g a t i ng il-
legal sale of narcotics in Oklaho-
ma. He is being held in the Okla-
homa county jail on order of the
State Pardon and Parole Board.
Telephones From Houston
Hubert McClure, Midland. Tex.,
the half-brother, telephoned Cun-
ningham early Thursday from
Houston and said he is going In
Albuquerque V- li;' > investigate
his sister’s deal,..
Marshall was told his wife's
death by County Jailer Jay Spi-
vey.
Spivey said Marshall looked
“starry-eyed" and said, “if she
died, I didn't know anything about
it. I would surely be notified if she
passed away.”
Spivey said the prisoner did not
seem “disturbed” by news of his
wife’s death.
Marshall first testified before the
narcotics committee last Friday,
just three days after the date giv-
en by McClure.
At Albuquerque, officials at the
Bataan hospital said that "any-
thing about the woman’s death will
helped with the program by con- j have to be answered by her doc-
trihuting 185 prizes for the candy tor.”
sale to be conducted Lions Club- j Referred to Doctor
Minstrel-style and we have had 1 The hospital referred newsmen
wonderful cooperation from all! to Dr. Clinton Morgan Jr of Al-
sources.” I Sec DOCTOR Page 8
' Grain Crop Prospects Are
Boosted By Recent Rainfall
Light showers over this area
with a 2.5 inch rain at Kerrville
jjate Wednesday brought added op-
timism over prospects for a wet
spring season. April, May and
June are the better months for
rains but some old-timers say that
rains that break up a long drouth
do not always follow the set pat-
tern.
One of the largest small grain
crops in years has been planted
over all of the five or six counties
surrounding Sweetwater. Most of
fdt u'as put in for grazing but con-
tinuing light rains now point to a
large cash crop for early summer
harvest.
Most wheat, oats, barley and
rye are reported doing well.
By UNITED PRESS
The rain was over for most or
Texas Thursday, but moist air
from the south brought high tem-
fl5 Youths Enter
Service Locally
Fifteen young men reported here
to the three-county Selective Ser-
vice board Thursday morning for
Induction into military service.
Among those from this Immedi-
ate vicinity were Bobby Glenn
Henderson of Blackwell. Andrew
Jackson Mahoney Jr.. Ollle Cox
Jr., Calvin Mac Montgomery, Al-
£’in Gene Giesler of Sweetwater
and Barclay Ted Berryberry of
Roby.
There were several from Snyder,
Hamlin. Fluvanna.
Two In the March call volunteer-
ed previously, one was rejected,
one transferred to Oklahoma and
one changed in classification as
student.
The March call for preliminary
physical examinations will be for
60 men .
peraturcs and good crop-growing
weather to most of the state.
Some scattered showers were
due for East Texas Thursday, with
cloudy to partly cloudy skies fore-
cast for the entire state.
The U.S. Weather Bureau re-
ported that additional rains in the
past 24 hours helped alleviate dry
conditions in many areas.
Parts of West Texas got in on
See CROP Page 8
TEXAN BLASTS
SEC. BENSON'S
COTTON PLAN
AUSTIN. March 12—UP—Texas
Agriculture Commissioner John C.
White Thursday sharply criticized
cotton acreage reduction plans of
the national administration.
He told Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson, in a letter made
public Thursday, “I believe you
are wrong."
White said cotton reserves were
not now sufficient to meet de-
mands of a full-scale war, and call-
ed upon Benson to amplify his
statement asking for voluntary cot-
ton acreage reditclz us this -a,.
He said if -Ikenaoif persisiYd ii/
his program, Texas farmers who
plant less cotton this year should
be assured they will not "suffer
the consequences of a smaller
acreage allotment based on this
reduced figure.
CutOff
Dramatic Rescue
Made In Bitter
Korean Battles
SEOUL, March 12 —UP—Ameri-
can infantrymen battled through
a ring of Chinese Communists
Thursday to rescue an outnum-
bered U.S. patrol that made a
seven-hour stand in the winter’s
heaviest snowfall to break up a
Red attack.
Snow fell all along the 155-mile
front. It ranged from eight inches
in the west to 14 inches in the east.
In some sectors the snow changed
to rain late in the day and turned
supply routes into quagmires.
The American patrol, outnumber-
ed nearly three to one, pounced on
a 100-man Chinese force when it
spotted the Reds moving across
no-man’s land to attack a UN po-
sition south of Pyonggang on the
central front.
The Communist troops, their at-
tack plans upset, surrounded the
small patrol and poured rifle and
machine gun fire on the Ameri-
cans. Red mortars sent in shells
from rear positions.
The Americans dug in and fought
back Their commander radioed
for reinforcements.
One body of troops from the
main Allied positions ran into the
Communists surrounding the pa-
trol and was itself cut off.
A second American force pushed
in to the fight and linked up with
the first group of re-inforcemcnts.
Together they fought their way
through the Reds and reached the
patrol
Finally, at 10 a. m., (7 p. m. cst
uWednesday), seven hours after the
patrol first jumped the superior
Red force, the Americans broke
out of the Communist circle and
returned to their own lines.
Preliminary reports said 20 Reds
wei "suited kill* . Allied !, ogrf
v ere not disclose .
Damage Suit Is
Nearing Close
Testimony was completed Wed-
nesday afternoon and arguments
begun Thursday morning in a half
million dollar damage suit now be-
ing tried in 32nd district court
here. The case was expected to
go to the jury late Thursday after-
noon.
The plaintiff rested its case at
mid-morning Wednesday and the
defense called a total of five wit-
nesses before closing its case Wed-
nesday afternoon. Court was re-
cessed until Thursday morning at
the conclusion of the testimony.
The case involves damages
claimed for injuries, two of which
were fatal, sustained in an automo-
bile crash on Jan 2, 1952. between
Sweetwater and Blackwell. M. V.
Stephenson, superintendent of
schools at Blackwell, and Miss
Janie Herron, 16-year-old student
of that school, were fatally injured.
Mrs. W. W. Shields was driver
of one of the cars involved. Ste-
phenson was driving the oilier. Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Shields are nam-
ed as defendants in the suit, a
combination of six filed by injured
parties asking for damages total-
ing $507,550.
Mrs. Shields, her daughter, Nan-
cy. and her sister, Mrs. L S. Sul-
enberg of Amarillo, all of whom
See DAMAGE Page 8
Highway 70 Goes Ahead
On Long Range Program
Highway 70 Association, organ-
ized at a meeting in Sweetwater
in October of 1951, had a big rec-
ord of accomplishments to review
at the annual meeting this week in
Turkey, Texas.
Future plans were discussed for
getting a route across the entire
slate from Oklahoma above Per-
ryton south through Sweetwater to
Del Ilio—all under one designa-
tion Highway 70.”
The annual meetng, held follow-
ing a luncheon as guests of the
Lions Club in Turkey, re-elected
Cole Boswell of Turkey as presi-
dent; A. C. Bishop of Sweetwater
as vice-president; E. O. Wedge-
worth of Pampa, second vice-presi-
dent; Jimmy Faulkner of Turkey,
secretary-treasurer; Odis Carro-
way of Clarendon, third vice-presi-
dent.
H. W. Broughton was elected di-
rector from Sweetwater with Chas.
Lewis as alternate. Other dlectors
and alternates were named from
Spur, Pampa, Clarendon, Black-
well, Perrylon, Hotan, Roby lay-
ton and Matador.
Among recent developments
along this Route 70 are the im-
provements at Sweetwater (w^th
contract for the Lamar Street un-
derpass, widening of the Lamar
stret entrance into Sweetwater and
contract for a new South High-
way 70 out of Sweetwater.
Allocation has been made for the
new bridge across the Canadian
River between Pampa and Perry-
ton. Two farm-to-market roads on
either side of the Canadian will
connect up the link from Pampa
to Perryton. A trip has been pro-
vided for between Turkey and
Prairie Dog Fork of the Red River
south of Clarendon. A re-routing
will skirt highway around the west
edge of Pampa.
Discussions at the annual meet-
ing included straightening out
some strips of road around Dick-
ens and Clarendon and getting bet-
ter highway markers in some
spots.
J. E. Massey, district highway
engineer at Childress, was princip-
al speaker at the meeting.
It was voted to meet, in June
at Pampa or Sweetwater to discuss
further development of this impor-
tant route.
At Perryton in the North Pan-
handle, Highway 70 flows into U.
S. Highway 83 north through North
Dokta in to Kansas. U. S. 83 bends
See HIGHWAY Page 8
MRS. CLARA WETSEL
IS NOMINATED FOR
SCHOOL TRUSTEE
A petition placing Mrs. W B
(Clara) Wetsel Jr., well-known
Sweetwater business woman, on
the ballot for school trustee for the
Sweetwater school district April 4
election was filed Wednesday af-
ternoon.
Petition filed with Chairman
Carl Anderson of the school hoard
bore 48 signatures. Mrs. Wetsel,
former president of the business
and Professional Women’s Club,
has long been active in civic and
public life here.
There are now six candidates for
the three places on the school
board. Terms of C. E. Lambert.
Wade Forester and Hudson Lin-
coln expire this year. The three
had been reluctant to run for re-
election, it: was said, out citizens’
petitions placed them in nomina-
tion.
Petitions have also been tiled
nominating Clay Reeves and John
Brookshire.
Bohlen Opposed
WASHINGTON, March 12—UP—
A test of President Eisenhower’s
foreign policy leadership appeared
to be shaping up in the Sentae
Thursday as some Republicans
balked at th enomination of Charles
E. Bohlen as ambassador to Rus-
Opposition to Bohlen has broken
out among Senate Republicans who
are displeased at the 48 year old
career diplomat's close associa-
tion with foreign policies of Dem-
ocratic administrations.
ME WORRY?—As dignified as
any world statesman sitting for
his portrait is Mr. J. Fred
Muggs. If the 11-month-old chimp
has a worry at all now, it is
wondering how to keep his Now
York TV rating, and not disap-
point hit tan club. (NEA)
SHOT DOWN—Capt. Warren G.
Brown of Henderson, Colo., pilot
of the F-84 Thunderjet that was
attacked and shot down Tuesday
by a Russian MIG over the
American zone of Germany.
Brown parachuted from his
plane and landed safely near Re-
gensburg, Bavaria. (NEA Tele-
photo.)
INSPECTION
LAW MADE
‘EASIER’
AUSTIN, March 12 —UP—
A watered-down automobile safety
inspection law had approval of the
House Thursday, but must pass
another roll call vote before it is
sent to the Senate.
The measure, sponsored by Rep.
D. H. Buchanan of Longview,
passed on second reading Wednes-
day by a vote of 7 to 53.8 The
House at the same time voted 74
to 63 to kill a bill by Rep. Sam
Sellers of Waco for outright repeal
of th. inspection law.
The new law would ease up on
safety requirements and do away
-wills .a provision—never enforced —
that each vehicle pass the safety
test, before getting a license.
"We have here today an inspec-
tion bill far better than the one on
the books,” Buchanan said.
Items Are Named
The hill provides for inspection
lo be confined to brakes, lighting
equipment, horns and warning de-
vices, mirrors, windshield wipers
and windshields.
The Senate Wednesday approved
by a 28 to 0 vote and sent to Gov.
Allan Shivers a bill extending pro-
visions of Texas loyalty oath laws
to include authors of all textbooks
used in public schools.
The anti-Communist bill, orig-
inated by Rep. Marshall O. Bell of
San Antonio, had already cleared
the House,
Shivers Wednesday signed into
law a measure allowing school
district boundaries to be left un-
changed despite enlargement of a
city’s limits.
For Larger Cities
The measure, which applies lo
cities of more than 165.000 popula-
Sce INSPECTION Page 8
9 Aboard Part
Of Ship Wreck
NEW YORK, March 12—UP—
Coast Guard cutters and aircraft
searched the stormy North Atlantic
1,000 miles east of New York
Thursday for the bow of the Lib-
erian tanker Ang.v missing since
an explosion and fire broke her in
two four days ago.
Eight or nine persons, including
the captain and his wife, were be-
lieved to be aboard the battered
bow.
Twenty eight crewmen were res-
cued Wednesday from the stern
section of the 9,000 ton motor ship
which split up enroute from the
Persian Gulf lo Philadelphia with
a cargo of 109,000 barrels of crude
oil. The Tanker’s radio apparently
was knocked out by the explosion.
No. (Location On
Turner May, Place
Made By Seaboard
Location was being prepared
Thursday lor Seaboard Oil Co. No.
6 Turner May well west of the the
city airport.
It will be 1541 south and 1369 feet
east of the section line—northwest
of No. 1 and west of No. 3.
Rowan & Hope are working to
complete city well No. 3-A.
North of the airport, Sun Oil Co.
No. 1 Shaw was drilling at about
4531.
Southwest of Clavtonville, Ralph
Collins 1-A is at 3837.
In South Trammell field. Sun
and Sunboard No. 9 Beatrice K.
Stone ts coring at 5669 after some
showings around 5300 where most
of the South Trammell wells have
been finished. Sun's latest TXL
well is coring at 5339.
Stanolind No. 1-E TXL well
which found two flush showings in
the King sand on drillstem tests
See LOCATION Page 8
Red Jets Shoot Up
Big British Plane
LUENEBURG, Germany. March
12 —UP—Swept-wing jet fighters
zoomed up out of Soviet-occupied
East Germany Thursday and shot
down a British Lincoln night bom-
ber in the Berlin-Hamburg air cor-
ridor with the loss of possibly four
lives.
German eyewitnesses said the
attacking fighters were Russian-
made. The British foreign office
said they were jets of a new and
previously unidentified type.
One member of the British plane
crew was killed. Three were miss-
ing. Three others, including the pi-
lot, were in hospitals in West Ger-
many.
German border guards said the
plane, after being ripped by sev-
eral bursts of machinegun fire from
the attacking planes, appeared to
explode in the air. Part of the
wreckage, they said, fell near the
Soviet zone village of Boitzcnburg
and the rest inside the air corri-
dor.
The attack was the second with-
in three days hy Soviet-type Com-
munist aircraft on western planes
flying over Germany.
An American Thunderjet was
shot down Tuesday over the Amer-
ican zone of Western Germany
when two Czechoslovak Russian-
built MIG-15s attacked two Amer-
ican patrol jets.
The British high commission for
Germany said in Bonn that one
survivor of the attack had been
found.
West German police and German
eye witnesses said the British plane
was attacked by the two fighters
and was shot down in flames.
It fell, they said, near the village
of Rosenthal—on the Elbe which
is the Iron Curtain frontier be-
tween East and West Germany.
Frau Magdalena Ahlert. who wit-
nessed the incident, said a British
air force sergeant parachuted from
the burning plane.
The sergeant, critically wound-
ed, apparently was attacked by the
jets while he was parachuling to
safety. Frau Ahlert quoted her
| husband, who saw the W'ounded
airman, as saying his parachute
was riddled with bullets and that
he was wounded in the hroat and
neck by machinegun bursts.
Frau Ahlert said the Soviet-type
planes carried out the attack di-
rectly above her home, which is in-
side the British zone of Germany.
"Two jet planes were circling
around it (the British plane1 and
were shooting at it,” she said.
She said the British plane, al-
ready smoking, first appeared ap-
parently from the direction of the
Soviet zone. The fighters were
circling it and firing, she said.
"Then the burning plane dis-
appeared into the clouds, followed
by the jets which made a broad
circle. They kept on shooting.”
British official sources in London
said it was not known if the plane
was a military or civil aircraft.
The plane’s route was apparent-
ly parallel to that of numerous
commercial planes which are be-
ing used to ferry refugees from
Communist East Germany out of
West Berlin and into West Ger-
many.
Mrs. H. A. Davis, 80,
Long Time Citizen,
Dies From Illness
Mrs. H. A, Davis, 80, whose
home was *t 1108 Oak, died in
Young Medical Center at 8:50 a.m.
Thursday. She had been a patient
there since being stricken a week
ago.
Funeral services arc to be held
at the First Baptist Church at 2:30
p.m. Friday with the Rev, W. H.
Colson of San Antonio officiating,
assisted hy the Rev \. B. Cock-
rell of Highland Heights Methodist
Church and J. Hassell Dubose. I
educational director of First Bap-
tist Church,
Mrs. Davis was born Dora Jane i
McCollum in Jackson Parish. La.,
on Aug. 10, 1872. She married Mr.
Davis in Cameron in 1890. He died j
several years ago while they lived
in Fisher County. The Davises had
lived in Sw'eetwater off and on I
since coming to this area. She j
returned here from Childress some j
four months ago.
Surviving are four daughters—
Mrs. A. H. Williams of Sweetwa- j
ter, Mrs. T. W. Frost of Dallas,
Mrs. H. A. Strother of Sweetwa-1
ter. and Mrs. N. D Davis of Arna- I
rillo; three sons—W. A. Lonnie)
Davis, who was ill at his home.
1310 Josephine, at the time of his J
mother’s death: Doyle Davis of
Sweetwater and K. D Davis of
Fort Worth; a sister, Mrs, A. J. j
Shaver of Waco; a half-sister, Mrs.
L. G. Roberts of Cameron; 14 j
grandchildren. 10
dren.
Interment will be in llotan Cem-
etery beside Mr. Davis' grave. Pat-
terson Funeral Home will direct.
Pallbearers will be G. P Williams.
Willburn Williams, Mel Gilliam
Jr.. James Greer, Ross Doyle Da-
vis Jr., Arthur Councilman. Joe
Dunlap, Allen Strother
Red ‘Fairy Tale’ Of
Sky Attack Rejected
WASHINGTON, March 12 —UP—I The U.S. reply, the second Amer-
The United States Thursday draft- j ican protest, is expected to demand
ed an angry rejection of Commun-! an apology for the "unprovoked
ist Czechoslovakia’s “fairy tale” ! and unjustified” attack, seek
claim that a pair of American jet assurances it will not be repeated,
fighters had penetrated Red terri-{ and build a case for demanding
tory before one was shot down1 approximately $200,000 indemnity
in flames.
The stiff American reply was
under preparation at the State De-
suggested warning the Communists
that “bullets not notes” will ans-
wer any new cold war attacks on
U.S. planes.
Tracked by Radar
for the wrecked plane.
‘Strongest Objection'
American Ambassador George
Wadsworth, acting on State De-
partment orders, objected in “the
strongest terms” to the Czech vio-
lation wri-the IL S. zone of Ger-
many and the attack on the two
U.S. rejection of the Czech U.S. jet fighters,
charges was based on the word of The fast action by ihe I S. gov-
the pilots, supported by ground ra- j ernment apparently caught the
dar watchers, that they had not j Reds off guard Their propaganda
crossed the German-Czech border effort to shift responsibility to the
during a routine patrol flight. In-! United States followed many hours
formed sources said radar opera-j later.
tors saw the attacking MIG-15 jet An Air Force spokesman said
fighters close in on the two U.S. the downed plane, flown by Lt.
F-86 Thunderjets 12 to 15 miles Warren G. Brown, who parachuted
over Allied territory in Germany. : to safety with only minor injuries,
State and Defense Department i and the other plane, piloted by Lt.
authorities said the Czech claim | Donald C. Smith, were under
that the planes were 25 miles deep , "constant ' radar observation. The
in Czechoslovakia was a lie and a official said 'radar plots definitely
Red coverup. An Air Force spokes-■ confirmed the facts that our air-
man called it a "fairy tale” and a I craft did not violate the Czech bor-
“fantastic excuse." 1 der.”
Boys Are Implicated In
Screwball' Shoe Thefts
Sweetwater’s “nuisance burglar-
ies" are believed to have been
solved today with the arrest of 15
teen-age youths here this week.
Police said Thursday that three
burglaries at Lake Sweetwater had
been cleared and the siege of shoe
thefts ended, it was believed.
, ____The burglaries have extended
great-grandchil- over a perjoc| 0f several months
with single shoes out of pairs, al-
ways belonging to school girls, be-
ing taken.
The cabins at the Lake were
entered more recently and led to
the arrest of the youths.
The youths appeared before ju-
venile Judge Lea Boothe Wednes-
day afternoon where they admitted
their parts in the various burg-
laries. They were released into the
custody of their parents of proba-
tion after promising to make resti-
tution for the damages done and
the items taken.
Thirteen of the group were ar-
rested in connection with the entry
into the Paul Watson cabin at Lake
Sweetwater last Friday night
when an estimated $200 damaee
was done to the building. The
group paid for the damages Wed-
nesday.
Two others were arrested in con-
nectionwith two burglaries of the
Fred Ohlenbuseh cabin with dam-
age to the cabin. Losses by Ihe
i owner will be repaid. Judge
| Boothe was told by the boys and
| their parents.
Under questioning by officers,
two of the boys admitted to a
number of the reported shoe
thefts. Police are continuing an in-
j vestigation.
I Judge Boothe said that the two
boys would be required to make
I restitution for the broken pairs of
| history to hold a cabinet post. The : shocs when ihe investigation is
first, Mrs. Frances Perkins, w as I completed.
Secretary of Labor in Franklin D j chief of Police Lloyd Rogers and
Roosevelt's Cabinet. members of the police department
The President's plan will go into , ma(je ,[u> arrests in connection
effect automatically in 60 days un- j burglaries,
less vetoed by either the House or 1
the Senate. A majority vote of the
chamber’s full membership is re-
quired to veto a reorganization
plan.
Mrs. Hobby, who helped set up
the Democrats for Eisenhower or-
ganization last year, now classes
herself as a "liberal Republican.”
She headed the Women's Army
Corps in World War II and was eo-
New Cabinet Department For
Health, Welfare Is Proposed
WASHINGTON. March 12 —UP-
President Eisenhower Thursday
proposed to Congress that the Fed-
eral Security Agency be transform-
ed into a full-fledged Cabinet de-
partment of health, education, and
welfare.
The new secretary of the depart-
ment will he Mrs. Oveta Culp Hob-
by. now FSA administrator.
The reorganization plan will be-
come effective if it is not disap-
proved by a majority vote of the
full membership of either the
House or Senate within 60 congres-
sional working days.
Mr. Eisenhower repeated his _
recommendation that Social Secur- editor and publisher, with her bus-
ily coverage be extended to tier- j hand, of the Houston Post when
sous not now protected, such as i Mr. Eisenhower named her to head
lawyers and farmers and also, the many-sided FSA.
that the food and drug laws be
strengthened and the federal gov-
ernment continues its assistance to
schools in defense areas.
As head of the FSA now technic-
ally known as an "independent
agency," Mrs. Hobby is already
sitting in on cabinet sessions by
special dispensation of the Presi-
dent. As head of a department,
she would go up in rank from "ad-
ministrator” to "secretary” and
become the second woman in U.S.
THE WEATHER
SWEETWATER— Temperature,
high Wednesday 71 degrees; low
Thursday morning, 49, Barometer
30.14, rising. Relative humidity. 50
per cent. Mostly cloudy, unsettled,
somewhat cooler.
WEST TEXAS — Generally lair
Thursday and Friday, a little cool-
er.
Van Flee) Charge
'Substantiated'
WASHINGTON, March 12-UP—
The Senate Armed Services Com-
mittee said Thursday that Gen.
James A. Van Fleet’s charge of
ammunition shortages in Korea
has been "fully substantiated.” It
directed a subcommittee to deter-
mine who-or-what-was responsible.
Van Fleet had said in testimony
before the committee that there
had been ammunition shortages in
Korea throughout the 22 months
that he was commander of the
Eighth Army and until he left Ko-
rea about a month ago. Chairman
Leverctt Saltonstall 'R-Mass.t of
the Armed Services committee
said Monday that ammunition sup-
plies to Korea have improved rap-
idly since Van Fleet left Korea.
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 60, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1953, newspaper, March 12, 1953; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth748650/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.