The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 234, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 2, 1946 Page: 1 of 6
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THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
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TODAY’S SQUIB: Even a good
egg has to be careful when the
wife is boiling-.
W. A. Pratt has -begun -work, on
the store building formerly occupi-
ed by the A&P Grocery on South 1
Dallas St. The A&P stock! was
moved out Saturday night, Sunday
and Monday and Mr. Pratt took
possession of the building on Tues-
day. Another grocery store is
planned by Mr. Pratt and worikv
men have already started repairs
and improvements. The opening
of the new store is planned for
around November 1.
IN FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR
ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 2, 1946
No. 234
The State Fair of Texas opens
Saturday at Dallas. The fair is
expected to be one of the greatest
ever held this year and -many En-
usites are planning to attend.
Clemont Lanier took his wife
and little daughter, Dixie Lynn, to
the circus last night. It was the
first circus for Dixie Lynn and she
really got a thrill from the big
'show.
It has been 41 days since the
last fire alarm in Ennis. This is
quite a record for our city and
since Fire Prevention Week is
just around the corner we can try
even harder to keep building and
building to the fireless days. On
August 22 we had a grass fire
alarm and since that time the fire
Marm has been Jsilent. , Let’s
keep it that way. The previous rec-
ord was only 32 days.
With sound fire prevention prac-
tices we can continue to have a
good record—one month—'two—six
months and even a year. Let’s put
our goal at a year—we have a good
start. Clyde Robertson, local in-
surance agent runs an ad every
iy in The News giving the nurn-
fcer of days since the last fire a-
larm. Let’s follow it daily and
let it be our reminder to practice
Ire prevention.
Three Catholic
Clergymen At
Yugoslav Trial
Zagreb, Oct. 2, (UP)—Three Ca-
tholic clergylmen were called be-
fore the Croatian Supreme Court
today in a prosecution attempt to
prove that Archbishop Aloysius
Stepinac actively oppose the Tito
regime in Yugoslavia.
(Bleated arguments over the alleg-
ed political activity of the Catho-
lic Church occurred for the first
time during the two-day-old trial.
All three judges joined the public
prosecutor and defense counsel in
(debating the question. At one time
the court president warned the at-
torneys to stop quarreling and
cautioned the spectators to main-
tain order in the courtroom.
Dr. Modesto Martincic, provin-
cial of Franciscans in Croatia,
touched off defense protestations
when he testified that he could
tell from Stepinac’s attitude that
the archbishop was waiting for
a change of regime.” Subsequent
statemnts of Martincic that the
Catholic Church was an “instru-
ment of politicians” were criticized
bitterly by Eitepianac’s counsel.
Mlartincic said the Catholic clergy
had worked “along the way”' of
the Fascist Ustachi organization
-and that he believed its activi-
ties “male the Catholic clergy in-
struments of those politicians who
wanted to make use of thc church-
es’ present difficult position to
provoke intervention.”
Jap Criiminals
[ave Some Hope
Of Acquitals
Tokyo, Oct. 2, (UP)—(Some hope
of escaping the death penalty was
evidenced among the 27 accused
Japanese war criminals today when
the learned details of the three
Nuernberg acquittals.
IFormer Premier Hideki Tojo
said he could state no opinion be-
cause he “did not know all the
fac-ts of the situation in Germ-
any.”
Mamora Bhigemitsu, who signed
the Japanese 'surrender aboard the
Battleship Missouri, -said the ver-
dict at Nuernberg had given “some
tope” to himself and the others.
Most of the Japanese defendants
smiled and appeared in good spir-
its as they discussed the Nuernberg
decisions.
THESE WENT FREE-—Three men who won full acquittal
in the Nuernberg war crimes trials, argue with MPs
that they do not want their pictures made. This pic-
ture was made in the courtroom at Nuernberg, Ger-
many after the trio had heard the words that meant
freedom. Left to right, Flans Fritzsche, Franz von
Papen and Dr. Hjalmar Schacht.
Yugoslavs Accuse US
Britain Of Betraying
Big Four Agreement
Paris, Oct. 2, (UP)—Mosha Pi-
jade of Yugoslavia accused the
United States and Britain today of
betraying the big four agrement
on Trieste and trying to perpetu-
ate a military base in the Adriat-
ic port under their joint rule.
Pijade said the two western pow-
ers “are trying to build a Chinese
wall, not to say an iron curtain,
betwen Trieste and Yugoslavia.”
He renewed the Yugoslav diplo-
matic attack on Anglo-American
policy in an Italian political com-
mission debate on the statute for
•governing Trieste. T'he Anglo-
American tactics on Trieste are
“ingenious and eoy,” he said, but
will not succeed.
Pijade claimed even Anglo-Amer-
ican military authorities in Trieste
realize the people of that are-a
want to be incorporated as an au-
tonomous republic in the Yugo-
slav federate republic, or at least
be closely linked economically with
Yugoslavia if the free zone is es-
tablished.
Pijiade said it was too late for
this conference to consider detail-
ed plans for Trieste, and urged the
question be turned back to the
big four.
Later Poland introduced a reso-
lution recommending that the con-
ference formally turn the Trieste
problem back to the big four with
privMon for another big four hear-
ing for Yugoslavia.
Carter Infant
Buried Monday
At Rice Cemetery
Flood Threat
To Several Towns
Less Likely Today
•Goliad, Tex., Oct. 2, CUIP)—The
threat of flood to towns lying in
the path of the San Antonio River
below Sian Antonio was diminished
today.
Sheriff c. M. Harbison of Gbliad
reported that the waters of the
river had leveled off at 39 feet, five
below the 44' foot flood level. He
said Goliad residents who had
fled to higher ground in the face
of a predicted flood were returning
to the irhomes in the lowlands.
Goliad had prepared for a dam-
aging overflow after a weather
bureau prediction that the river
would hit five feet above flood
level in this city of 1,500 popula-
tion. The forecast followed a
flash flood which claimed the lives
of nine San Antonio residents and
caused damage estimated upward
to $5,000,000.
Meanwhile, the San Antonio Ri-
ver was slowly winding its way
down to the Gulf of Mexico after
its second rampage in 25 years.
Mrs. C. C. Merritt
Died Tuesday At
Dallas Hospital
Mrs. C. C. Merritt, 45, passed a-
way Tuesday afternoon in a Dal-
las hospital where she was taken
for medical treatment. She had
been ill since last week.
Funeral services were held at 4
o’clock Wednesday afternoon at
the Keever Chapel, with F. L.
Smith, minister of the; Church of
Christ of Houston, Harvey Porter
and Ernest Finley of Ennis officiat-
ing. Interment was made in the
Myrtle Cemetery.
Mrs. Merritt, formerly Cora Ea-
son, was born in Garrett April 21,
1901 and had lived in this com-
munity all her life. She was mar-
ried here Dec. 25, 1918, to Chattum
C. Merritt, who with one daughter
survives, Mrs. W. I. R'afoe, Jr. of
Ennis, also her mother, Mrs. Cora
Eason of Garrett, four brothers,
Tom and Lester Eason of Waxa-
hachie, Joe Eason of Palmer and
Olin Eason of Ennis and one sis-
ter, Mrs. V. H. Robinson of Waxa-
hachie. Her father, D. E. Eason
passed away here in October 1913.
Mrs. Merritt was a member of
the Church of Christ of Garrett,
and was a member of Davidson
Grove No. 89, Woodmien Circle of
Ennis.
Strikes Tie-Up Shipping in All
Major Ports; Transportation Hit
mn mtWk
Jeanne Harkins
Named Lions Club
Sweetheart
Funeral services fop Martha Ann
Carter, infant daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. C. C. Carter, Alma, who
died early Monday at the P. and
S. Hospital in orsicana, were held
at 4 p.m. Monday with burial at
Rice.
ISiurvivors are the parents, two
sisters, grandmothers, Mrs. A. O.
Carter, Bartlett, and Mrs. Mattie
Riley, Kountze.
Agricultural
Leaders Invited
To Meeting Oct. 4
All agricultural leaders in the
county have been invited to at-
tend, the district meeting of the
Farm Bureau Federation which
will be held in Dallas, Friday, Oc-
tober 4,th, in the Jefferson Hotel.
The program has been arranged
by Judge C. C. Randle and coop-
j erating with him are the members
of the executive committee of the
Ellis County Agricultural Associa-
tion. They have been asked to
meet at County Agent W. M.
Love’s office by 8:00 o’clock, Fri-
day morning and go in a body to
the Dallas meeting. Cars will be
available for transportation for
those who do hot have their own.
Miss Jeanne Harkins was pre-
sented’ as the Lions Club Klweet-
heant at the regular weekly lun-
cheon of the club Which was held
Wednesday noon in the Texas
Power & Light Co. assembly room
with Joe Haiwkins, president of the
club presiding. The presentation
address was made by the Rev.
Leslie Seymour, and Miss Eirnnla
Jean Sims pinned on the corsage,
a mammoth white Chrysanthe-
mum tied with a white Satin rib-
bon.
Pete Barney, program chairman
introduced Lit. E. V. Doty, Staff
Sergeant James Stegall and T-
Sgt. W. Russell of Dallas, who
presented the program as a feature
of tihe recruiting program now
underway by the United States
Army. The program included a
movie depicting army life in the
Bavarian Alps.
Other members of the recruiting
party were introduced, Cpl. D. E.
Boyd, who is replacing S-Sgt. Jo-
seph W. Bates for the Ennis ter-
ritory.
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The nation’s new strike wave
tied up shipping at all major ports
today, ciult production in Pitts-
burgh’s heavy industries and af-
fected public transportation in five
cities.
Strikes also affected motion pic-
tures and newspapers. The major
developments:
Prospects for settling the nation
wide shipping strike brightened as
the government came through with
a peace formula designed to over-
come a Stumbling block in West
Coast negotiations.
'Special sheriff’s deputies were
sent to Hollywood film studios
with the power to make wholesale
arrests in the event of more blood-
shed on the picket lines.
The number of idle workers in
Pittsburgh rose t.o 70,000' as the
strike of 3,500 power company em-
ployes entered its ninth day ap-
parently no nearer settlement.
Walkouts affected transportation
at Columbus, O., New York, Chi-
cago, Tacoma, Wash., and Pitts-
burgh.
In the Maritime strike, hundreds
of ships rode idly at anchor and
the Association of American Rail-
roads clamped an embargo on
freight shipments to strike-bound
•ports.
At Washington, howevr, the gov-
ernment exerted heavy pressure
for settlement ip the second day
of the tie-up. The maritime com-
mission promised to extend to all
government-owned ships any agree-
ment on union security reached
on the East Coast and the Gulf.
(NEA Telephoto)
NAZIS FOUND GUILTY, RECEIVE SENTENCES—Pictured are live Nazis who were !
found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Mili-
tary Tribunal at Nuernberg, Germany. The five pictured and those whose names
are in inset, lower rightt, all received death sentence Seven of. the.,,twenty-two Nazis
tried were given life terms, while' three, Franz von Papen; Hjalmar Schacht; Hans
F’ritsche were aquitted.
Anti-Suicide Vigil Kept By-
Guards on Doomed Nazi Men
(Continued on page three)
Hull Appeals for Peace
As He Lies Crictically
111 In Naval Hospital
The Markets
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70 points
up to-
day.
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Washington, Oct. 2, (UP)—The
weary but courageous voice of
Cordell Hull appealed dramatically
for peace and big five unity today
j as the beloved, elder statesman lay
| critically ill in a hospital on his
i 75th birthday.
Men the worid over watched in-
tently as the father of the United
Nations, gravely ill from a stroke
two nights ago, struggled for his
life at the nearby Bethesda, Md.,
Naval Hospital. His condition took
a tu'rn for the worse yesterday af-
ternoon.
The hospital’s latest report, is-
sued last midnight, said Hull’s
condition remained unchanged.
Shortly before suffering the
stroke, the white-haired former
Secretary of State penned w'hat
may be his final plea—and warn-
ing—to the statesmen of the world.
His friends had urged him to draft
the statement in conection with
his. 75th birthday anniversary to-
day.
Noting that' “dangerous” strains
are tugging at the ties ■ that once
bound the big powers together in
•a victorious alliance, Hiull’s state-
ment said a “special responsibility”
still rests on Britain, China, France
iRIussia and the United States to
lead the world to international ac-
cord.
“No matter how laborious the
task,” his message said, “If the
large nations can agree and act
together to that end, then there
is hope that our military victories
of a year ago will be turned into
enduring peace.”
Then came the warning:
“Incalculable disaster would re-
sult if these nations should become
irreconcilably divided, either with-
in or among themselves.”
There was a message, too, to
the smaller nations— an appeal to
“keep faith with those ideals of a
brotherhood of peace, justice and
freedom which inspirited our war-
time unity and our wartime ef-
forts to insure unity among us af-
ter victory.”
Newspaper Week
To Be Observed
At Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis clubs throughout the
United states, Canada and Alaska
will observe National Newspaper
Week;, Oiot 1 to 8, by inviting pub-
lishers and editors to participate in
forums on community needs and
necessary civic improvement pro-
jects.
Newspaper Association Managers,
Inc., sponsor of National Newspap-
er Week, announced recently that
the slogan of the 1946 observance
will be “A Free Press—Voice, of
Freedom, Guardian of Liberty.”
This year’s theme, “The Newspaper
as a Public Servant,” will serve as
the basis for the Kiwanis round-
tables.
Kiwanis International has par-
ticipated in the observance of Na-
tional Newspaper Week almost
from, its inception seven years ago.
Publishers, editors and reporters
are invited to club meetings where
contributions of thejaress to the
•community are annually recogniz-
ed.
Need for a world-wide free press
as a means of preserving the peace
also will be discussed by clubs
during the week, it was learned.
Many clubs have indicated they
will sek the support of the local
press in Kiwanis-sponsored cam-
paigns for siuich projects as tax
economy, law enforcement, recrea-
tion arks, airport construction, vet-
eran housing, city beautification,
street improvements, graft pros-
ecution, fire prevention, soil con-
servation and community building.
The Kiwanis Clulb of Ennis will
hold its National Newspaper Week
meting at noon October 3' at the
Texas Power & Light, according to
the Club President Rev. S. T.
Francis.
Those who will participate in
the program include R. W- Nowlin,
editor of The Ennis Daily News,
who will be the guest speaker.
There will be a meeting of the
directors immediately after ad-
journment.
New Commerce
Head Arrives
From London
New Yolk, Oct. 2, (UP)—W. Av-
erell Harriman, former ambassa-
dor to Great Britain, arrived at
Laguardia Field aboard- a Pan-
American Clipper at 5:40 a.m. to-
day.
{Blarriimn was en route to Wash-
ington to take over his new du-
ties as Secretary of Commence, suc-
ceeding Henry A. Wallace.
Faithful Workers
To Meet Thursday
With Mrs. Scott
The Faithiful Workers Class of
the Tabernacle Baptist Sunday
School will meet Thursday evening
at 7:30 o’clock at the homie of Mrs.
M. D. Scott.
Nuernberg, Oct. 2, (UP)—Her-
nwsfrn Goering and the 10 other
doomed Nazis began their last
dreary two weks of life today un-
der an anti-suicide vigil with vir-
tually no hope of an allied council
reprieve from the hangman’s rope.
The 11 men under death sentence
by the International Tribunal had
nothing to do but sit and await
Oct 16. The trial excitement was
over, their gallery gone. They had
no pi'ospeet of seeing their fam-
ilies again.
Eevrything indicated that any
clemency appeals they make to the
Allied control council before the
Saturday midnight deadline would
be only for the record.
Without necUifcies, razor blades
knives, breakable furniture—any-
thing they might use to commit
suicide—the 11 were restricted to
their cells 23 hours each day. The
other hour w'as for rigidly guard-
ed exercise.
Every minute in their 325-odd
(Continued on page six)
Mrs. W. R. Hughes Guest
Speaker at Garden Club
Reassembly Meeting
The Ennis Garden Cluib met a/t
3:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at
the Methodist Bungalow for fall
reassembly git which time Mrs. W'.
R. Hughes delivered an interest-
ing address on “Arrangement of
Tables.”
Mrs. Hi R. Thomas, president of
the club, presided and Mrs. Selma
Rains introduced Mrs. Hughes. In
her introduction Mrs. Rains said
that Mrs. Hughes is a member of
the Founders Club, Dallas Garden
Cliub, and the Dallas Woman’s
Club. She is also a member of the
Garden Club of America, and is
active in many garden projects in
Dallas. She is on the Dallas Gar-
den Club Committee of the Lit-
tle Mexico Garden Cluib, which
committee is functioning in bet-
tering conditions of the Latin peo-
ple, therefore making better rela-
tions between our neighbors of the
South.
Mrs. Hughes’ lecture on table
arrangements was illustrated with
linens, glass, silver, china , and
flowers, co-ordinating these in an
artistic table picture. She illus-
trated these and also took her
audience back to the beginning of
each in the mating,' therefore de-
monstrating tihe origin of each,
giving her audience a better ap-
preciation and understanding of
the texture, quality and beauty of
principals. Her portrayal of the
table settings presented an attrac-
tive picture of the various ar-
rangements, displaying the kind of
glass, china and floral arrange-
ment to select for every occasion.
Mrs. Hughes left with her audi-
ence the thought that “basic
i things are important.”
Hostesses
Hostesses for the meting were
Mrs. Lou Ella Allen, Mrs. A. E.
Rawlins and Mrs. R. A. Clarady.
Attractive year books, with blue
covers, carrying between its cov-
ers, the names of officers and
committees, and the program out-
(Continued on page six)
Navy Orders
Long-Range
Patrol Planes
Washington, Oct. 2, (UP)—The
Navy, highly-pleased at the tacti-
cal possibilities of its record-
breaking “Truculent Turtle,” has
contracted with Lockheed Aircraft
Corp-. for an undisclosed number
of the longriange patrol planes, it
was disclosed today.
Navy officers said the planes
would be formed into squadrons
and placed at strategic naval bases
throughout the world as soon as
deliveries were made. They did
not reveal the size of the contract.
The “Truculent Turtle,” one of
theP2,V-type planes, established a
new world’s non-stop flight record
when it landed yesterday at Cbl-
rmbus, O., after a 55 1-4 hour
flight from Perth, Australia. The
big' blue plane,, despite strong
headwinds and foul weather, trav-
elled 11,237 miles before it finally
landed.
Police Seek Man
With Yearning
To Kiss Girl
iWiaxahachie, Tex., Oct. 2, (UP) —
The local police and sheriff’s de-
partments have a tough order: to
find a man with a yearning to
kiss a girl on a street.
A complaint was filed recently
by a Waxahachie girl who Reported
that when she -and a group of
girls recently left a local cafe for
her home, a man started walking
behind her. She said that he
caught up with her, held her,
and kissed her. She then ran
home to telephone police.
Fire Department
To Have Meeting
7s30 P. M. Thursday
There will be a regular meeting
of the Ennis Fire Department
Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock in
the club room at the Fire Sta-
tion. All members are urged to
be present. -
Meat Shortage
Democratic If
Nothing Else
Millionaires, opera singers, cat-
tle rancher's and movie stars dem-
onstrated today that the meat
shortage is democratic if no+^iuj
else. They had no meat for din-
ner either.
Neither did the meat packers or
the government officials who con-
trol meat prices.
Daniel W. Bell, a member of the
price decontrol board which put
ceilings back on meat last Aug.
20, had chicken stew for dinner
last night. His wife called it
Brunswick stew. IShe said it was
made out of chicken, tomatoes,
corn, lima beans, potatoes and on-
ions.
“I go i to the grocery store and
the butcher blames me for every-
thing, just because my husband is
a member of the decontrol board,”
Mrs. Bell said, “All the members’
wives are having a pretty tough
time of it.”
'Chairman Roy L. Thompson of
the decontrol board said his wife
is out of town and he has been
eating in restaurants. But he said
he was “a little self-conscious” a-
bout ordering meat in Washington
restaurants. He eats mostly sea-
food.
Acting Secretary of Agriculture
Norris E. Dodd ate a chicken din-
ner last night.
•At Dalhart, Tex., in the heart of
the cattle country, Floyd Elliot,
manager of the DeSoto Hotel,
owns 257 two and three year olid
prime white-faced steers. He had
a frbit plate for dinner.
Davidson Grove
Met For Monthly
Business Meeting
At the business meeting of Da-
vidson Grove 89, Woodman Circle
Tuesday, the usual monthly fi-
nancial reports were given for the
previous months, and the minutes
■were read.
One application was received for
membership, and favorably acted
upon. Two cards of thanks were
read and cheer cards and visits
reported having been made. Plans
were made for attending the Clov-
er Leaf district convention to be
held in Waxahachie on Oct. 10.
The charter was draped in lov-
ing memory of pioneer miembers,
sovereigns, Mary McCulloch and
Nellie McKay, whose passing, the
Grove deeply regrets. Loving
words were spoken of each life
as a beautiful example and in-
spiration for others. Bbth sov-
ereigns filled various offices in
the Grove in, the past.
The Mizpah benediction • closed
the Grove’s activities.
Home In Ambulance
'Mrs. Thad Barrington was
brought in the Keever ambulance
from the Gaston Avenue Hospital
in Dallas, to the home of her pa-
rents, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Dun-
kerley.
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