The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 214, Ed. 1 Monday, September 9, 1946 Page: 1 of 6

                                
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JLjNNIO
With Weldon
TODAY’S SQUIB—No wonder
newborn babies cry so much. If
you were only a few days old,
out of a job,, and owed the gov-
ernment $2,500, you'd squall too.
One of the largest crowds to
assemble on the streets of Ennis
in recent years, was on Main
Street Saturday night when the
American Legion gave away the
Ford. The Building Fund Cam-
paign of the American Legion was
considered a success due to the
splendid response of the Ennis
business firms and individuals.
And if you were in town Satur-
day night you know that a large
number of people were interested
in the campaign. K. G. McElroy,
post Commander, was very pleased
w#th the response and asked that
every contributor be thanked for
helping out the American Legion
and Ladies Auxiliary.
The scrimmage which was to be
held Saturday afternoon between
Forest Avenue High and the En-
nis Lions, was held. But it was
held at Ennis rather than at
Dallas where it was originaaly
planned. Some of the fans who
saw the scrimmage said that the
Lions showed lots of drive and
spirit and even though Ennis
may not be a threat to the dis-
trict, they believe we will have a
team that will play some good
ball games.
Frank Blair and Jim Moorman
were kept busy in the .scrimmage.
They were busy coaching the boys
and telling them where they could
make improvements. A scrimmage
of this type has a distinct ad-
vantage over a regular game, for
the coaches can point out a weak-
ness or mistake when it happens
rather that have to wait until
be man is taken out of the game.
Reports were that the Lions show-
ed up well against the heavier
Forest" team.
1 John Connell, now living in Dal-
las, was visiting in Ennis today
and following the usual Ennis
custom of having a cup of coffee.
He had to talk a little golf over
the cup of coffee—^another favoiite
past time in Ennis. Ned-Haynes
was not too happy over his golf
game. Said he would sell his
golf eiubs cheap. -We might sell
both our sets of clubs for we cer-
tainly have not been able to use
them the last few times we played.
The other golfers call it “easy
pickings.”
Bulgaria King
Plans Exile
Alter Election
• Sofia, Sept. 9. (U.P._—King Si-
leon II, the 9-year-old ruler of
lulgaria, appeared definitely today
) have lost his 3-year-old throne
<, official returns from Sunday’s
lebiscite indicated an overwhelm-
ig choice for a Republican form
[ government.
Almost complete returns an-
ounced by the house ministry
bowed that 3,800,000 Bulgarians
oted for a republic yesterday,
Dmpared with 179,000 favoring the
lonatrchy. There vfcre 119,000
lank and “slogan”, ballots cast,
ae ministry said.
A leftist has been predicted in
le Russian-occupied country which
)ined the Axis in# March, 1941,
nd declared war' against the
rnited States three months later.
King Simeon rules under a re-
ency council established under
rerman influence in 1943. The
auncil was reorganized in Septem-
1944, when Bulgaria was grant
Jan armistice by Russia.
Walter Nichol
Lodge to Meet
Tuesday Afternoon
The Walter Nicols Lodge No. 267
will meet in regular session at
1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
drives Home
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jolesch -return-
d Sunday from'Chicago, 111. where
hey spent their vacation. Mrs.
;adie Epstien and Miss Corinne
:erf, who were with Mr. and Mrs.
olesch, will leave there in a few
ays for;a visit, in New York City
efore returning to their home in
)allas. ~
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Wallace Asks
Retail' Men to
Conference
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GREEKS GET AN EYEFUL—Curious Greeks line the
harbor at Piraeus, Greece, to look at the USS Franklin
D. Roosevelt shortly after the giant carrier dropped
anchor for a four-day stay during a tour of Mediter-
ranean ports.
Steel Rail Intended
For China’s Railroads
Taken by Yugoslavia
Washington, Sept. 9, (U.P.)    —
Thousands of tons of vital steel
lail specially earmarked by Gen.
George C. Marshall for rebuilding
China’s railroads have been sent
instead to Yugoslavia, UNRRA re-
cords indicated today.
The records were made public
by Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H.,
who said the transfer apparently
was “engineered” by a Russian and
a Yugoslav who hold official UN-
RRA positions. He said he would
demand a full investigation by the
State Department.
The rails obtained for China on
'highest government priority at
the request of Marshall, President
Truman’s special envoy in the
negotiations to settle China’s civil
strife.
Howey*'". c > Aug. 7 and again
on Aug 9—the day Yugoslav fight-
ers shot down the first of two
unarmed American transports —
UNRRA’s industrial rehabilitation
division orders the greater part
re-routed to, Yugoslavia, the re-
cords indicated.
Bridges said “it seems ironic that
while ships carrying the bodies
of fliers shot down by Yugoslav
planes were traversing the Atlantic
in one direction, other ships were
traveling in the opposite direction
carrying steel for the Yugoslavs.’
Tlie records indicated that a
total of 8,251 tons of railvalued at
$337,348, were ordered to Yugo-
slavia as they awaited shipment
to China in U. S. warehouses.
88th Division
Today Arrested
Six Yugoslavs
_____ &
Trieste, Sept. 9 (U.P.)—Six Yu-
goslav soldiers were arrested by
the American 88th division today
shortly after a six-poqnd dynamite
bomb exploded in Trieste where
22 persons, including seven Ameri-
cans were injured yesterday by a
hand grenade.
The Yugoslav soldiers had five
hand grenades in their possession,
officials said,, when they were ar-
rested after the second explosion
marked a nenewal of antirAllied
violence in Trieste.
The Yugoslavs were nabbed about
three quarters of a mile from a
house occupied by Italians which
was the target of the dynamite
bomb.
The Allied Command charged
yesterday in a formal statement
that the Yugoslavs were haras-
sing the occupation forces and vio-
lating their agreement to guaran-
tee freedom of movement . along
an authorized route.
R. E. Sparkman
Died Suddenly
5 A. M. Saturday
Robert E. Sparkman, 69, Italy
Tex., justice of the peace and who
in years gone by, had served two
counties as an official, died sud-
denly at 5 a. m Saturday at his
home.
While Mr. Sparkman had been
in poor health for some time, his
family did not realize that his
condition was serious.
A native of Alabama, he moved
to Italy, from Hillsboro, Tex.,
about 25 years ago.
During his/ residence in Hills-
boro, he served Hill County two
terms as district clerk. Subse-
quently, he served Ellis County
two terms as a member of the
State Legislature. For the past
eight years, he had been Italy’s
justice of the peace. Mr. Spark-
man took a spirited interest in
historical, political and civic af-
fairs and numerous other com-
munity endeavors as well.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Minnie Sparkman, and two sons,
Robbie and Ward, all of Italy, and
a daughter, Miss Hilda Sparkman
Vernon, Texas.
Funeral Services were held
at 3 p. m. Sunday at the First
Methodist Church in Italy, with
the Rev. J. T. Gardner conducting,
assisted by the Revs. Calvin Jen-
kins and E. C. Cargill. Interment
took place in Italy Cemetery. Ru-
dolph Funeral Home of Italy was
in charge of arrangements.
Ellis County
Farm Meeting
Tuesday Night
Milton Wakefield, president of
the Ellis County Agricultural As-
sociation, announces that a regu-
lar monthly meeting will be held
Tuesday night Sept. 10, at 8 o’clock
in the district courtroom in Waxa-
bachie.
Dr. Herbert Donnell of Waxa-
i hachie will give his ideas on “A
Local Doctor Views the County
Health Needs.” Also R. W. Hed-
ges, manager of the Waxahachie
Chamber of Commerce, will talk
on “Waxahachie Chamber of Com-
merce and its Relation to Agri-
culture.”
Ladies are especially invited to
this meeting.
Bulgaria Votes
In Favor of
Republican Rule
Sofia, Sept. 9. . (U.P.)—Russian-
occupied Bulgaria appeared to have
chosen a Republican government
today on the basis of incomplete
(qttfVual returns from Sunday’s
Plebiscite on continuation of the
Monarchy.
In the Kubrat district, the Re-
publicans polled 24,200 votes, com-
pared with 947 for the regency
pf 9-year-old King Simeon II. The
Dryanov district reported 18,000
votes for a republics, compared
with 1,400 for the monarchy.
Complete results were not ex-
pected until late today, but returns
from the Pleven region, which in-
cludes 14 districts, showed a turn-
out of 90 per cent, with 91 per
cent of the voters favoring a Re-
publican form of government.
Holy Land In
Turmoil After
Dynamiting
Jerusalem, Sept. 9 (U.P.)—Blood
shed and dynamiting broke out in
the Holy Land today, the eve of
the London Palestine Conference,
when Jewish extremists sabotaged
the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railroad in
seven places.
A strenous manhunt by British
troops and police,, stretching back
into the Judean Hills; followed the
Series of explosions and gunfire
fusilades which shook Central Pal-
estine before dawn.
Jewish extremists raided two
trains, mined rail lines and killed
a British police sergeant in Haifa
during the outbreak.
British troops and police rushed
into Haifa after the shooting. A
surfew and search of the port
city were expected. Brisish air-
borne “Red Devils” prepared to
search Jewish settlements along
tht Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railroad.
All railroad traffic in Palestine
was halted after the explosions
while tracks were searched for
mines. Official sources said the
rail habotage did not cause ser-
ious damage. It was expetced
that railroad traffic would be re-
sumed later today.
Washington, Sept. 9    (U.P.) —
Secretary of Commerce Henry A.
Wallace has invited representa-
tives of over 50 national retal
trade associations here to discuss
retailing trends and problems dur-
_ ing a two-day conference this
| Thursday and Friday, Sept. 12 and
13.
Issuing his invitations, Wallace
said the department recognized the
important role the sale of goods
and services will play as postwar
production reaches its peak.
“Goods must be sold, buyers
must be served, and consumption
increased, if our factories are to be
kept busy producting goods,” Wal
lace said.
“The Department of Commerce
wants to be of the greatest prac-
tical assistance to the 1,800,000 re-
tailers of the country in the part
they play in reaching this objec-
tive.’'
Both the department and retail-
ers will be given an opportunity to
express their views. Key commerce
department executives are sched-
uled to tell the conference of ser-
vices available to retailers. In later
sessions the merchants will be in-
vited to advise the department
how it can be of the most aid to
them.
During part of this conference,
delegates will divide into six major
trade groups for discussion of spe-
cialized problems. The divisions
follow.:
!l. Food, tobacco, eating and
drinking places.
2.    Apparel, shoes, and general
merchandise.
3.    Drugs, books and stationery,
and jewelry.
4.    Furniture, hardware and farm
implements, appliances, building
matrials, fuel and ice, outomotive
and filling stations. I
5.    Miscellaneous trades, such as
florists, garden supplies, photo
dealers, music, optical, office ma-
chines, etc.
6.    Retail associations other than
single trade groups.
Teague Plans D. C. Trip
Col Olin Teague, new Congress-
man from the Sixth District, plans
to return to Washington with his
family the latter part of September
On his way to Washington he will
visit his mother at Mena, Ark.
Mrs. Teague’s mother now lives
in Washington, as does a sister of
the wife of the new Congressman.
Vacationing
Mrs. Blanche Menard, bookkeeper
for the Keever Funeral Home, is
taking her vacation.
Italy-Yugoslav Frontier
Plans Made by Big Four
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(NEA Telephoto)
BYRNES CALLS FOR A UNIFIED GERMANY—Secretary
of State James F. Byrnes, addressing German officials
and U. S. Military leaders in the tank-guarded Staats
Theater in Stuttgart, Germany, urged the early estab-
lishment of a unified Germany, rejected France’s claim
to the Rhineland and Rhur and warned Russia that the
United States does not consider Germany’s eastern
boundary fixed on the Oder River. Behind Byrnes, are,
left to right, Robert Murphy; Senator Arthur Vanden-
burg; Senator Tom Connally, and General Joseph T.
McNarney.
First Effect of Meat
Shortage Being Felt
Over Entire Nation
By R. H. SHACKFORD
United Press Staff Correspondent
Paris, Sept. 9 (U.P.)—The Big
Four are trying in private to agree
upon all details of the proposed
Italian-Yugoslav fronties and' the
boundaries for the sugested free
territory of Trieste, it was dis-
closed today.
Negotiations between die big pow-
ers are seeking to turn agreement
in principle upon the so-called
“French Line” into a solid, detail-
ed plan for presentation in the
Italian political commission.
Disclosure of further effots to-
ward an agreed big four policy
followed Soviet agreement to dis-
cuss Germany in the council of
Foreign Ministers in November, and
withdrawal of American objections
j to postponement of the United
Nations assembly meeting from
Sept. 23 to Oct. 23.
Chairman Lief Egeland of South
Africa told the Italian political
commission of the big four ef-
forts on Trieste and Venezia Giu-
lia. The commission was examin-
ing frontier amendments.
Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium
proposed creation of a drafting
subcommittee to make order out
of the widely differing suggestions.
Egeland asked him not to press
for a .subcommittee because the
sponsoring powers—the Big Four
—soon would submit a detailed
frontier proposal.
The big four meeting on Ger-
many two month hence will have
before it the plan "by Secretary of
State James F. Byrnes for a fedr
erated, central German govtrnment
No official Russian reaction has
been voiced to the proposal, put
forward by Byrnes last week at
Stuttgart.
Ennis Schools
Opened Doors
For New Year
Many Industries
Feel Effect Of
Shipping Strike
Industries dependent on sea-
borne cargoes began to feel the
impact of the shipping strike to-
day, while New York suffered the
effects of a week-long trucking
strike.
In the Maritime strike, Harry
Lundeberg, secretary of the strik-
ing sailors’ union of the Pacific
(AFL), announced that his con-
ference with Assistant Secretary of
Labor Philip Hannah failed to ef-
fect a settlement
Other labor developments:
1.    The Internaional Brotherhood
of Teamsters (AFL) at a rank and
file* meeting refused to vote on a
compromise proposal to end the
week-old trucking strike among
New York City and New Jersey
truck drivers.
2.    Pittsburg, Pa., residents pre-
pared for a total blackout after
president George L. Mueller of
the Independent Union of Du-
quesne Light Co. announced that
power workers would walk off their
jobs at one minute past midnight
tonight unless union demands are
met.
3.    Philip Murray, president of
the CIO, told delegates to a re-
gional meeting of CIO United
Steelworkers that the CIO planned
to demand portal-to-portal pay for
workers in all industries.
Chicago, Sept. 9 (U.P.)—The na-
tion began feeling the first effects I \
today of a meat shortage which
spokesmen for the meat industry
predict will be the worst in his-
tory.
Packers and retailers alike pre-
dict that butcher shops across
the country will have almost no
fresh meat by the end of the
week. In some cities, including
Chicago, and New York, the short-
age was felt already.
Thfc shortage promoted Rep. ,
Adolph J. Sabath, D., 111., to de- | b?lnS that of
The doors of the Ennis Public
Schools opened today as another
school year began. Registration
was carried on all last week, and
a full day’s schedule was fol-
lowed today.
Several new teachers have been
added to the faculty, the latest
the new band di-
mand a government investigation. | I'^ctoLMr. ^Tenci! ^.C^’ c<^mbl£ ^rom
Sabath, aiming his criticism at
the meat packers and the New"|
York Stock Exchange, denounced
“big business criminals who want |
to wreck the country for 30 lousy
pieces of silver.
‘The money-hungry interests
don’t care what happens to meat-
hungry plain people,” he said. “I
the Wilmer-Hutchins school.
Liberty Ship
Enroute Home
Alter Grounded
war
M
to ascertain whether there is col-
lusion and conspiracy.”
He said there was no justifica-
tion of a drop in the number of
(cattle shipped to the Chicago
yards from 40,00 to 300. A single
day’s cattle receipt’s totaled 40,000
before the restoration of price con-
trols on livestock,
Report Given of American Legion Meeting
Returns Home
Robert Lee Manning has returned
to his home in Mart after a visit
here in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
V. E. Manning1.
TH^WCATHSR
East ’’Texas—Partly cloudy this
afternoon, ' tonight and Tuesday.
Scattered thundershowers, mostly
occurring in the afternoon. Mod-
erate south to southeast winds on
the coast.
Yachts Get Clipper Basin
Miami, Fla. (U.P.)—The original
base for seaplanes flying between
Miami and South America, Dinner
Key, will be taken over by the city
and truned into a palatial yacht
basin this fall. The base attracted
thousands of ;sigl^t-seers when
the big clipper planes landed there.
The Markets
Cotton closed 42 points down to-
day.
Closed Closed
New York    Sat    Mon.
Oct ______________ 36.95    36.55
Dec. ______________36.97    36.55-60
The government estimate is 9,-
171,000 bales. This is 119,000 bales
less than the estimate of a month
ago.
By J. B. HUNTER
Official News Reporter
Sixth District, American Legion
Veterans of yesterday and vet-
erans of World War II converged
upon Galveston last week for the
28 th annual convention of the
State Department of the Ameri-
can Legion. The sessions continu-
ed for four, days and the atten-
dance was estimated at fully 5,000.
Friday was the concluding day of
the convention at which time Gov-
ernor-elect Beauford Jester addres-
sed the convention at the morning
session. Officers for the next year
were elected at afternoon session
which lasted until 7 o’clock that
night.
Jester said he would follow rec-
ommendations of the Legion and
other veterans organizations in
filling in the details of his out-
line for a revigorated commis-
sion.
“Texas does not now have a
i set up that can do an adequate
job for the veterans of this state.”
he declared as the convention
delegates cheered repeatedly in
the municipal pier auditorium.
Jester also spoke forcefully in
favor of national military pre-
paredness.
“It now is up to the second
generation of Legionnaires to push
i resolutely onward the Legion pro-
gram for preparedness. America
would not have been found un-
prepared at Pearl Harbor of the
nation had heeded the warning
of the Legion, a representative
body of men who have been in war
and know what it means.”
“I hone voters in the future
will inquire of candidates for po-
litical office, particularly in the
Congress, on how they stand on
this country’s readiness to pre-
vent another Pear Harbor.
“It is entirely conceivable
with this country holding 7 per
cent of the world’s population and
5C per cent of its wealth, that
there will be an attempt to read-
just this distribution.
“Furthermore, don’t let anyone
tell you there isn’t an attempt
from within to undermine our
form of government,” the gover-
nor nominee said.
Jester told the Legion mem-
bers of both wars he would give
the Legion and other veterans or-
ganizations “all the aid a gover-
nor can give.”
“The Legion is the nearest to
standing for 100 per cent Ameri-
canism of any organization in
America today,” he declared.
“The governor’s office will be
open to anyone with a question
of concern to veterans, because
in there will be a man you can
all call buddy,” Jester, a veteran
of the World War I and long-
time Legion member, concluded.
On Wednesday National Com-
mander John Stelle addressed the
Legionnaires and other prominent
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GOP Candidate in
6 th Withdraws in
Favor of Teague
Corsicana, Tex. ,Sept. 9—Mose
Blumrosen of Corsicana has with-
drawn as Republican nominee in
thie Sixth District Oongresional
race in favor of Col. Olin E.
Teague of Brazos County, the
Democratic nominee.
His withdrawal was announced
bj Hugh Loper, chairman of the
Republican Sixth Congresional
District committee.
Blumrosen said that “the peo-
ple of this congressional district
are to be congratulated on elect-
ing an ex-service man as their
Congressman,” and expressed his
belief that Teague “will efficient
ly represent this district and the
ex-servicemen to the satisfaction
of all.”
Teague was named the success-
sor of Luther A. Johnson of Cor-
sicana .in a special election on
August 24. Johnson resigned to
become a Federal Tax Judge in
Washington.
One Way to Get Customers
Washington, (U.P.) — Norton
Eenfer, :ce cream salesman, found
his auto scooter on fire. After fire
trucks arrived and squirted it out,
£aiT Francisco, Sept.' 9. (U.P)—
An 8,006 ton Liberty ship with 1,-
000 troops aboard proceeded to-
ward San Francisco today after
being temporarily grounded on the
Farallon Islands 25 miles off. the
Golden Gate.
The SS Bardstown Victory, which
was en route to San Francisco
from Yokohama, ran aground on
the treacherous rocks at about 3:30
a, m.    t
She immediately flashed word of
her distress. Army, Navy and
Coast Guard tugs put out to sea
in the pre-dawn darkness to try
to find the vessel.
The search, however, was made
unnecessary when the vessel sent
word two and a half hours later
that she needed no further as-
sistance and was coming to port
under her own power.
Kansas City
Child Found
After 5 Days
Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 9, (UP)
—Three-year-old Madeline (Toby)
Tobias, Kansas City, Mio., was
found safe in a farmhouse today,
five days after she was kidnaped
from her home.
The Tobias maid, Mildred Eve-
rett, 22, was arrested in another
home where she got a job yester-
day as a domestic.
The little girl was found at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Omer Fun-
houser, who told police that the
maid brought her to them yester-
day morning and promised them
they could adopt her.
Chief of detectives Robert Vance
said Miss Everett, who also was
known as Mildred King, had beep
in Terre Haute since last Friday.
He said the child stayed in three
different houses during the three
nights she had been here.
The maid, described in Kansas
City as a light-colored negress but
| by Vance as a “white girl,” was
held on a kidnaping charge. She
and the child disappeared from
the home of the child’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Tobias, last
Wednesday.
Vance said the little girl “didn’t
knew what it was all about,.”
Waxahachie Teacher
To Instruct at
New York University
Miss Yetta Mitchell, Phd. who
is visiting her brother and his wife
Mr. and Mrs. Clovis Mitchell in
Waxahachie, expects to leave soon
for New York City where she will
be instructor in speech at/the Uni-
versity of New York. Miss Mit-
ch received her Phd. degree in the
University of California last year.
Returns Home
Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Beckman and
daughter, Peggy, returned today
'from Chicago, *111., whlere Mr.
Beckman has attended a Railway
Fuel and Traveling Engineers As-
sociation Convention.
Returns Home
Mrs. Ben F. Siefried has returned
Benfer did a land office business 1 from visiting her children in Los
selling his ice cream to .spectators j Angeles, Calif., El Paso and San
attracted by the excitement. j Antonio, Texas.
Committees At
Work to Rafee
$1842 Quota Here
According to a report received
from co-chairmen Dr. A. L. Thomas
and Joe C. McCrary, the Sal-
vation Army Fund Drive in Ennis
is coming along nicely, although
they are unable to give any figures
at this time because all commit-
tees have not been able to work.
“It is a very busy time for En-
nis merchants and if they have
been unable to contact you to date,
you may leave contributions at
either of the banks,’” states Mr.
McCrary.
Ennis has a quota of $1842.00 to
raise, and it is the desire of the
co-chairmen and committee mem-
bers to raise this amount as soon
as possible.
The drive in Ennis is sponsored
by the Kiwanis Club with the co-
operation of the other clubs and
organizations.
Lawyer to Attend Meet
Earl B. Mayfield Jr. of Tyler,
now practicing law in Washington
after jiis service in the Navy, has
left for the state Democratic con-
vention in san Antonio.
Mayfield worked for Price Dan-
iel in his successful campaign for
Attorney General and probably
could have a place as an assistant
in Daniel’s office if he should de-
cide to return to Texas.