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JCjNNiO
With Weldon
TODAY’S SQUIB: Nothing fills
you quicker nor fools you more
than soup.
We have received a card from
Miss Emma Sims, bookkeeper for
The Ennis Daily News, who is
spending her . vacation this week at
Mineral Wells. She said they en-
joyed a rain there this week. We
could certainly stand one in Ennis.
THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
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IN FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR
ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1946
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F. L. Wadsworth said the reason
he needed a shave this morning
was because he got his face all
lathered up and then discovered
that he did not have a razor
blade. Maybe he should buy a few
from his own store. He was kid-
ding us about needing a shave the
other morning—at least we were
not out of blades.
/ Jim Moorman, high school foot-
ball coach, stopped by our office
yesterday afternoon. He was dirty,
hot and tired—he had proof that
he had been working on his house
which he recently bought and is
fixing up. Says he is going to
get moved soon now.
- Jim said that the Ennis team
might not be slated to win many
games in the district race but they
were going to be in there scrap-
ping all the way and putting plen-
ty of thrills into the game for the
spectators. He believes in a strong
offense for if you make enough
touchdowns you1 are going to win
your share of the games. And
from past experiences, with Frank
Blair as line coach, Ennis will
have a strong defense. With the
staff of coaches that we have now
we believe the Liolis will have a
good ball team. Let’s '-make this
a big football year in Ennis—let’s
back our team and our coaches.
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Tomorrow is the day to vote. We
lave reminded our readers to go
o the polls and vote—we have
lone this on numerous occasions
ind now we take this last chance
o say take advantage of your
irivilege to vote for the men you
/ant in office.
' The News will again give out the
.lection returns Saturday night.
Come on down and join in the
election party. Results will be giv-
en out as soon as they start
coming in from over the county.
Cost oi living
Increases 9%
Past Year
By CHARLES II. IIERR OLD
UP Staff Correspondent
Washington, Aug. 23, (UP)—The
over-all cost of living, paced by
higher food prices, increased nine
per cent in the year ending July
a government survey showed
xbday.
Vrhe Labor Department’s Bureau
of Labor Statistics said that 5.?
per cent of the general rise occur-
d between June 15 and July 15
re jump brought to 53 per cent
re total increase in living costs
since August, 1939, the month be-
fore the war began.
BLS previously had reported a
5.5 per cent increase for the June
15-July x15 period in a prelimin-
ary survey. Complete figures now
available, pushed the first figure
up .3 per. cent.
BLS said food led the upward
trend of prices, with ipost of the
rise occurring during the lapse of
price controls. . Food prices rose
13.8 per cent between mid-June
and mid-July—the largest monthly
change ever recorded. The larg-
est previous monthly increase was
nine per cent from March to April
1917.
Meats advanced 29.6 per cent
amL-^airv products 21.2 per cent
inW|6 June-July period. Other
impoinnt foods went up 3.7 per
cent. ,
Prices on foods on which sub-
sidies had been paid prior to July
i rose 18.8 per cent and all other
foods increased 4.6 per cent dur-
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Funeral Services
For J. D. Boucher
In Rice Today
Funeral services were held this
afternoon at 3 p.m. for J. D.
Boucher in the First Methodist
Church at Rice., Texas. Inter-
ment was made in the Rice Cem-
etery. '
Mr. Boucher died Wednesday
night of a heart attack in his
Houston home He was 55-years
of age. He is survived by his wid-
ow and one son, Ted, of the home
address.
Several relatives from Ennis .at-
tended thet^tmeral.
Tito Bow to Ultimatum
(NEA Telephoto)
YUGOSLAVIA GIVEN STERN WARNING—Seated at his
desk in the Yugoslavian Embassy in Washington, Dr.
Sergije Makiedo, embassy counselor, reads communica-
tions with his government concerning the stern warn-
ing issued to Yugoslavia by the United States. The U. S.
State Department gave Dr. Makiedo for his government,
a scathing note demanding the release of imprisoned
American airmen, held following a forced crash landing
near the Austrian border.
Saturday’s Voting Is
Expected to Be Heavy
He faced the dangers and hard-
ships of war for us—the least we
can do for him is to vote for
JAMES H. MULKEY for County
Judge.
' All plans have been completed
for the primary run-off election
Saturday in Ellis county. Ballot-
ing throughout tbs county is ex-
peet&tL^ ob Migtvtiy “treater- than
that of the first primary.
Ellis countians will flock to the
polls to cast their votes for the
candidates of tneir choice. Ellis
county voters will select only four
candidates besides the state office
seekers. One county race, two
commissioners and one precinct
chairman will be decided.
Voters will also be given a ticket
for voting in the special election
for the unexpired term of Luther
A. Johnson, resigned member ot
Congress from the 6th District.
Tom Tyson of Corsicana withdrew
from this race leaving Olin Teague
unopposed in the run-off primary.
Elsewhere over the state, an es-
timated 1,000,000 voters are ready
to cast their votes in one of Tex-
as’ heaviest run-off ballotings in
recent years.
China War
Spreads to
Manchuria
Nanking, Aug. 23, (UP)—China’s
mushrooming civil war spread into
Manchuria today with heavy fight-
ing reported northeast of Mukden
as die-hard peace negotiations
continued their efforts in Nanking.
The newspaper Esin Min Pao
said communist troops swarmed
down to the banks of the .Sungari
Rive r, occupying government
bridgeheads and engaging nation-
alist- forces in the Hailung area,
130 miles northeast of Mukden.
Gen. Chou Eu-Lai, chief com-
munist negotiator, and Premier T.
V. Soong, Chiang Kai-Shek’s bro-
ther-in-law and president of the
executive Yuan, renewed peace
talks in the capital as tension in-
creased throughout China.
V-2 Rocket Misfires
Again in Test Run;
None Injured
White Sands Proving Ground, N.
M., Aug. 23, (UP)—Army officials
today lauded “quick thinking” on
the part of launching and observa-
tion crews for avoiding a serious
accident when a German V-2
rocket misfired yesterday.
The rocket, 11th to be tested
at the proving grounds here, gain-
ed an altitude of only a few hun-
dred feet before it returned to
earth, approximately 1,500 yards
from the launching site. The im-
pact burst the rocket into flames
which could be seen for miles. No
one was hurt.
Ennis News to Give
Election Returns
Saturday Night
The News will again give out
the election returns Saturday
night. The returns will be an-
nounced over the public ad-
dress system and also posted on
a board in front of The News
office.
Returns will be given out just
as soon as they start coming in
and will continue as long as it
is< necessary to give complete
returns.
The public is invited to at-
tend the election party.
Troopship Sails
From Cyprus to
Avoid Blowup
Jerusalem, Aug'. 23, (UP)—The
British- troopship Empire Heywood
sailed secretly for Cyprus with
700 Jewish refugees before dawn
today, safely evading threatened
underground efforts to blow up the
vessel.
V
Troops and police remained on
the alert while the Empire Hey-
wood slipped away from Haifa so
secretly that her captain didn’t
even pick up sailing papers in the
port manager’s office.
A mysterious voice, probably
from the Hagana resistance organ-
ization, warned the port manager’s
office by telephone a short time
earlier that an attempt would be
made to destroy the Heywood.
Indian Painting in
Sand Preserved
For Posterity
Salt Lake City, (UP)—Attorn-
ey John S. Boyden of Salt Lake
City has a Navajo Indian religi-
ous sand picture preserved in lac-
quer—believed to be the first and
only one ever allowed to he pre-
served by an Indian medicine
man.
The Indian Ila-Ta-Lee, or Joe
Lee of Lukachukai, Arizona,
painted the picture with vivid
natural sands while in Salt Lake
City visiting his white friend,
Boyden. The attorney has been
active in Indian legal affairs for
many years.
As Lee painted the six-foot
sand picture, Boyden saturated
the bright-colored sand strokes
with $100-a-gallon lacquer. The
prayer-picture has been used for
centuries by the Navajo tribe to
cure riightsickness.
Trustees Meet
To Adopt School
Budget Thursday
The Board of Trustees of the
Ennis Incdcpendcnt School Dis-
trict will meet in special session,
Thursday, August 29, 1946 for
the purpose of adopting a bud-
get for the school year 1946-47.
The meeting will be held in
the Superintendent’s office at
7:00 p. m.
Any taxpayer or patron of the
Ennis Independent School Dis-
trict is cordially invited to at-
tend and participate in the meet-
ing.
A. L. Thomas, Chairman
Board of Trustees
Ennis Independent school
District
BULLETINS
Rio De Janeiro, Aug. 23, (UP)
President Enrico Gaspar Dutra
has established an indefinite em-
bargo of foodstuffs, hides and
lumber, in reply to popular clam-
or against the constant rise in
the pric^ of staple commodities.
London, Aug. 23, (UP)—The
Moscow radio quoted a Tass dis-
patch from Belgrade today as
saying that Yugoslavia, in a let-
ter to the United Nations secre-
tary general, accused the United
States of iUegally holding Yugo-
slav passenger ships and other
vessels.
Bad Nauheim, Aug. 23, (UP),—
Maj. Herbert W. Bluhm was ac-
quitted by an eight-man military
court today of charges of com-
plicity in the mistreatment of
U. S. Soldiers at the Lichfield,
England, detention center.
Go After Wife’s
Suitor with Gun,
Judge Tells Colonel
San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 23, (UP)
An Army Air Forces Colonel, who
already has petitioned for an in-
junction to prevent a suitor from
“seeing and molesting” his wife,
has been’ advised by a Texas Dis-
trict judge to go after the suitor
“with a 12-guage shotgun in Tex-
as style.”
The advice was passed on to Col.
John F. Guillett, commanding of-
ficer of Goodfellow Field, San An-
gelo ,by Judge Robert W. B. Ter-
rell of 37th District Court.
Terrell said Guillctt’s only other
course was “to divorce his wife.”
The injunction brought by Guil-
lett seeks to stop his wife’s al-
leged suitor, Clyde Grissom of San
Antonio, from “visiting, telephon-
ing or harassing” Mrs. Lorenc
Guillett. The* petition charged
Grissom has been making from
“20 to 30 telephone calls a day.”
, • (NEA Telephoto)
CREW ABOARD CRASHED AMERICAN PLANE—Pictured above are three members
of a five-man crew believed to have been aboard the second TJ. S. plane shot down
Monday near the Yugoslavian boarder by Yugoslavian fighter planes. Although re-
ports have indicated that at least three were killed, it is not know which of the crew
are still alive. Left to right: Capt. Ronald Li. Claeys, pilot; Capt. Harold Farnsley
Schreiber, co-pilot; and Capt. E. H. Freestone. Capt. Schreiber’s home is at 1103
State St., New Albany, Indiana. The other home addresses are not available at pres-
ent.
Pravda Reports
Mass Replacment
Of Red Leaders
Moscow, Aug. 23, (UP)—A re-
port to the Ukrainian communist
party’s central committee of a
“mass replacement of leading party
personnel” was published today by
the official communist organ
Pravda.
N. S. Khruschev, member of
Russia’s powerful Politburo and
first secretary of the Ukrainian
communist party, told the commit-
tee at Kiev that the replacements
'of party leaders had been going
on for some time, and still was in
progress.
The move was made as a result
of mistakes in selecting party per-
sonnel, Khruschev said in the re-
port prnited by Pravda.
In the last 18 months, Khruschev
said, 38 per cent of all the secre-
taries of the regional party com-
mittees have been replaced, as
well afe 64 per cent of all the pres-
idnts of executive committee and
two-thirds of the directors of ma-
chine and tractor stations.
Khruschev addressed the Uk-
rainian central committee in con-
nection with decisions taken by the
Soviet Union’s central committee
on a Ukrainian report concerning
the selection and training and dis-
tribution of party leaders in the
Ukrainian organization.
Pony Only 22 Inches High
Moline, 111. (U.P.) — Standing
only a wobbly 22 inches, one of the
smallest pony colts ever foalsd in
this region is learning its way
around a shady enclosure at Slim’s
pony farm, just outside town.
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(NEA Telephoto)
B-29 BQMBER BECOMES AMBULANCE—A B-29 Bomber.
became an air ambulance to carry 6-month old David
Chapman from Augusta, Georgia to Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, to have a pin he swallowed removed from his
throat. The operation was performed at the Temple
University hospital in Philadelphia. Holding. David in
his arms is Lieut. William F. Palmier. Marshall, Texas,
pilot of the plane, and looking over Palmer’s shoulder
is Mrs. Helen Chapman, David’s mother.
UN Works on Treaty
US-Slav Crisis Ends
Ennis Stores to
Close Labor Day
A majority of the Ennis busi-
ness houses’ will be closed on
Labor Day. In a survey con-
ducted by the Retail Merch-
ants Association the merchants
voted to remain closed for the
day.
The survey showed that the
Tocery stores will also elose.
US, Russia
Rift Averted
By Slav Action
Washington, Aug. 23, (UP)—The
gravest postwar rift between the
United States and the Russian-
dominated world eased today as
Yugoslavia promised “full satis-
faction” for shooting down two
unarmed American tran sport
planes.
American officials, gratified at
Marshal Tito’s prompt reaction to
the U. S. ultimatum, awaited offi-
cial reports from Belgrade before
drafting demands for redress for
the damage, deaths and injuries
inflicted when the two American
planes were downed by Yugoslav
aircraft.
The State Department declined
official comment on the turn of
events. But there was a strong
feeling here that Yugoslavia’s
seemingly cooperative a 11 i t u de
would make it possible to settle
(he incident in direct negotiations,
without the need of referring it to
(.he United Nations Security Coun-
cil.
Grade Crossing Peril Solved
Erie, Pa. (U.P.)—-Engineers of the
Bessemer Railroad don’t take it
for granted that motorists heed
crossing warnings. They bring
their trains to a dead halt at each
intersection.
Bessemer has had no serious
crossing accidents since the ruling
was established in the early days
of the 53-year-old line.
By R .11. SHAUKI ORD
UP Staff Correspondent
Paris, Aug. 23, (UP)—Peace con-
ference delegates were relievd to-
day by tire relaxation of tire Am-
crican-Yugoslav crisis and hoped
to get some work done on the
Italian treaty. __
A virtual breakdown in the me-
chanical operations of the secre-
tariat, coupled with the uncer-
tainty stirred^ by the American ul-
timatum, made substational pro-
gress this week possible.
The secretariat summoned a
meeting of the Italian political
commission at ” 4 p.m., although
delegates still had not received
copies of the more than 250 “fun-
damental” treaty amendments to
be considered. The secretariat
v/as swamped with the copying
task.
It was believed highly probable
that Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes will return to the United
States if Yugoslavia fails to give j
o satisfactory reply to the Ameri- I
can 48-lrour ultimatum which ex- j
pires tonight.
Eyrnes was expected to present \
the American case to the United
Nations Security Council, if the
United States should decide to
press its charges against Yugoslav-
ia in the UN.
Strong support was gathering a-
mong the delegations to give the
Italian people greater credit lor
knocking fascism and fighting the
late part of the war on the Allied
side . Italy has urged a revision of
the treaty preamble ’ composed by
tire big" four to stress this point.
Tito Releases
US Airmen as
Pressure Used
By MIL1VOJE NAJJMOVIC
UP Staff Correspondent
Belgrade, Aug. 23, (UP)—-Amer-
ican officials, bearing Marshal Ti-
to’s pledge to atone for shooting
down two American planes and
halt further attacks, directed a
search today for five airmen miss-
ing since their U. S. Army trans-
port crashed Aug. 19.
Tito was understood to have
promised Ambassador Richard C.
Patterson, Jr,, yesterday that no
further incidents will occur bc-
I tween Yugoslav fighters and A-
merican planes entering Yugoslav-
ia.
The U. S. Army Graves Regis-
tration Commission inspected the
wreckage of the plane downed
near the Austrian frontier Aug.
19. They were expected back in
Belgrade tomorrow.
Fulfillment of Tito’s promise to
give tlie United. States full satis-
faction for the two frontier at-
tacks on American planes hinged
on the fate of five crew members
involved in the second crash.
Patterson received from Tito as-
surance of facilities for American
officials to inspect the site -of the
Aug. 19 crash. Nine men, includ-
ing seven Americans, who crash-
ed Aug. 9’ in the first Incident
were released by the Yugoslavs
yesterday and reached American
.headquarters at Gorizia. .
Yugoslav Army sources said they
could find no trace of the five
men aboard the plane shot down
Aug. 19. They indicated an earli-
er official Yugoslav report that
two men parachuted may have
been wrong.
It was believed possible that all
live Americans were dead.
U. S. Ambassador Richard C.
Patterson, Jr., reported last night
that Tito had promised him full
satisfaction during their two-
hour conference at Bled, the Yu-
goslav . premier’s summer residence.
He promised Patterson facilities to
inspect the Aug. 19 crash site.
Idlett Drive-In
Grocery Opening
Set for Saturday
Bringing to Ennis the first in
open-air type food stores, Idlett’s
Drive-in Grocery, owned and oper-
ated by D. J. Idlett will hold a
formal opening Saturday, August
24.
This store at 207 North McKin-
ney, with its ample parking facil-
ities, will offer a new service to
the housewives here in Ennis—curb
service in grocery shopping. (See
opening ad elsewhere in this pa-
per.)
Ceilings Being
Upped to Beat
Deadline
Washington, Aug. 23, (UP)—The
OPA, racing against a Congress-
ional deadline for adjustment of
consumer goods prices, today up-
ped ceilings on trucks and pre-
pared other price boost orders
covering flour and building mater-
ials. . A
And early next week, the price
agency is expected to give house-
wives the sad news that the new
ceilings on lamb and beef will
bo several cents higher than the
OPA prices in. effect on June 30.
Although flour prices will go up
seven cents a hundred pounds to-
day, OPA does not anticipate the
rise will be passed on to consum-
ers in the form of higher bread
prices.
Boy Emperor Admits
False Statements
In War Trials
Ring Lost on
Guadalcanal Gets Hillsboro Extends
Home by Odd Route City Limits; Sets
City Tax At $1*65
Pittsburgh, (UP)—A lost class
ring came back to its owner from
Guadalcanal by an odd series of
coincidences.
The ring was finally returned
to George F. Bytsura, an ex-Ma-
rine, by authorities of Duquesnc
University, who got it this way:
Bytsura lost the ring on Guad-
alcanal in 1942. It was found by
another soldier who took it back
to Parris Island, South Carolina.
He, too, apparently lost it be-
cause htc ring was again found
by a female Marine. She sent it
to her mother in Newark, N. J.
who in turn sent it to Duqucsne
University.
Bytsura got it back when col-
lege authorities identified him by
the initials on the band,
Hillsboro, Tex., Aug. 23—The ’o-
cal city council this week annexed
125 acres of property adjoining
the city limits, extending 3,000
feet east and 200 feet north of
the present boundaries. This sec-
tion was in line with an amend-
ment to the city charter adopted
last April permitting the annexa-
tion of property adjoining the city
limits with or without the consent
of the property owners involved.
The council also fixed the city
tax rate at $1.65. The tax is di-
vided 80 cents for schools, 30 cents
for general fund, 15 cents for
streets and 40 cents for bonds.
This is a 30 cent increase for the
schools and five cent decrease in
the bond levy.
Tokyo, Aug. 23, (UP)—Henry
Pu-Yi, former puppet emperor of
Mancliukuo, admitted today he
had strayed from the truth dur-
ing his testimony for the prose-
cution in tire war crimes trial.
The “misstatement,” as Pu-Yi
preferred to) call it, was made in
regard to a copy of tire original
notes Pu-Yi made on the Japan-
ese conquest of Manchuria. Pu-Yi
testified yesterday that he had the
notes with him and the court ord-
cd him to produce them.
When the slender “boy emperor”
resumed the stand at today’s ses-
sion, court President Sir William
Webb asked if he had brought
the notes:
“No, I am sorry,” Pu-Yi said.
“I made a mistake yesterday.”
Those notes were left behind in
Khabrovsk', Soviet Union, where I
live now.”
JAMES H. MULKEY made a fine
record while serving his COUN-
TRY in the ARMED SERVICE; he
will make a fine record while sery-
j ing you as your COUNTY JUDGE.
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