The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 264, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 6, 1949 Page: 1 of 24
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VOL. 51.—NO. 264.
------------—THE EVENING NEWS AND THE MORNING TELEGRAM CONSOLIDATED IN 1915. ABSORBED THE DAILY GAZETtE IN 1924.
SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1949.
24 PAGES — 3 SECTIONS
Austrian Bight Wing
Leaders Retain Posts
"7F
Jjveral Cabinet
Offices Disputed
111* 4
"3si A
"■•ft*
illor I a
20 Lose Lives
In Flash Floods
In South America
- iJiy Pttnni
5 ie#*Rg Auatria, Nov. 5—Re-
liable *TRh». »airi today that
< hameflor leopold Figl and For-
eign Minister Karl Gruber will
retain their post* in the new Aus-
tnan coalition government.
Both are members of the'right
wing People's party, which emerg-
ed a* the country'* strongest irf
the national elections October 0.
In a conference tie tween lead-
ed^ of the People's party and the
tyj^jsiist* last night, it was also
agreed that Socialist leader I>r.
Adolf Schaeif will retain his post
as vice-chancellor
Bradford Again
Named President
Of Hopkins DHIA
Ail incumbent officers of the
Hopkins County D.H.I.A. were re-
elected at a meeting of that or-
ganisation at the Chamber of
Commerce Saturday afternoon.
Guy Bradford was named to
(Hy AuoeimUd Prr*»t
Caracas, Venezuela, Nov. 5 —
Search parties are combing the
ruins along the banks of a small
river In the suburb* of Caracas,
Venezuela — looking for more
victims of yesterday's flash flood
which took at least 20 lives.
The flood was caused by a six-
hour downpour after days of
heavy rains. It sent a torrent rush-
ing down the tiny Guaire River,
usually only a creek. Hundreds
of huts occupied by poor families
were ripped from the banks by
the rush of water and scores of
huts were seen struggling in the
■ continue as president, Brodie _
The two parties decided to abol Koon i* vice-president, and Byron ! roaring stream. Many families had
Uh the ministry of food, the post j WiHiams will continue to serve as refused to heed a warning by pol-
of minister without portfolio end j secretory. j ice radio cars, fearing it was a
the post of under-sec rotary in the j [> h I A members Saturday itrick l0 dislodK* them from their
mmbuy of economic planning. njimt,(1 , f0mm|U^ of lo I <-rudo homes.
Ne agreement has yet
i*een
a committee
on fie. rabinet appoint- j "J*"* * rovered •how
mentta or on the Socialist stand
that JA. ministry of economics
stiouftsw established to run Aus-
tria'sm.ationalized industry.
The disputed cabinet posts are
finance, power, traffic, jurtice ; construction,
and economic planning.
Ill- the old government, the So*
■' cialists held the ministries of
)M,»ei and traffic, the ' People's I beta that Joe Davidson, of
party heldMhe ministries ef fl-[White Oak Committee, la
fair grounds in the
City Park. The committee was
instructed to enter into agree-
ments with other interested
bodies, or proceed alone in it*
Named to the com-
mittee were Ed Palmer, Sterling
Beckham and' Dan Harness,
Beckham informed th« mem-
the
Damage in the Caracas flood is
estimated unofficially at ten-mil-
lion dollars. Five bridges wa;-:
washed out as the flood spread in-
to more fashionable suburbs, and
business houses pn the riverhank
were flooded.
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nance and economic planning and j first Hopkins youth to return a
a non-party civil servant held the (heifer to the D.H.I.A. as payment
ministry of justice. (for e heifer awarded him earlier
j under the organization's heifer
procram The program consists
awarding heifers to outstand
Two Persons Hurl,'!
In Aulo Accident
Near'Here Friday
Mayflower Sails
Across Atlantic
In Record Time
IB* A—tl»l>4 Prmui
London, Nov. 5, — The
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Two Peace Meetings
In Steel Strike Slated
Navy to Send
More Officers
To Air Force
IB* AtmciahU
Washington, Nov. 5—The Navy
has agreed to let the Air Force
have 25 per cent of the Anna-
polis graduates as they finish
their schooling. The increase goes
intoeffect next year.
Braviously only seven per cent
of fthe Naval Academy graduates
allowed to volunteer for the
eerVice.
Half of those .shifting to the
Air Forre will go to flying as-
signments and the others to
g^gRad posts.
, That arrangement was made to
avei4 any chance of atripping the
Navpi of Academy graduates phy-
sically qualified for its own air
work.
The Army allots 40 per cent of
it’s West Point graduates to the
Air Force. There - may be some
rearrangement of that schedule
soon.
The Air Force wants to set -Up
its
liCa
PAYS TO HAVE HUSBAND
MURDERED — Mrs. Margaret
Susan Piatt, of Bremerton, Wash-
ington, is being held in the Bre-
merton jail on suspicion of hav-
ing attempted to murder her
husband, Wilfred. Mrs. Piatt
stated she paid Hellis D. .Scott
and Wallace Mettern $324 down
payment on a $1,000 fee for the iU own ,jr .cc,dfmy eventually
two men to kill her husband. bnt it ha8 none now Gener>1 H#J»
we|e
eiree
They disappeared with her money
and she told her husband, who
called the police. (NEA Tele-
photo ).
lag Hopkins youth* with the *tip- American dipper Mayflower flew j
1 illation that the first heifer calf fr<’m N*w York 10 London in J
| of the animal be rotorned to the "ln* hour* and 21 minute* today. I
D.H.I.A. A committee, coiwirt- The f,>rn^°y *»*d »*» •
ing of Brook* Emmons. Sterling ord 1or commercial airlines. The
Beckham and Leeman Teates. •v‘>ra<f* tpeeil was 381 miles an
Red Defense
Move Runs
Into Delay
IH* :\*MK -Mint Prtul
landenherg. Air Force Chief of
Ktaff. has, said the service needs
more acadcmytrained officers.
This y-ear's Annapolis class,
graduating next spring and the
first in which onefourth of the
members ean transfer to the Air
Foree, numbers 690.
CANCER VICTIM ARRIVES IN NEW YORK FOR TREATMENT—
Mrs. John Rippetoe and daughter, Belva, 7-years-old cancer victim
from Bronte, Texas, arrive in New York City. Belva is suffering
from a cancer known as neui ofilastomi and doctors say she has only
one chance in a million to. survive more thap a year. (NEA Tele-
photo).
HDC Women Take
Fancy to Fancy
Tray Making
CIO Takes Steps
To Expel Reds
Two persons were injured, nei-
tner seriously, Friday afternoon
when a trailer loaded with cotton
broke i<**>*» from a eat and plowed
into an oncoming automobile east
u! liulphuf Springs.
The occupants of the ear, Mr
rad Mrs I„ A, Williams, ami their
six } eai old d*jghter were taken
to the ^lopkm. •'.runty Memorial
'for treatment. Mr, Wil-
ra>ved a deep lateration in
trend but * as released by
ai.endanU Saturday
Hi* wife had bruise* and
w»s instructed by the members to
hour.
New York,
j judge has
. -■ ,, Hopkins County Home Demon -
Nov. 5 A Federal ,trntk»n Club members have gone
place the heifer calf returned by The previous record, 20 min- j ,‘J**™’* f" r
Ihi\ idson in the hands of another ule* slower, was set by Pan Amer- j* be p*Jjtted u.° leTve
outstanding farm youth. .can last month. , ! the court’s jurisdiction ponding
appeal of their conviction.
The case was adjourned by Fed-
eral Judge William Bondy. At
the same time Bondy urged coun-
sel for the defendants and the
government to seek to get to
FOREIGN MINISTERS
TO MEET WEDNESDAY
a big way.
During the past several weeks,
86 members have made a total of
AtOrtMf Pr**»i
Washington, Nov. ft—The Stale
laceration, about her head and IMpartmenl says the firat session
knee*, and she wa* still in the S'} the conference of British,
hospital Saturday. The young F‘«nth •nd American foreign, min-
daughter wa* not injured, an : Ire held in Paris on
examination showed. Wednesday. Previously, it had
The accident happened about 4 lw*" •m°unc«d «•>>>' that the for-
p.m. Friday afternoon in the «".m*t*rs would meet next
White Oak community about *ev.
en mite* east of Sulphur Springs. ‘
According to the sheriffs force,
IWn Burkett, s fainter of the
While Oak community, »*• com-
ing west toward Sulphur Spring*
with a bale of cotton, and the
hitch broke, allowing the trailer
W cross over into the path of the
car driven by William*. Williams'
car. which was pulling a trailer
house, struck the trailer headon.
Several hundred dollars worth of
damage wa* reportedly done to
-tha-nulmiiobile:
P. 0. Building
Fire Blamed
On Wire Defect
IB* Amorimini (affiliation today to the Puerto
,..vr emir Cleveland. Nov. 5—The CIO Rican Oonfevedation of General
djourned until Mon- in {or a|Uminuin tray making in ■ Executive Board ha* taken another j Workora.
.... ............1 ' 'step in its drive to oust union* j The Confederation represents
and union leader's who are found about 450,000 workers in various
guilty of following the Comniu- industries on the island.
400 trays, according to Marv El-IF**, P*!?4 lln‘‘' len unlons an> i CIO President Philip Murray
len Clumpier, Hopkins County l ,*'I*1'?, tod*V the executive . sald the charter probably will be
Home Demonstration Agent i hoard set up committees to in- | issued next week. Murray said
The trays are of various shapes ■ vf8t,K*te eh“r*e* ‘’f Pio-<_ommu- , some member of the CIO staff will
and sizes and have inlaid flnucr ,mm *K*,nri the 10 left-wing |,e stationed in Puerto Rico to
designs alone with other inrri un‘°"s and n‘ne t*16’1 leaders, work with the Confederation.
^ aeslgru, along with other mtri- In 8nother development in Clevc- |__
gether and compose their differ- <lltC works . a, t t0 make the ; ialld, CIO President Philip Mur-
; trays attractive in appearance. ,ay saUi that all no „fficers w,n
con- ^IVC t,a'n,nK meetings were now sjgn ^e non-Commumst affi-
victed last month of conspiring to ■thr,;uKhout th*1! davits required by the Taft-Hai t-
advocatc the Violent overthrow of j.4' 1fm nStra''0'^ ,n Jray lc>' “‘4, to gain access to the ma-
1 making were given by Mrs. W. 8. j chinery of the National Labor
IH* SaMS-t.ua Prmm)
Two peace meetings in the steel
strike have been scheduled for
next week.
Jones & l.aughlin Steal Cor-
portion announced In Pittsburgh
that it will confer writh the C-1-0
8teelworkers on Monday. And
Youngstown, Ohio, Sheet and
Tube Company will meet with the
union on Tuesday.
But negotiations have broken
off between the Inland Steel Com-
pany and the C-I-0 union in Gary,
Indiana. They were halted just
two hours after they had resumed.
A union spokesman said company
officials had refused to indicate
whether they would accept the
terms which brought * settlement
with Bethlehem Steel.
Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching
will meet with Southern soft coal
operators in Washington on Mon-
day. Ching already has conferred
with John L. Lewis in efforts to
end the soft coal strike.
The mine workers chief has re-
fused to allow emergency coal re-
lief in Pittsburgh. Retail coat
merchants say the city coal sup-
ply is almost exhausted.
The New York State Supreme
Court stepped into the United Ele-
ctricsl Workers union controver-
sy Saturday. A U. E. local had
scheduled a meeting in Syracuse
Saturday to decide whether to
withdraw from the |>arent union.
The U-E has been expelled from
Die C-I-O as a leftwing group.
The court issued a temporary in-
junction restraining the officer*
from holding the meeting. U. E.
President Albert FitzgeralJ
sought the order. Fitzgerald has
ordered right wing leaders ont of
his union -— and local union offic-
ers in this case considered right-
winger*.
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cnees.
The
11 defendants were
the United States .government..
They were released in a total of
1260,009 bail this week,
j Five live outside the district.
(Continued on page eight)
Burns and Mrs. H. J, Avaritt, Relations Board.
both of Saltillo; Mrs. G. R. Han- _
kins and Mrs. Ear! Coke, both of
Mahoney; and Mrs. H. C. Moore,
of Nelta.
17 Steer Calves
Purchased by
Local FFA Lads
u .\**Ot Hitid Vrcto)
Cleveland, Nov. 5—-The CIO Ex- j
ecutive Board voted a charter of
Business Firms
To Close Here
For Armistice
Most Sulphur Springs bu»i-
I H* •-«.) ‘At ft p,ytl
Washington, Nov. 6- - A short
circuit ha* been blamed for the
fire an explosion* that caused
about 1200,000 damage in the
Postoffice Department building
last Tuesday.
ln a preliminary report, a com-
mittee of investigating officials
said the short circuit occurred in
the electri-lil distribution system
on the top Door. Electrical con- ,
500,000 Lose Homes
In Philippine Islands
nrrr-r.-., “i1'"""11?1'™ ' ' - • ----------y----.
San Diego Quake
new establishment* will close next (luctor* between transformer |
Friday to observe Armistice Day. vaultjl tha„ .....uwbwit4,.
aeeardiny to -tfcr Chamber of the i cm.rt'decI.reT andThTc^ !
Th<* V\ liham* family mte rt#i- * mul Retail Merchants insulation was vaporized!
dents of Odessa, Auaocintion. |nto api>arently inflammable ■
ihe banka, poet office, and of- j ^
(ices in the court house will def- j Fourteen person* were injured,
(imtely be closed. Several cafes none seriously, and 3,000 cm-
_ »»d Y»»'n«r cUtions indicated they ploy*** «*re forced to leave the
Mf/|Mary Dennis - —.....s_________________
Set ror Sun
E. 0. Chapman
Dies Here After
Heart Attack
iHy .\Mountnt frew'
The typhoon that battered the i
Philippine Islands early this week
provides a continuing story of dis- ex Cl* 1 i
[aater. The distructinn and -tos- U^RldOB OllQlll
Seventeen Sulphur Springs
High School KAA youths have
j purchased high grade steers from
: various Hopkins County breeders
as projects for this school year.
The chapter also was donated an-
other steer by a llopkihs County
man.
Each year the future farmers
feed out a number of steers which
they auction off to the highest
bidders. The current crop will be
Junior Red Cross
Enrollment Drive
To Begin Monday
The annual drive for Junior
Red Cross members will begin in
all Hopkins County schools Mon-
day, Miss Laura Camming* of the
local Red Cross chapter has an-
nounced. The campaign continues
through Nov. 30.
F,very school in the county is
being asked to take part in the
drive, and a fee of 50 cents will
he assessed each room in an elem-
entary school which is enrolled,
with each room receiving the Jun-
ior Red Cross Magazine.
One dollar will he the enroll-
ment fee for every 100 students
the high school* of
'of life are now disclosed to
have ;
Final Rites for
Set lor Sunday
U. S. War Planes
Flown to China
Hr*. Maty. Francis Dennis, 78,1
succumbed pf her home here late t
Friday uftffirtioon.
Born Nov, 20, 1875, in Missi*- (
uppi. she came to Texas with her]
parent*, the late Mr. and Mrs. E. j
L. Baxley, at the age of four. She'id * ht nyi„K United State. |
had lived in , ulphur Springs for 1 medium bomber* to Formosa
| for the Chinese Nationalists.
Information about the flight* j
was disclosed by pilots in the j
IB* .law»l«*
Manila, Nov. ft—Americans are ]
the past 14 months.
ln 1892, site was married to the
late W. J. Dennis. Mrs. Dennis
was a member of the Baptist
Church and leaves a host of ac-
quaintance*.
Surviving are five sons, Jessie
l>enni». Sulphur. Springs, Tom
Dennis. Jeff Dennis, Gary Den-
nis, nil of California, and Loyd
Dennis. Odessa; four daughter*.
Philippines.
They say that Americans are
making the trip to Formosa by
way of Honolulu, Guam, and Oki-
nawa. And the informations in
Manila is that the Nationalists
equip the planes with guns as
soon as they arrive. The bomber*
Mm. Leona Nance, Mrs. Eunice j than are sent into action in block-
t'aaaon*. Mr*. Willie Allen, and;ading Communist-held ports and
Mr*. Lemmie Walling, all of Sul-(bombing mainland cities,
phur Springs; 18 grandchildren, j The plane* are said to be pur-
and fiv# great-grandchildren. Ajch«*d for «„h in the United
son, Woodrow, was lost in a U. S. 1 flom
(Continued an page
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private companies
eight) that bought them as war surplus.
4 Booked by ^
City Police
Friday Night
Four persons were booked by
city policemen in actions Friday
night. Two motorist* were charg-
ed will} speeding, and two oth-
er. were booked on charges of
intoxication and disturbance of
the peace.
State highway patrolmen sta
Honed here issued two
Friday night. One was charged
with reckless driving, and the sec-
ond wa* guilty ot driving with-
out operator’s license.
K. O. Chapman, 45, assistant
superintendent of the Sulphur
Springs schools, succumbed Fri-
day afternoon at his home here
following a heart attack.
Mr. Chapman had been asso-
ciated with Hopkins County
school* for over 20 years, and
except for a four-year period iii
politics, he was an active school
teacher.
A native of Hopkins County,
he was born at Tire Sept. 27,
1904, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bl
F. Chapman. The deceased was
j superintendent of the Birthright
schools for eight years, and after
it* consolidated with North Hop-
kins, he served two years as su-
perintendent there. He later ran
for the Legislature, and served
two terms, 1944-48, as a State
Representative. After his four-
year tenure at Austin, he return-
ed here a* uasi»tant superintend-
ent of the Sulphur Springs school
system.
Mr. Chapman was active in re-
ligious and civic circles. He was
been so great that the Philippine
Red Cross has had to call for help
from Red Cross agencies in oth-
er countries.
! t Hy A HtoM ittl prl Pre
San Diego, Calif,, Nov. 5. -—
| Yesterday's earthquake, in the San
| Diego area frightened a lot 'of
According to the latest official j people. But about ail the quake
Red Cross reports, more than 100 ] ,uj was crack S0I1U, piaster,
cities and villages were hit by the
typhoon on Hght differentis- W ^ to bc g
lands and nearly half a n»ll,on h(,r of buildin|rR „ including Beckham and Rill F.LaRue. voca-
people have lost their homes. Six Cjtv Harbor .Department's ■ ^culture teachers at the
hundred 64 have been reported I / . Sulphur Sprihar* Hiarh School,
missing or killed in the cenUal j water-front structure and Core*
islands. nado High School.
A survey shovxe the most seri- , ’k<f ca*yea w ill be fed out an-j
different is- .. k» crack* in a 'J<'r *MPervi*ion of Sterling
auctioned off March 16, 1950.
The following youths will feed j Joioing from
out steers: William Midgett, Rnh- i the county, with each achooi re-
ger, Kenneth Asbill, Paul Ray1 ’
\ ititow*. Kenneth Douglas, James
Dan Orr, Ralph Jenjtins, Weldon
Payne, Duh Fielding, Francis,
I'r'at^CS t Drive Fund Now
r,, m„w„ - Tolals 54 523 77
Community Chest
;—* Amarillo Lawyer
Czechs Purge Six Discovered Shot
On Plot AttemptIn CaMn
fHy Annormied Prt-ml
Amarillo. Nov. 6—A 40-year-
old attorney was found shot to
death in a tourist court on the
iH* Aituritttrd Pre**l ; leged plot to overthrow the Oom-
Prague, Nov. 5—Six anti-Com- j munist-led regime by force. They
munists were hanged in C'zecho-1 ,_an,| several dozen others—were
Slovakia today. All had been con-1 convicted after a secret trial. The
victed of conspiracy to overthrow government charged that the plot-
the government of that Comma- Wrs werc j„ league with a .*'We*(-
nisl-dominated country. cn, imperialistic power." which j i ’oar^’’ 0n"Highway 66
Among those executed were could mean Britain or the United mnt.R' easl 0f
men who had held prominent po-1 States. The government did not j
j Contributions to the Community
i Chest Drive arc continuing to
(come in, but the goal of 96.100 D
; still far away.
Through Saturday, *4,832.77
! had been taken in, according to
| figures released by Miss Laura
; Cummings, director of the local
American Red Cross Chapter.
Late contributions of 910 or
j over were received from Klough
Williams, who gave $10, and
Bridges Cash Store, which gave
Funds contributed by
schools follow*: Senior
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f
local
High
sitions in the old Czech republic say which foreign power.
outskirts of
ing.
L>ead was Floyd Elmer Ryan.
His body wa* found lying on a
lied in the Blue Light Tourist
afmut four
Amarillo. He and
his wife formerly operated the
■- (a member of the Sulphur Springs i before the Communist* came to
i tourist court.
tickets I Methodist Church. He was also
a member of the local Masonic
Lodge, and was a Noble Grand in
(ContintMd on page eight)
j In addition to the six who were Ryan waR *hot th h the
attor- hanged today, ten — including . hwL A ,38 calibre f0I.«.,Kn.m.ke
neys, political figilre* and profes- j three women—were sentenced to
power in February, 1948-
sional men. j prison for life. An unspecified
The Caech government describ- j number were sentenced to one to
ed them as ringleaders of an al- • 25 years in prison.
Amarillo this morn-1 !^1' *f.4: d“nior H'«»>
Travi* Ward, f5; Houston
Ward, $6; Lamar Ward, $12} and
Austin Ward, $32.50.
The following women's teams
also reported the following col-
lection* through Saturday: Mr*.
Billy Murray and Mrs, Burton
MrCorkle. $18; Mrs,
Bird and Mrs. Brae
*23.20; Mrs. Carrol! B
Mrs. T. A. Johnson, $$l l
Jack Kennemur
Jonea, $14.05; L ,
Dildy and Mrs. Joe
pistol lay at his side.
Assistant District Attorney
(Continued on page eight)
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