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VOL 57.—NO. 69.
SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1935
6 PAGES — 6 CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Phillips Unleashes
Bitter Assault
On Spending Bill
Austin. Mar. 23 (AP)—A
filibuster against the Texas
Senate’s 1 1-2 billion dollar
spending bill apparently is
underway. Senator Jimmy
Phillips of Angleton shouted
and pounded his desk in a bit-
ter assault on the legislation.
When the Senate quit at noon
until 2 this afternoon, he showed
no signs of quitting his attack.
The South Texas Senator' has
promised a last-ditch battle
against the bill, and is an old hand
at filibustering. In fact, he holds
the record for the Texas Legisla-
ture, Back in 1951 he argued for
17 hours and 55 minutes without
letup against a bill.
Phillips wants the Senate to ac-
cept his amendment to add one
million dollars a year for the Gal-
veston Medical School. The pro-
posal already has been turned
down by the Senate’s finance
committee.
The Texas House spent an hour
this morning arguing over a pro-
posal to tighten regulations of
Texas securities sales. But it re-
cessed until 10 o’clock tomorrow
morning without reaching a dec!-
Six Texans Die
In Plane Crash
On Mountainside
sion.
Pilot Killed
In Plane Crash
Near Coleman
Coleman, Mar. 23 9PI—The pilot
was killed and a passenger only
slightly injured today in the 2
a. m. crash of an Army airplane
about one-third mile east of the
Coleman airport.
The pilot killed was identified
as 1st Lt. James W. Walker, 27,
of Walnut Grove, Mo. His pas-
senger was Warrant Officer Wti
liam Noviek, 27, of Cincinnati,
Ohio. Both were stationed at Fort
Hood, Tex.
Noviek told Coleman firemen
that he had been asleep on a flight
from Ft. Sill, Okla., and that
Walker awakened him to say that
they were almost out of gasoline.
They circled the Coleman munici-
pal airport, he said, four times
trying to find the unlighted run-
way.
Finally, he said, Walker crash-
landed the plpne in a nearby oats
field.
Noviek said it took him about
15 minutes to get out of the
wreckage and that he believed
Walker was dead by the time he
freed himself.
After getting out of the plane,
Noviek walked to the airport,
broke into an office there, and
telephoned the Coleman fire de-
partment.
Washington, Mar. 23 (if)—The
Defense Department announces
six servicemen from Texas are
among 66 persons who died when
a Navy transport plane crashed
into a Hawaii mountain top. The
Texas victims are identified as:
Air .Force Staff Sergeant Sam-
uel J. Alvarado, whose permanent
address is Chihuahua, Mexico, but
whose temporary address is El
Paso.
Air Force Staff Sergeant Wil-
liam E, Britt of Amarillo.
Air Force Airman First Class
Willie G. Harrell of Austin.
Army Sergeant Rexie L. De-
weese of Lake Creek.
Army Corporal William B.
Hendon of Brownwood.
Marine Corporal Cecil A. Brit-
tain, Whose next of kin are Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey B. Brittain of
Route 3, Timpson.
Two other Southwcsterners arc
on the list of dead in the Ha-
waii crash, Navy men Gerald Jos-
eph Ribiehaux of Hontagut, La.,
and Aubrey White, Lawton, Okla.
OPERATIONS SURFBOARD — Two unidentified Navy Frogmen
wqde ashore at San Simeon, Calif., after clearing beach for inva-
sion by “friendly” forces. Frogmen are part of 20.Q00 troops
taking part in “Operation Surfboard,” largest joint Army-Navy
amphibious maneuvers held on the Pacific coast since World War
II. (NEA Telephoto).
Accused Burglars
Sign Statements
Airliner Lands
Safely Despite
False Alarm
Bevan Offered
Chance to Mend
Laborite Ways
Warm Sunshine
Takes Chill Off
Late Cold Snap
London, March 23 (ft—The
British Labor Party is offering
its leftwing rebsl leader, Aneur-
in Sevan, a chance to compromise
and thus avoid possible expulsion
from the party. He already has
been isolated from party affairs
in parliament.
The Labor Party's national
executive committee met today
in London to consider expelling
him entirely. Instead, The com-
mittee voted 14 to 13 to sound
Bevan out on what his course
will be in' the future.
It is no secret that the party
leaders want to avoid an irre-
concilable split with Bevan which
would hurt Labor's chances in
general elections which may be
coming up soon1.
A bright sun warmed Texas
Wednesday, following one of the
severest March northers in the
history of the weather bureau,
as the mercury climbed into the
60’s here. But weather observers
say another norther is on the
way and should arrive in this
area late Thursday.
The mercury dropped to a low
of 40 here early Wednesday, fol-
lowing a high Tuesday of 51,
but it was back up to 62 before
noon.
The barometer was slightly
falling at 29.94, Ralph Hill re-
ported.
Railroad Drops
Threat to Fire
Idle Employes
-The
Father of Three
Freed on Bond
After Slaying
Lubbock, Mar. 23 (ft—An air-
liner with 13 persons .aboard, in-
cluding the band leader, Russ
Morgan, circled the municipal air-
port at Lubbock for 30 minutes
today after a warning signal ap-
parently failed.
The plane landed safely.
Morgan was on his- way to play
a dance engagement at Midlaud.
Also on the plane was the well-
known trombonist a.nd vocalist, Al
Jennings. The remainder of the
band was headed for Midland by
bus.
The first officer of the plane,
H. G. Buckler, says that as the
plane prepared to land, signals in
dicated the landing wheels might
not be locked in position. How-
ever, the control tower at the
Lubbock airport reported the
wheels down and a decision was
made to land.
Lufkin, March 23 Wl-An em-
ployee of the Lufkin foundry who
is the father of three children
was freed on $2,000 bond today
following the fatal shooting of a
young foundry worker.
The accused man is a 35-year-
old resident of Diboll, Louis Ar-
rington. Diboll is located about
nine miles south of Lufkin.
The young foundry worker, 21-
year-old Talbert Beasley, was
shot at Arrington’s home in Di-
boll last night. He died of the
wound in a Lufkin hospital early
today.
Washington, Mar. 23 Oft
Louisville & Nashville Railroad is
reported to have agreed to with-
draw a threat to fire its non-strik-
ing but idle operating employes.
The request to cancel the job
termination notice was made by
the National Mediation Board and
by Governor Frank Clement of
Tennessee. Clement was attend-
ing a meeting of representatives
of the railroad and striking non-
operating union employes at the
board’s offices.
The operating employes who
run the trains, have been honor-'
ing picket tines thrown up by the
striking non-operating employes
such as clerks. The result is that
all passenger trains oh the Louis-
ville & Nashville and three sub-
sidiary railroads have been can-
celled and freight service held to
a trickle. The strike is in its 10th
day. *
The dispute centers around the
railroad’s refusal to grant the
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All three men charged with the
recent burglary of a Brashear
store have signed written state-
ments admitting their guilt.
Leader of the trio, Erbon Lee
Partin, 48, made a confession last
Friday. Tuesday afternoon his two
companions—Joseph Milton Mar-
chetti, 21, and Howard Douglas
Bowman, 37, admitted their com-
plicity in the crime.
The three men are charged here
with burglarising the Gore and
Roberson store in Brashear in the
early morning hours of March 16.
Their attempt to rifle the firm’s
safe resulted in failure when a
charge of nitroglycerin exploded
a gas bomb and drove them out
of the store.
According to their statemerits,
the men had met in a Dallas bar
on the night of the burglary and
agreed to do the job.
Partin made his statement last
week to County Attorney Neil
McKay mid - Sheriff Jim Bryce.
Marchetti and Bowman confessed ington.
Tuesday to District Attorney Sam
Moore, Jr., and Texas Ranger S.
H; Denson, and signed written
statements.
It was said that Partin had
previously “cased” the Brashear
store before the trio’s chance
meeting in the Dallas bar. Bow-
man’s car was used for transpor-
tation from Dallas to Brashear.
The accused men were arrested
in .Commerce about an hour after
the burglary.
Ike Hits Using Documents
To Damage Any Reputations
Washington, Mar. 23 (AP)
— President E i s e n hower
commented at his news con-
ference in Washington to-
day on the controversial re-
lease by the State Depart-
ment of the Yalta conference
papers.
He said he believes all dpqi-
ments of such conferences should
be released—but that “the U. S.
must he very careful whenever
the good faith of any allies is in-
volved.
And the President said there is
nothing to he gained by going
hack 10 years to try to show
whether someone may have been
wrong.
An old quarrel between Repub-
licans and Democrats flared up
again over President Roosevelt's
part of Yalta following the issu-
ance of the papers last week.
Some Republicans claim Roosevelt
rave away too much to the late
Josef Stalin to get the Russians
into the war against Japan.
President Eisenhower said to-
day the Yalta papers and similar
documents should not lie used to
damage reputations. They should,
he said, he studied to profit by
any mistakes made in the past.
President Eisenhower made a
comment without elaboration in
his news conference discussion
on the Yalta meeting between
Roosevelt, Stalin and British
Prime Minister Churchill. Eisen-
hower said treaties have always
fallen down in war if the inter-
ests of one country were going to
be damaged by the action of its
allies.
He did not go into details on
this.
As expected, tne white House
newsmen questioned President
Eisenhower in an effort to get
a clear line on the administra-
tion’s views regarding a proposal
by Senator Walter George. The
call of the influential Georgia
Democrat for top level talks be-
tween the West and Russia at
an early date has been the sub-
ject of much debate in Wash
President Eisenhower said he
would need assurance that the
Russians meant to go into such
ADMI1S KILLINGS—Dr. lien T. Galbraith, Me Alcster, Okla., physician, admitted Tuesday he kill-
ed his wife with a wine bottle, poisoned their three children then attempted to hide his crime by
setting his home afire last Thursday. Galbraith told officers “I just woke up at 1:30 a, m. in a
motel in Norman uiul felt I had to go home and kill my wife,” The doctor is shown here with his
three children, Jere, Frank, and Sarah Ann, left to right. (NEA Telephoto),
BUDGET APPROVED
Franchise Granted
To Phone Company
Phone Official
Gives Progress
Report to Mayor
Cltv Commissioners, m e • ting erground conduit work has been
Tuesday night in special session, | let, arid it is expected that this
approved the new budget and also
General Telephone Company
of the Southwest anticipates no
talks in an honest way, He said difficulty in meeting its estim-
Marines Claim
New Missile
Proves Success
-The
El Toro, Cal., Mar. 23 Ift-
Marine Corps announces success-
ful testing of an air-to-airftnissile
it says can destroy all types of air-
craft in any type of weather.
A Marine Corps Air Station
spokesman at El Toro says the
missile \yas fired from a Douglas
Sky night all-weather jet fighter
attached to an all-weather fighter
squadron.
The announcement says the
missile is being called “The Spar-
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Hagler Lawyers
Fight Extradition
Austin, Mar. 23 (ft—Attorneys
for a Fort Worth businessman ac:
cused of an Oklahoma torch slay-
ing went to Austin today to fight
an extradition order.
Governor Shivers granted the
order last October 20. But the at-
torneys for the accused man, Dav-
id Hagler, Jr., will attack it as in-
valid in oral arguments before the
state Court of Criminal Appeals.
Hagler Is charged with the slay-
ing of a man, still unidentified,
near Davis, Okla., last October
l()th. •
Baruch Says Stock Market
Will Take Care of Itself
Washington, Mar. 23 Ift
man who made millions in his day
as a Wall Street trader, Bernard
Baruch, has testified as the last
scheduled witness in the Senate
Banking Committee's hearings on
the stock market.
" B4ruch said the market will
take care of it&elf if the govern-
ment’s defense and economic pol-
icies are sound.
Baruch said the stock market is
largely a mirror of the economy,
and that the economy is dominat-
ed by the cold war. He said the
bull market which began in 1953
is based on industrial expansion.
And it is, he said, a result of
what he called inflationary poli-
cies which have been followed
over the past 15 years. He added
that if there is danger to the
economy today, it- does not come
from the st.ock market but from
this inflationary heritage.
The 84-year-old adviser to pres-
idents, gave the committee a 3-
point program for what he des-
cribed as sound government policy
in the cold war against commune
ism. First, he said, the U. S. must
determine what national security
requires, then do it. Two—forego
all tax cuts ufrtil defenses are se-
cure and the budget in balance.
And 3, Baruch said the U. S. must
discipline itself to whatever is re-
quired to win the cold war and
real peace.
Baruch had an appointment
with President Eisenhower follow-
ing his appearance before the Refl-
ate committee.
I Chairman William Fulbright rc-
ejessed the Wall Street hearings
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indefinitely after Bernard Baruch
testified. Fulbright said the hear-
ings did not disclose any major
abuses in stock market activity, so
far as he can se*. And the Demo-
cratic, Senator from Arkansas
added that he hadn’t expected,
w^en the parings started, that
thfy would.
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CAP Squadron
Plans Meeting
Here Tonight
Members of the. local Civil Air
Patrol squadron wili consider the
purchase of an Air Force supply
truck at their regular meeting
Thursday night at 7:30 in the.Na-
tional Guard armory.
The truck, if purchased, will be
converted into'a mobile radio Ra-
tion for work ift search and Res-
cue missions. Price of thfe truck is
$760, according to W. T. Waits,
Commander.
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Waits urged members of the
squadron to be present ip order
that they might express ■ their
opinions in the matter.
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he was wary because the Russians
have violated so many promises
and left the US hanging on a
limb. He said ratification of the?
Paris treaties by the Western
Nations must come before any-
thing else. Once the treaties for
West Germany's rearmament are
ratified, then he said might be
the time for holding exploratory
talks regarding a meeting of the
heads of state.
He said he and Secretary of
Slate Dulles talk over at least
twice a week the possibility of
diplomatic moves to ease world
tensions. He said they are being
very Careful to avoid conferences
that would give the Communists
an opportunity to spout propa-
ganda and end with nothing ac-
complished.
MacArthur Not Consulted
General Douglas MacArthur
said today he was not consulted
about the Yalta conference de-
cision — made fft February, 1945
—to have Russia join the war
against Japan 2 or 3 months aft-
er Germany was defeated. Mac-
Arthur said in New York that
had he been consulted, he would
have most emphatically recom-
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Cosi of Living ■
Index Remains
On Even Keel
Washington, Mar. 23
ated December conversion date of
the Sulphur .Springs telephone ex-
change dial 'operation.
This fact was reported to May-
or John R. Ramey in a letter re-
ceived today from General’s
president, W. G. Wright, who
outlined the progress of the dial
conversion program here.
The new building to house the
dial equipment is already com-
pleted pending only minor inside
finishing touches, Wright stated,
and two construction crews have
recently begun Work on the out-
side plant rehabilitation and ex-
tension. • A cable construction
crew will move to Sulphur
Springs by mid-July.
The contract for underground
conduit work has been let to E.
L. Dalton mid Co. Dallas. Work
is expected to begin April 25 by
that company placing under-
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signed n 20-year working agree-
ment with the General Telephone
Company of the Southwest.
The budget cajls for total ex-
penditures of $281,443, wheih
varies only slightly from the bud-
get for the previous year. It must
be finally approved by April 1.
By the terms of their new con-
tract with the City Council, the
General Telephone Company is
granted the right to operate for.
the next 20 years in Sulphur
Springs.
In h letter written to City Man-
ager Roy Haines, uml read before
the Council, W. G. Wright, presi-
dent of the company, said the
company expects to meet its con-
version date to the dial system in
December of this year.
The new exchange building for
housing dial equipment, located
on Oak avenue, is almost com-
pleted. It awaits only minor fin-
ishing touches inside.
Two construction' crews have
work will begin in April, with art
estimated completion date of June
Central office equipment wili
be installed right away, Wrtgfrt
asserted.
Defense Officials
Soiten Attitude
Toward Alaska
Washington, March 23 (ft —
The Defense Department hair sof-
tened its opposition to Alaskan
statehood. ---
This has been disclosed with
the release of a letter from the
Pentagon to the House Insular
Affairs Committee. The letter
says the Interior Department has
amended its proposals regarding
a military reservation area in
Alaska -—■ providing for a larger
, , , area. And the Pentagon says the
recently begun work on the out- proposal cornea'nearer than any
side plant rehabilitation and ex 0ther pending amendment tp
tension, and President Wrtght| mc,tih* defen*e needs.
said it is the company’s intention
to move in another crew not later
than mid-July.
He said a contract for the nnd-
FOUTS CALLS SESSION
United Fund Meeting
Scheduled Thursday
The proposed amendment to
the pending Alaska-ltawaii state-
hood bill would permit the Presi-
dent to set up defense areas in
! not more than 40 per cent of an
area taking in 148 million acres
in northern Alaska.
Plans to organize all local fund
drives under a single head will be
studied for adoption Thursday
afternoon by a Chamber of Com-
merce committee appointed for
that purpose.
m tl The proposal to organize a
., . . .ii:,' United Fund drive in Sulphur
governments coat of living index ; s j „opUing (;oun{y haH
.or February was the same as in; lie,n under ronHMeration for the
lanuaiy’ despite a fractional rise J t #n(, jt ig h d , The Red Cross, fund . raising
in food price* in some citle*. | tn of tlu! movPm,nl thal the [campaign continued with good
success Wednesday as seven more
contributions were received at
headquarters, one of therri from
Red Gross Drive
Makes Headway
With Collections
General Slowell
Plans Retirement
San Antonio, Mar. 23 (A>—-The
commander* of the Military Air
Ti ansport Service Continental di-
vision, Major General James
Stoweil, will retire in May. His
command at Kelly Air Force Base-
will be taken over by Brigadier
General Brooke Allen.
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tomorrow.
Committee members are to con-
also showed increases from the
prices in January when stores
hold sales in these items. However
declines in some other prices off - i ',or,e p. m. in the Cham-
sCt the increases. And the Bureau l>er °* f °mmerce office.
of Labor statistics says-the index
remained at 114V31 of the 1947-49
average. It now has stayed at that
level for three months.
The bureau also says the take-
home pay and buying power of
American factory workers reach-
ed an aii-time high in February.
Average take-home pay -was 76
cents a week higher than in Jan-
uary. In the case of a fac
worker with three dependents, the
bureau says average earnings af-
ter taxes were $69.17 a week. ........
Heretofore the practice of con-
ducting each drive |separately has
resulted in considerable inconven-
ience to donors and workers alike.
It is thought that unification of
all the dijikes would be much more
satisfactory all around.
Weber Fouts, committee chair-
n, has requested that ali agen-
desiring to Join the proposed
Fund Drive have represen-
tation at the meeting in order that
they may be included *» members
of the oiganissatioVi.
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a rural community.
trt St ClaIF“brought in $46.60
frofn the business drive, while
the Arbala community, with Har-
rison Stubbs as chairman, con-
tributed $23. The quota for Ag-
bgla had been set at $20.
The following teams In ,the spe-
cial gifts drive also reported
Wednesday:
Jack Hamilton and Burt Waits,
$177; Lester Murdock and Har-
vey Whatley, $30; Weber F’outs
and H. C. McGrede, $122.50;
and R. I.. Clapp, $20.
Paper Drive
Set Saturday
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A county-wide paper collection
/drive will be staged Saturday by
Hopkins County home demonstra-
tion women. Proceeds from sale of
the paper will be used to help de-
fray the operating expenses of the
County HD Council.
Club women are to
Sffi
are to convene
Saturday morning at 9 o’clock in
City Park and there arrange their
routes for working Sulphur
Spring-. On their way to tqwh,
club worhen wiil collect paper in
the rural areas.
Adell Hale, county HD agent)
ha* asked those desiring to con-
tribute. paper to tie it in bundles
suitable for handling by women,
and to place it near the curbs.
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 69, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 23, 1955, newspaper, March 23, 1955; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth829844/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.