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Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor Alex. H. Washburn We Get a Look at Red River Arsenal Taxes in Texas Your correspondent was the guest of the Texas Daily Nesw- paper Publishers association at its convention yesterday in Texarkana, which included the heads of papers in such cities as Dallas, Houston, Beaumont, Austin, and San Antonio. We spent the afternoon touring the vast Red River Arsenal which lies west of Texarkana. It was my first look at that great concentration of war vehicles and weapons.

I saw 26,000 tanks and trucks, many of them RFI (Ready for Issue), and the-rest of them being worked over in tho great machine shops of the depot. The arsenal has just terminated 1,200 employes, but there are still between 5,000 and 6,000 people working there and they have a job to do of staggering dimensions. I saw General Sherman tanks by the thousands but the gun on every one of them is being changed. The World War II Sherman tank carried a 75-mm. gun.

But it had an unhappy time with the Germans'. Mark VI tank because the latter carried an 88-mm. gun. So now our tanks are being equipped with a 00-mm. gun a long and slender rifle with fluted muzzle.

It packs winning wallop; but after 500 shots your tank commander cornes bark from the battle and gets a new 'cannon. And there was one brand new weapon, but since the officer forbid pictures of it (although allowing everything else to be photographed by the Texarkana cameramen) I presume I shouldn't say anything about it in type. Fascinating to all of us was the endless line of warehouses with their bins containing the inumer- C' able parts which are required when you fight a war with mechanized equipment. The civilian chief outlined to us the inventory control system by which the Army keeps track of millions of items how many of each, and just where they are. We were the guests of Gen.

Selby H. Frank, Commandant, who told us the arsenal is the largest in the United States jj, and probably in the world and I'll take his word for both" statements. You have to see it to understand the terrific impact on the visitor. And that we are keeping all that materiel and maintaining it in fighting condition tells exactly ow precarious our diplomats and civil and military leaders think the peace still is. It may be Big Texas to Texans, but they are bothered by the same little problems that plague Arkansas.

II note from yesterday's patchv that the Texas legislature is moving toward new or higher taxes on such things as cigarettes, playing cards, liquor, beer, cosmetics, automobiles, oil production, natural gas, and sulphur. Texas needs tax money for new and bigger mental hospitals and special schools and while there is opposition to special taxes the legislature, as of Thursday night at least, was beating off opponents and moving toward enactment. It's very sad about Utopia somehow, it never lasts. Texas got along for years almost without special taxes, because Texas produces half the rich oil traffic of America. But population is growing faster than taxation a situation which almost any legis- luturo can remedy instantly.

Star KM 3 ending t)6ff. Audited Quarterly by iii Certified Public Acab 51ST YEAR: VOL 51 NO. 106 Star of Hope 1899; Press 1927 JonsoliHjted January 18, 1929 HOPE, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1950 Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n. Associated Press "MERCY MURDER" TRIAL PRINCIPALS -At left, Judge Harold W. Westcott, who will preside at the trial of DP.

Herman N. Sander, right, when the physician appears for the "mercy killing" of one of his patients who was doomed by cancer. At center is Dr. Sanders's wife, who has stood loyally by his side. (NEA Telephoto) Surplus Food Available to Needy Arkansans Little Rock, Feb.

18 Surplus foodstuffs are available for needy Arkansas farm families but apparently a rent being distributed because of a government regulation, That regulation stipulates thalt dried milk, eggs and potatoes must be repackaged in individual allotments by county authorities handling the distribution. Singing Sunday at Garrcft Memorial Church A community singing will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Garrett Memorial Baptist church. Everyone is invited to come and bring their new books. Margaret's Birthday Coral Gables, Feb. 18 Truman paused long enough from her singing practice yesterday to observe her 26th birthday.

WEATHER FORECAST Arkansas: Partly cloudy this aft ernoon. Fair and colder tonight and Sunday. Lowest temperatures 24 to 32 in the northwest and extreme north portion. Committee Believes Sweet Potatoes Could Be Valuable Cash Crop for Hempstead A local committee returned yesterday from Opelousas, Louisiana yesterday with glowing reports on raising and marketing sweet potatoes as a possible cash crop for Hempstead Farmers. Making the trip yesterday were George Robison, Dorsey McRae Cecil Bittle and Judge H.

M. Stephens. Here's what they found out according to Judge Stephens and Mr. McRae; 1-That sweet potatoes is the No. 1 cash crop of that section.

2-They are easier to grow than cotton. 3-They can be used in three ways, to can, dehydrate for stock feed, sell, or feed raw. 4- That farmers can raise both potatoes and cotton without interference. Louisiana farmers get $1.75 per bushel for No. 1 potatoes and 40 bushel for No.

2. Asked why "seconds" weren't used for feed the local group was told there were plenty of lower grade potatoes to be used for that. Asked why they didn't plant all the land in, potatoes the Louisi- anians replied they couldn't hand all the potatoes they could produce and besides both potatoes and cotton crops can be raised, without interfering with each other. The secret is marketing and to be good sellers the potatoes are graded, washed, waxed and wrapped in paper lined boxes. It was the opinion of the commit- iee that land in Hempstead is more suitable to potato production due mainly to drainage.

It was also agreed that this "could be, if handle right, one of the most profitable money crops in Hempstead." The next step planned by tho committee is buying the right kind of slips and to 'contact other areas for more detailed information. Then the group will hold a series meetings throughout the county. Texarkana to cut down tion cost. Given assurance of full produc- local yes Trouble Washington. Feb.

18 if?) A battered co-pilot who told of making fervent love to quiet a hysterical blonde passenger in a wildly tossing airplane fretted today over how to explain to his wife, The samll plane, which had started on a routine chartered flight from New York to Florida, made a wobby emergency landing here yesterday after what co-pilot T. C.Sallee described as a hectic 15-minute struggle with the kicking, lunging woman. Sallee said he had to kiss the tall, powerfully built blonde to quiet her. Fingering the scratches on his face, he added: Not So Hot Critics Agree Hollywood, Feb.l 7 (UP) "Stromboli," starring Ingrid Bergman and a volcano, is about to go down in movie history as the most mis-publicied epic of all time. They're calling it a sexy checker.

It's not. "Stromboli 1 Can't Balance Budget Says Sen. George Washington, Feb. 18 Democrats disagreed today with President Truman's claim that it is impossible to cut federal spending enough to balance the budget. Chairman George (D-Ga) of the senate finance committee told a reporter he thinks that if congress wnated to balance income and outgo it could get the job done.

"The most distressing part ofj the present federal economic sh.ua- lion is the unwillingness to facts and bring about a reduction) blizzard whipped across some mid' in federal expenditures," George said. "I not only think we could 'These will have to be ex- she planied to my wife. I hope The as Miss Willie Jane Frost, 38. of Coral Gables, and Los Angeles was the only passenger aboard. Immediately after the landing she was hurried to a' hospital.

Attendants refused to discuss her condition. The 32-year-old Salle, who flew on a round-the-world trip with the late Bill Odom, described yesterday's flight as "the worst in my career." This 'is the story Sallee related to newsmen: The woman chartered the plane was piloted by K. H. a trip to Miami. Settled in the slat just behind the cockpit, she slept for most of tho time until the'-plane was just past Washington.

Then, said awoke and began kickin of his seat. Meyer's Bakery May Be Moved to A report that Meyer's Bakery is 'in process of moving its local plant to Texarkana was confirmed this morning following a telephone calf to Charles Meyer, owner of the establishments. Through of Frank McLarty, president of the Chamber of Commerce and C. A. Armitage, Secretary, Mr.

Meyer agreed today to delay any moving until after a meeting with local Chamber officials here Monday at 4 p.m. Mr. Meyer's told the local group that due to increased competition from Arkansas and out-of-state firms it is necessary to combine the Hope plant witH the one in 29 Persons Known to Dead in Headon Tr, Crash, IOO Are Injuti cooperation Mr. Meyer's agreed to meet with the' group to see if 'some plan couldn't be worked out to keep the bakery here. Flood Appears Worse in the South balance the budget but that we must balance it." Mr.

Truman stated in a Jefferson-Jackson speech Thursday night that it is "out of the question" to make es meet expenses merely by slicing the outlays the recommended for the year beginning July 1. President added that any talk about general tax cuts is iust "rank political hypocricy," George, whose committee handles tax bills, said so far as he knows nobody is advocating a general tax reduction. But he added: "We have some road blocks in our tax laws that ought to come out. If these can be removed we will strengthen the economy and the treasury should gain, rather than lose, revenue. west states today.

The rest of the country had fair weather, with many areas reporting mild temperatures. Rising floodwaters in three states threatened further evacuation of families to join the 35,000 persons already made homeless in the flood areas. East Central Louisiana, Southwestern Mississippi and Arkansas are the hardest hit by the floodwaters which have spilled out over millions of acres of land. An estimated 3,000 are homeless in Arkansas. Other hundreds along the lower St.

Francis river are in danger of the overflows. The backwaters of a half dozen streams, tributaries of the Mississippi, have forced some 8,000 to flee their homes in 12 parishes (counties) in Louisiana and five counties in Mississippi. The Red Senator Byrd (D-Va), a longtime Cr estimated that from 6,000 to economy advocate, sided, with 8 000 more may be driven from George in declaring that the budget could, be balanced if congress was willing to take off its coat and do the job. Every year a number of lawmakers make known their in- the lowlands by March 1. The 2,000 residents of Marksville, were warned that they may be isolated completely in a few days.

Floodwaters also crept lention of doing that, but this tc wa rd the outskirts of nearby Fer- promise bears fruit when which has a population of the voting starts on annual money bills. In a statement yesterday, Byrd fcn she suddenly attacked what he called the "She reached around my nock and pulled me back." he said. "Then she started kissing me. "Finally I managed to gel into the rear seat and hold her down, but she kept kicking and struggling. "'She asked me if I loved her.

Hoping to quiet her, I would say, 'madly. "That seemed to quiet her for a while, but then she would start again. She was throwing herself all over the plane, trying to open windows, trying to grab the 'wheel, trying to open the door," Dubanowich turned back toward Washington, sending ahead this tho back Cent's "embrace icit spending." is prim andjtower: to National airport proper enough to take your own grandmother to. The only "hot" thing in it is the volcano. The critics panned everything from the way the volcano erupted to "Rossellini's amateurish direction." Variety, a movie trade paper, Sgave it a rave review three weeks ago.

Teir critic called it "an artistic triumph." Two days ago they did a fast saying Miss Bergman's trouping is the only thing that holds the rambling story together. Rossellini's photo graphy WES okay, they said, but his picture "lucks a good story." On the other side of the fence, KKO studios is going right ahead, ballyhooing "Stromboli" in mile- high letters: "Raging pajSJOMd" filmed on a "raging island." "Have malfunctioning passenger aboard. Have police and ambulances standing by. Am going to land." "It was an anxious moment," said Sallee. He said he feared the struggly might throw the small Beechcratt plane out of control as it approached for a landing.

Nothing could be farther off base. Ingrid jmiy have been kissed on Strombili, all right, but it wasn't in front of a camera. Mario Vitale, her leading man, hardly ever holds her hand even. The closest Roberto lets Mis girl friend get to "raging passion" is when she lures a lighthouse keeper into a cave by the seashore. Things start to get interesting there for a minute when Ingrid slips cut of her shoes and plays "toesies" with the handsome muscle man.

But that's where Rossellini calls for a fade-out. Thr next thing you see is Ingi-H combing sand out of her haid. Ex-Senator From Nevada Succumbs San Francisco, Feb. IB iH i of chronic def- The Virginia senator went further to assert that what Mr. Truman has labeled his "fair deal" program threatens to put the country on "a nonstop, highspeed highway to socialism." 3,500.

Rising waters of streams in Missouri have made 3,000 homeless and about 80 have been evacuated in Kentucky. Flood conditions in these two states have eased. A blast of icy air from Canada was pusing southward into the north central part of tho country. It spread over Eastern Montana, the Dakotas and Montana last night and was moving into Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin today. Court Action Likely Course in Coal Strike By HAROLD WARD Washington, Feb.

18 A grim 'no progress" report from presidential observers at the soft coal negotiations heightened prospects today of White House court action to head off a fast-approaching national coal famine. Apparently fearing that such, action might include a request for a contempt citation against the United Mine Workers, Union Leader John Lewis issued an urgent new order to the miners late yesterday to get back to work "forthwith," as instructed by a federal court. Federal Conciliation i or Cyrus Ching commented: "I don't think that message could be misunderstood by anybody." But the miners' reaction was cold. Soft coal supplies were reported barely enough to last the nation ten more days. President Truman's three-man board of inquiry which has been keeping a close eye on the negotiations between Lewis and the coal operators, was to report to the White House with Ching this morning (10 a.

m. EST). Yesterday's negotiations lasted until almost midnight. Ching and Board Chairman Ddv- id L. Cole soberly told reporters afterward that little progress was made.

Lewis' money demands were discussed thoroughly, Cole said, but there was "no agreement on anything." New talks were scheduled today (EST). The union chief's sudden new 1 plea to the 370,000 striking miners to get back on the job immediately "for the protection and welfare of our union" met with no comment from his top lieutenants in the field, but rank-and-file members had plenty to say. Typical retorts went this way: "The miners are still madder than hell" and the Lewis order "won't do any good" without a new contract to replace the one which ran out last June 30. That let even more clouded the question of who is responsible for the miners' defiance of ten- day court order banning a strike. Writing a Column Is Getting to Be Perilous the Readers Nowadays Are Fighting Back By HAL 'BOYLE New York, WRiting a column for the newspapers is getting to be downright perilous.

Our windy Mount Olympus is under siege. The readers are fighting It used to be a columnist didn't know where his next chunk of cuv- one with three eyes can't be blamed too much for anything he does. What worries me about the Hollywood skunk Valentine episode is lhat it sets a bad precedent. What if I unknowingly wrote something that peeved John D. Rockefeller, I might open my door some morning and find a whole heard Jar was coming from.

Now he of white elephants tied to it. This doesn't know whence the next brick is going to be flung at him. But he feels sure there hamburger tied to it. Latest case in point is Actress won't bo would be hard to explain to my apartment houscmanager, he doesn't even allow eagles or small dogs in the place. now on no columnist can Joan Bennof's Valentine gift of a feel safe from the "indignant si.b- deodomed skunk to Columnist jscriber." The world is full of Hopper, who heralds from beetles to buffaioej and penings in Hollywood.

the columnist who wittinulv or un- A gesture as a criticism of her literary efforts, Die lady columnist gave the woods pussy to cat- IfancHT, murmuring in Ihi- "great (affinity between cats and skunks." anyone shipped Personally, if Tasker L. Odciic-, former sovtrnor Irne £1 sanitary skunk" I'd have-'kept and United States senator and put him to ivork I'd tit- Nevada whose political career in-him to my dusk to scare away disparaging parents sent to a columnist that state spanned the first third ipross agents. Often these spending of the century, died at his home bore last nighl. He was Oddiu suffered a heart attack four wi-t'ks ugo. For many yvnis, hd and his wife had made Sa: their home in winter, the summer at their Nevada home.

Btij-n in Brooklyn, N. Oddie when he was IB moved west to a Nebraska raiich for his health. He returned to New York after three I years, his health improved, and he studied law at night while working in a real estate office by day. I by hit, riled readers can tu further his career. Onee a stranger sent me dish blue glass eye, and i Jnive it highly useful.

When the receptionist comes in to "here's man out something "show hii here at I tell her, columnist who wittingly or unwittingly olfends his readers may shortly find his home has become an annex to the zoo. It is easy to say, "well, don't write things that annoy But just try writing a column yourself and see how many days you can go without making someone angry. Anything you stir up reader wrath, writ': can en you just say, "etaoin shudrlu. c-taoin shrdlu." They get the idea don't like foreigners. My own lifelong policy iias been to attack nothing but poison snakus and sin.

But when 1 did Churchill Again Urges Big-3 Talks London, Fb. .18 Winston Churchill, defying censure by his Laborite opponents in Britain's election campaign, repeated his plea last night for high level talks between the West and Russia on atomic bomb control. Labor Prime Minister Clement Attlee promised to comment on the proposal in a political broadcast tonight. The 75-year-old Tory leader reiterated his call for East-West atom control talks outside the United Nations in a final broadcast to the nation allotted to his party over the British Broadcasting corporation. Attlee, having finished a mile tour of the country in his drive for re-election, is to make his Labor party's final broadcast tonight (4:15 p.m.

EST) from the prime minister's country home at Chequers Court, 35 miles northwest of London. Attacked by Laborite Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin for step- ing into the international ring in his Edinburgh, Scotland, speech last Tuesday, Churchill defended himself. "It is only by the agreement of the greatest powers," Churchill declared, "that security can be iiven to ordinary folk against the annihilating war with atomic or hydrogen bombs or bacteriological horrors." He angrily rejected Bevin's accusation that his suggestion was a political stunt. "By this," Churchill growled, "he (Bevin) only showed how far his mind dwells below the true level of events." criticize poison snakes in a friend-1 Bevin like United States offi- Jy way reci-ntly, a naturalist wrote back: "Who are you to pick on you wrote," in." Then I quickly i poison The average pois- tie tho glass eye onto the middle Son snake destroys more "vermin of my forehead. When I look up and say.

''yes, what is it. fellows?" the man takes one gander, wipes his face with his handkerchief, and wJlks away. He feels, 1 hope, that any than you do, apeface!" There you are. I still intend to attack sin one of these days. But sure as sin itself somebody" 1 write back and demand, "What aro trying to ray cials has taken the line that the place to negotiate atomic control is in the United Nations, or through normal diplomatic channels.

In reply to this, Churchill commented that "the United Nations cannot function while it is rent asunder by the conflicting forces of the two worlds which are ranged against each other." Rockvillc Centre, N. Feb. 18 crowded Long Island rail road train slipped past a red light a makeshift siding last night and knifed into an oncoming train. More than a score of persons died. Over 100 other persons were injured as both trains carrying approximately 1,000 ripped inhalf lengthwise.

Twenty-nine persons were known dead. Other bodies were 1 i crammed in the wreckage. Signalman Charles Sublacki was taken to police headquarters for questioning, He was on duty at the time of the' accident. Screaming victims were mashed beneath tons of twisted metal as the trains came together with a crash heard for hall a mile. Doctors hacked and sawed off arms and legs to free some of the injured, "An eastbound electric passenger train ran by a stop signal." was the official explanation of th Long Island railroad for what was believed to be the worst accident in its 116 It was the nation's worst train wreck since 45 persons died April 25, 1946, at Napeville, 111.

Thousands of awed but curious spectators flocked to the scene while the desperate cries of trapped victims still echoed in the night air. An estimated 1,000 passengers were on the two trains when they collided at p. m. (EST). Rockville Centre, a community of about 20,000, is 20 miles east of Manhattan island on the south shore of Long Island in Nassau county.

The accident occurred on a makeshift section of track during a months-long grade separation" construction job. Every available doctor in area was called to the seem than 50 layeH ItfjuVed' score of ambulances for transfer to hospitals in and around Rockville Centre. One doctor cut off a man's mangled arm to get him out of the derbris. Another sawed, off both legs of a trapped Negro passenger. Many of the victims screamed and prayed in pain and fright.

Others lay dead, twisted like rag dolls, their bodies broken in the split-second impact of grinding steel. "Kill me, please kill me," one man pleaded to rescuers. Another woman, tons of metal crusing her chest, "Get the weight me:" A white-faced, heart-sick rescue worker looked up at and gritted through clenched teeth: "We're not taking out bodies, we're taking out parts of bodies." Floodlights played on the wreckage as rescue workers used acetylene torches, axes and crowbars to pry Into twisted coaches of the two 10-car electric trains. Finally, railroad wreckers bulldozed their way in to jerk apart the lead coaches so the hunt for bodies could go on. A little white stucco Negro church stood a few feet from the scene.

First bodies recovered were laid on its lawn. Then the pitiful row of corpses Degan to grow. So the interior of church was converted into a morgue and the remains moved nside. Normally, the Long Island operates a two-track line- through Rpck- ville Centre for its trains between New York and Baylon, L. But for months, a grade separation project has been underway to elevate the tracks through Rockville Centre.

So trains have been operating on a temporary one track line. Phone Workers to Strike Next Friday Washington, Feb. 18 telephone workers said CIO they will strike as scheduled next Friday unless their new 15-cent-an hour wage demand prompts company negotiators to "get down to busi- less." Company officials looked over the new proposal and said: "We dont see how they justify Joseph Veirne, president of the Communications Workers of America, said last night that orders to lay the contract demand jefore telephone management had been sent to all 25 of the union's icgotiating divisions. "The next move is up to the company," Veirne's statement said, adding; "If company negotiators will get down to business, we may yet be able to reach mutually satisfactory aaieement avert the strike if they there'll be a strifee ft American Pk i Guilty Say Hungarians TELEPHONE TRIAL, IN Biy ert A. VaefllW, 39-ye'a'pi slstant vice natlonaf Tel raph CiVl pest on ehsfrgrfs" and sabotage.

American Erhst, te attempting 1 Budapest' to 8 Budapest," Hungary C3 American A. Vogeler pleaded charges today and American agent he sh'ucted to help atom ps escape from HI Hungary. Calmly confessing to charges in the -indictment him, the 38-year-old telepb'oj pany executive asked peoples feourt for "ft He said he used p'oj assistant vice president qf ternational Telegraph a "cover for my Vogpler's unemotional guilty opened the second trial in which he and, a Britain and five are accused of espionages sabotage. Vogeler, who has been I. T.J representative in 1 1045, declared he had.

beert-a army intelligence officer since As an electrjcaj and engineer, he said, the technical field is ray ty." He testified that he. structed by army officers In Vienna cial about duction, rpckets, deposits in Hungary ai touch with atom help them escape. He was on the hours during, the answered questions with' no signs Qf emotion. Recalled, to the afternoon, "I am sorry for the, ul deeds I committed a country and I ask lor a tence." Hog Scoring Evenly Divided Fayetteville, Feb. 18 cansas may win the Southv 'crence basketball out chances are you won't of its players among at season's end.

That's because are making good use of Everybody gets li pn act. It was such a team that enabled the aeat Texas, last night and first-place tfe vy odist. While fell Hess, who other got nine.