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tions Saturday. with showers in south portion tonight and Saturday. A little warmer in north and central WEATHER FORECAST. Texas Partly cloudy The Mexia Daily -A HOME-OWNED. INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING THE PEOPLE: '52 VOLUME LIT UNITED PRESS FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE MEXIA, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 11, Texas Senate Would Allow Ike to Run on Two Tickets As Presidential Candidate (UP) A' bill which would allow to run as both a Republican and Demnominee in Texas in 1952 was approved working for about 90 minutes, conducted a House was in weekend adjournment.

measure cleared by a 19-7 vote and now goes to the House where' rough opposition was anticipated. The bill was sponsored bv Sen. Kyle Vick, of Waco, and would allow a candidate's name to appear on the general election ballot as the nominee more than one party. Sen. Vick explained he had Gen.

Eisenhower in mind when he introduced the bill. However, the measure was lambasted by Sen. Rogers Kelly, of Edinburg, RS threat to the Democratic party. Prior to adjourning until day, the Senate received a committee-approved measure au- thorizing the railroad commission to set a' minimum field price on natural gas. The measure was approved, 9 to 6, by the Senate oil, gas and mining committee yesterday.

The committee-approved measure contained an amendment, by Sen. Howard A. Carney, Atlanta, providing that any increase in prices authorized by the railroad commission could be passed on to the consumer. House Feces Tax Bill When the House returns next week, it will still be faced with the troublesome omnibus tax bill which was approved yesterday by the Senate. After debating the matter for one hour yesterday, House members turned down a proposal to send the bill to a conference committee and reject Senate amendments.

Before House members closed up shop for the weekend, they approved by a slim 72-61 margin the single- package appropriation bill which called for a $200.000,000 state spending program for the next two years. The appropriation bill now goes to the comptroller. Funeral Services In Wortham Today For Sim Bounds AUSTIN Dwight D. Eisenhower ocratic presidential today by the Senate. The Senate, solo session.

The The election Funeral services were held at the First Methodist church in Wortham this afternoon, at 3 o'clock for Sim who was found dead at his home yesterday morning. Wortham Justice of the Peace J. P. Wasson returned a verdict of murder and suicide in the deaths of Mr. Bounds and his 52 year old wife.

Lillian Loraine. Constable Walter Moore, of Wortham. reported that Mr. Bounds shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. The services this afternoon were conducted by the Rev.

Roy Davis, pastor of the Methodist church. Burial was in the Wortham cemetery with the Burleson funeral home in charge. Mr. Bounds is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Rankin, Texas City, a sister, Mrs.

Annie Bounds, Waco, several nicoes and nephews, and three grandchildren. Meanwhile in Bremond, services were pending for Mrs. Bounds while word is awaited from her daughter, Mrs. L. L.

Parish, in Java. She is survived by her mothCr. Mrs. Emma Hand, Bremond, and three other daughters, Mrs. J.

Z. Baker, Miss Kay Pringle, both of Dallas, and Mrs. Gene Pringle, Kilgore. Also surviving are two sons, James and N. D.

Pringle, both of Corsicana: five sisters, three brothers, and six grandchildren. Coolidge Organizes Local Dairy Unit, Reed Is Chairman Residents of Coolidge organized a local dairy unit last night to work in conjunction with the Limestone County Youth Dairy program. A. V. Reed was named chairman of the Coolidge group and Loyle Daniels and Joe Fred Bennett were named committeemen.

L. L. Brown, Coolidge ag teacher, was automatically named to the county executive board. Representatives of Coolidge, Groesbeck, Mart, and Mexia will meet at the J. V.

Cafe in Mexia Monday night at 7:30 for the final report of sponsors for the first round of the dairy program, THOUGHT FOR "THE DAT Is want every Democrat to: patriotism above politics. Pres. ident Truman 1,000 Killed In. Quake stunned resident walks through the streets of Jucuapa, San Salvador, after earthquake struck town. This area, and the town of Chinameca were hardest hit by quake which took heavy toll.

killing 1,000 persons and injuring 4.000 others. (NEA Telephoto.) Hundreds Hail Birthday Of Mexia Masonic Lodge Over 250 members of the Masonic order from lodges throughout Central Texas converged on Mexia last night and joined the local Springfield lodge in a colorful and dramatic observance of its 100 years of continuous activity in Limestone county, Some 600 people attended an open' meeting at the Mexia city auditorium, following a meeting for Masons only, and heard a history of the Springfield lodge, talks by the grand master of Texas Masons, and witnessed several celebration eevnts. W. J. Burris, of McAllen, grand master of the grand lodge of Texas, which has some 200,000 members in its 916 lodges, presented Sterling Baldree, master of the local lodge, with an official.

gertificate commemorating the 100th anniversary. Sponsor Education Mr. Burris also outlined some of the major projects of public servite which Texas Masons sponsor, including a home for children and a home for the aged, two hospitals for crippled children, and a dormitory for women at the University of Texas. Mr. Burris also recalled that Quadruplets Born To Mexican Mother Of Twins, Triplets MATAMOROS, Mex.

(UP) A set of quadruplets, born to a Matamoros housewife who already had triplets and twins, has been. taken to a hospital in Monterrey. The quads, two boys and girls, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jesus De Los Reyes Wednesday morning.

Three were born around 7 a. m. and the other about four hours later. Dr. Manuel F.

Rodriguez Braida attended the births. The doctor and two nurses accompanied the parents and babies to Monterrey where the babies were placed in incubators. the Masonic order is known as the founder of free public school education in Texas, and urged his listeners to take a greater sonal interest at this time in public school affairs. He recognized 52 years of Masonic service by J. Sandford Smith, of Mexia, and 50 years each by C.

Strange, and John Peter Stubbs, both of Wortham, presenting pins to the latter two. "The fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man is the basis of Mason's belief," Mr. declared. Past Masters Horace G. Jackson, of Gatesville, past grand master of the grand lodge of Texas, made a speech of appreciation for the services rendered by 14 past masters of the Springfield lodge and three affiliated past masters who were introduced by Jerry Miller, lodge secretary.

-These men included: J. R. VanWinkle, George M. Tidwell, M. W.

Anderson, S. R. Partlow, G. D. Hardin, W.

W. Roland, D. L. Sheffield. Herman E.

Hitt, T. T. Barnes, M. LaMarque, W. H.

Cook, O. D. Quillen, C. W. Chilcoat, and Leo Demoney, past masters, and R.

J. Harper, E. C. O'Banion, and Jake Stubbs, affiliated, past masters. Mr.

Harper, who is district deputy grand master, introduced Mr. Burris, Mr. Jackson, and the following district deputy grand masters: H. G. Hagood, of Melford; G.

L. Smith, Hillsboro; O. C. Crane, Franklin; and Henry Cowan, Noel of Hollingsworth, Rogers. of Mexia, presented a brief history Springfield lodge its founding in January, 1851, with the late Judge D.

W. Prendergast as its first master. M. W. Anderson presided over the open meeting, which was opened and closed by prayers by Hamill.

M. T. Fuller read the original charter and dispensation of the grand lodge of. Texas. The original charter was on display.

Striking Power of Reds Badly Mauled by Allies By HARRY FERGUSON UP Foreign News Editor Balance sheet for the week between good and bad news in the hot and cold wars: Good News 1. The size of the United Na-! tions victory in the first round of the Communist spring offensive grows by the day. Red casualties were around 75,000, some 24 di-1 visions were badly mauled and the entire army has been forced to pull back. The Chinese Communists probably will strike another blow, but their ability to attack has been severely curtailed. 2.

Sentiment is growing among America's allies to impose a tighter embargo on Red China in an attempt to drain her capacity to make war. The United States already has a complete embargo on shipments of goods and would Britain halt the announced sending yesterday of rubber she to Communist China for the rest of this year. 3. There doesn't seem to be any doubt that the United States already has perfected or is about to perfect a deadly fied, weapon which utilizes atomic warheads. If atomic artillery: Gen.

Mac Warned From Actions That Might Spread War Pal of Mayor O'Dwyer Gets Jail Sentence NEW YORK (UP) James J. Moran; friend and political protege of former Mayor William O'Dwyer, was sentenced today to five years and fined $2,000 for perjury. It was the maximum sentence possible. Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey followed the recommendation of the government in' imposing the stiff penalty on the 49-yearold former city official, who lied to the Senate Crime Investigating committee.

Defense Attorney Joseph L. Delaney said that he would file a notice of appeal immediately. Moran was found guilty by a jury Tuesday. He lied when he told the Kefauver committee in March that Brooklyn "policy king" Louis Weber visited him no more than a half dozen times when Moran was first deputy fire commissioner and the man closest to Mr. O'Dwyer while the latter.

was mayor. Weber, who denied before the Kefauver committee having visited Moran at all, is scheduled to go on trial for perjury Monday. Coincident with his sentencing, Moran was handed a subpena by the government to appear as a witness. government called witnesses who proved that the racketeer visited Moran no less than 100 times. Moran offered no defense.

Judge Dewey permitted Moran to go free in the custody of his attorney until 4 p. mi. when he must post $25,000 bail to remain free pending appeal. The' prosecution argued unsuccessfully that Moran should be remanded to jail. Pro-American New Panama President, Former Chief Jailed PANAMA CITY, Panama (UP)- Pro-American Alcibiades Arosemena took over as president of Panama today while his outsed predecessor languished in a jail cell.

Deposed President Arnulfo Arias surrendered to the national police Panama's only armed force- late after they had beseiged the presidential palfour bloody. hours with machine rifles, pistols and tear-gas bombs. Ten persons were killed and 75 wounded in the battle at the palace. That brought the toll in three days of rioting in the presidential crisis to at least 13 dead and 185 wounded or injured. What charges will be lodged against Arias have not been disclosed.

Ironically, his term as president was ended by the same police who had installed him in office in a coup 17 months and 17 days earlier. Arias was overthrown because he arbitrarily revoked the public's 1946 constitution, dissolved the national assembly and tried to set up a dictatorship (Tuesday night. He said he needed more power to safeguard the security of the republic and the Panama Canal against the Communists. A general strike and violent street rioting greeted his nouncement. The national sembly declared its dissolution invalid, impeached Arias for abuse of office and swore in Arosemena, then a vice-president, as the new president Wednesday night.

Britons Redfaced As Gift To Texas Recovered In Safe LONDON (UP) An autographed portrait of Princess Elizabeth and. her daughter supposedly shipped as a gift to Edinburg, located amid painful embarrassment today in a room of the British foreign office. Diplomatic tongues were most muted by the blunder. al- "It is all a one striped pants official stuttered. "The photograph is here in safe custody--in fact in this very office." The crate arrived amid ceremonies in Edinburg last Tuesday.

There was nothing in it but British excelsior. Chinese Commanders Urge Troops to Hold Korean Battle Lines TOKYO (UP) sorted to battlefield pressed forces on the ing them reinforcements But' United Nations positions and recaptured five miles north of Elsewhere along Chinese Communist commanders loudspeakers to encourage their hardeast-central Korean front today, promif they would hold ther lines. forces overran the Reds' mountaintop Inje, an important highway town the 38th Parallel, without firing a shot. the 100-mile Korean front there was an an ominous stiffening of enemy resistance. Allied troops probing towards suspected Communist buildup points on the western front north of Seoul were blocked by Red forces apparently thrown' out to screen the main Chinese armies.

The Reds put special emphasis on the central front. They were reported massing west, north and east of Kapyong and Chunchon, giving indications they may be about to pull the trigger on round two of their spring offensive. "Help On The Way. The enemy loudspeakers were heard east of the Inje while South Korean troops were knocking two companies of Communists off a hill. "Hold your positions all costs," the loudspeakers blared in Chinese.

"Reinforcements are on the But the allies found no immediate sign of the promised reinforcements. Field dispatches rather said there were signs of a new withdrawal between Inje and Yanggu, 10 miles to the northwest. Fifteen miles of Seoul, on the opposite end of the front, allied patrols were halted by tank traps protected by heavy rifle and machine gun fire. Enemy Casualties Soar The U.S. Army said today that Chinese Communist and North Korean forces have suffered 662 casualties through April 30.

The total includes enemy casualties suffered during the first nine days of its big spring offensive. By comparison, United Nations forces have suffered roughly 055 casualties through last Friday -including 64,035 Americans, some 180,000 South Koreans, and 4,000 troops of other United Na- Texas Sheriff Nabs Bank Robber Hour After Cash Taken (UP) A hitchhiking bank bandit robbed the Collinsville State bank of 009 today, but was apprehended about an hour later and all of the. money The bandit, who identified himself as Earl Franklin Morris, 29, of Wichita Falls, walked into the bank at 9 a.m. opening and obtained the money while holding a .32 caliber Italian-make pistol. An hour later he was arrested a mile from the bank by Grayson county deputy Sheriff John Everdige.

Morris told officers he had hitchhiked into Collinsvile, about 15 miles southeast of Sherman, I last night and was. hitchhiking out when the deputy spotted him. It was the second bank robbery in Texas within a week. The First State bank at Poteet was held up by three armed youths Tuesday and $1,648 taken. The youths later were arrested at San Antonio.

Little Mexia Boy Recovering After Highway Accident Louis Edward Williams, fouryear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Williams, is recovering in Christoffer and Edgar hospital of injuries suffered in a highway accident late yesterday. The little boy reportedly ran from behind a parked car alongside Highway .14 and struck the side of a slowly moving car being. driven by Andrew Mosley.

A nurse the hospital said the boy. was badly, bruised. but no bones were broken. CORRECTION Peggy Durham was not among the Mexia teenage girls, in the at the Fort Parker State park Wednesday night "incorrectly stated in this pa-, per yesterday Full Text of Message Told: By Marshall Britain Still Wants To Hand Formosa To Chinese Communists eign Secretary Herbert Morrison said today. Mr.

Morrison told Commons that the government still scribes to the Cairo declaration of 1943 awarding Formosa to the "Republic of China" after World War II. But, he said, the first step was to ol obtain a Korean peace settlement. Then, the United Nations might "usefully" consider the Formosan dispute at "the appropriate time," he said. Mr. Morrison pointed out that the Cairo declaration called for freedom and independence for Korea.

He warned in effect that Red China hardly could expect to get Formosa while she was blocking unification of Korea. Sec'y. Morrison's statement put the United and Britain on the opposite side of the fence regarding the future disposition of Formosa. The Cairo eclaration was issued by the late Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. all three agreed that Formosa should be restored to China, the Soviet Union and Britain now recognize the Communist government as the legal government of China, while the U.

S. still holds Generalissimo gime on Formosa is the legal Chiang Nationalist re- government. LONDON (UP) Britain still favors handing Formosa to Red China, but only after peace has been restored in Korea, District Attorney Of San Antonio Is Dead of Jet Crash DAYTON (UP) Lt. Col. William N.

Hensley, 33, of San Antonio. was killed yesterday when his National Guard jet fighter plane crashed in a rice field eight miles north of Dayton. Hensley, district attorney at San Antonio, on leave since the 182nd fighter squadron he mands was called to active duty, was enroute to Langley Field, where the unit is stationed. The air-rescue Ellington Air Force base near Houston said Hensley radioed saying his engine had "flamed out" at an altitude of 40,000 feet. Two minutes later he radioed that the plane's "windshield has frosted over." That was the last message received.

The plane struck a power line and burst into flames as he attempted to crash land in the rice field. Shortly after the first radio message was received. the air-sea rescue unit sent a plane to the scene. Two paramedics parachuted from the rescue plane but the pilot was dead by the time they reached him. Four Bi-Stone Men Join US Air Force, Sent To Lackland Three young men from Limestone, county county and one enlisted from Freehave in.

the U. S. Air Force, William H. Rosser, recruiter for the Mexia arca, has announced. They are J.

W. Harper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Harper; Glen R. Cox, son of Mr.

and Mrs. M. R. Cox, both of Groesbeck; Joe G. Rowan, son of C.

R. Rowan, Farrar, and Tolbert Casey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tolbert Casey, Fairfield. The four youths enlisted as privates for four years and were sent to Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio for basic training and assignment to a duty station.

Houston Sales Up DALLAS (UP) A whop: ping 20 per cent gain in department store sales at Houston for the four weeks period ending May 5 compared with a similar period last year was reported today bv the Federal Reserve bank of Dallas. WASHINGTON (UP) Survivor Acie Eugene Erickson, 25, of Mexia, was one of two survivors in the crash of giant B-36 bomber' at a New Mexico air base last Sunday. Twenty-three' men died when the plane crashed and exploded on the landing field. Sgt. Erickson is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Sig Erickson, Telephone Miracles Shown Rotarians By Bell Employee small electric switches known "relays" do much of work" was demonstrated to the telephone system's "brainMexia Rotary club yesterday by Don Hanson, of Southwestern Bell Telephone company's infor-. mation department in a talk entitled "what happens when you lift the receiver." "The telephone user today can call any one of 43 million telephones in America with just few twists of the dial or by givinF. a Hanson number said. to "It's the the operator," electrical relays in telephone central offices that make these remarkable results Bells rang and lights flashed as Mr.

Hanson, who is from Dallas put a number of sample relays through their paces. He I demonstrated that relay-operated brains "remember," "forget" and perform other functions. Mexia telephone users average about 400 long distance calls daily and on. Wednesday of this week made around 12,000 local calls, Mrs. Margaret Sandifer, Mexia supervisor, revealed at the meeting.

There, are some 2,000 telephones in use she said. Mr. Hanson introduced by Harold Price, of Marling Bell Telephone company manager for this district. Vice-Pres. Franklin presided at the meeting, at which C.

Wood presented Dr. O. T. Christoffer as a returning member. Guests included Walter Stewart, Waco; Virgil Yoakum, Mar(lin; J.

Watson, and Rex Carpenter, Mexia; Richardson Wood, New York City; T. C. Lovell, Corsicana; "Junior Rotarian" Sonny Sikes and his guest, Bobby Wright. PTA CAKE. PIE SALE.

SET FOR -TOMORROW A cake and pie 'sale will be held in downtown Mexia- in front of Gafford's furniture, store tomorrow by mothers of Ross' Avenue elementary school third and fourth graders. Mrs. Leon Flatt, president of the Ross Avenue PTA, says proceeds of the sale will go into the fund for a school nurse next year. President Truman on Jan. 13 told Gen.

Douglas MacArthur that the Korean war must be fought in such a way as to give the free world time to re-arm and to keep the allies "we would desperately need" if Russia jumped into the fighting. The president's message, paraphrased to protect the code, was read by Defense Secretary George C. Marshall to the Senate Armed Services-Foreign Relations committee investigating MacArthur's dismissal. Secretary Marshall, for the fifth straight day defending adadministration policy against Gen. MacArthur's "appeasement" charges, told the Senators he considered the threat of general war.

"more acute by far" in than Europe. Toehold Wasn't Firm In the Jan. 13 message, as had previously been disclosed, President Truman warned Gen. MacArthur against any action which might spread the war to Japan and Europe, At that time, the military did not know whether MacArthur's United Nations forces could keep even a toehold in Korea. In reaching.

'a final decision. about that, the president told him, "I shall have to give constant thought to the main threat from the Soviet Union and to the need for rapid expansion of our armed forces to meet this great danger." The president made these points: 1. Success In holding the Chinese Communists would demon: strate that the UN will not" tolerate aggression and would rally the free world to meet the Soviet menace. 2. Meanwhile, nothing must done that might provoke Russia main threat" to war "pending the buildup of our na-, tional strength." Deflate Red's Prestige 3.

A successful UN stand in. Korea would deflate Red China's prestige and stiffen resistance to communism throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and even inside the Iron Curtain. It would see the UN through "its first great. effort in collective securiThe full ty." text today revealed he also said: "Our courses of action at this time should be such as to consolidate the great majority of the United Nations. A "This majority is not mereli part of the organization but is atso the nations we would desperately need to count on as allies in the event' the Soviet Union moves against Mr.

Truman also dwelt on the advantages of winning in Korca if possible. Successful resistance, Mr. Truman said, would "bring the United Nations through its first great effort in collective security" and would "produce a free world coalition of incalculable value to the national security interests of the United States." Members Of Texas Family Die At Grade Crossing shells could be added to the fire power of the United States 8thArmy, that might be the answer on how to break the stalemate in the Korean war. Bad News 1. Gen.

Douglas MacArthur and Defense Secretary George C. Marshall are in agreement; that sia has sizeable concentrations of troops and weapons within striking distance of the Korean tlefield. Gen. MacArthur thinks they are there solely for purposes, but their mere presence there is a constant threat in event -Moscow decides to take the big chance. 2.

Ten weeks of attempt to negotiate with the Russians over how, to end cold war have passed without. anything happening except the speaking of bitter words and the creation of ill will. 3. A vast of information about America's experiences in the Korean war and her plans for Communist dealing with threat the world been made public during the MacArthur hearings in Washington. It is one of the necessary penalties a nation pays for maintaining the fundamental principles- of Democracy.

HOUSTON (UP). -Three members of a Sheldon family the parents and a small daughter were killed and two. other daughters were critically injured today when a Southern Pacific passenger train hit their automobile at a grade crossing in Hous. ton. Deputy sheriffs said the parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Verton A. Kaelin, were killed instantly. The eight-year-old girl, Georgia Ansley, Kaelin's died while an ambulance was rushing her to the Pasadena general hospital. The other two girls, also" Kaelin's step-daughters, were identified as Angnes Ansley and Melva Ansley, Their condition was said to be extremely at St.

Joseph's hospital. HI NABOR It's the rarest. sort of thing that candi. date is guilty) of buying votes with his own money. Chicago Sun- Times Syndicate:.