Hope Star from Hope, Arkansas • Page 1

Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor Alex. H. Wa.hhnrn Paragraphs DAY of the year is coming up next week but all days arc long days just before Christmas when you and the world are very young and wonderful. MOW ABOUT those parking me- tcrs the City of Hope is cither going to have to oil the clockwork or equip it with a muffler. Walnut street motorist said yesterday: "I don't mind the I hate to be growled at." CALENDARS TELL the time of year, but they're never in season.

The colder the day in December the barer is the bathing beau- Hope WtATHI taut 52ND YEAR: VOL. 52 NO. 54 HOPE, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1950 MtMtort Crippling Rail Strike Ends After Appeal Chicago, Dec. 10 crippling strike by railroad switchmen reportedly was ended today and there were immediate back-to-work moves in some cities. 1951." Judging the early arrivals it's going to be an extreme Winter I got three calendars before I found one that would hang safely in the office.

ONLY HUNTING I've ever done has been with a camera, but a raciio program I always find fascinating is the Rod Gun Club of the air. It's full of courtesy as well as information on wild life. This week I heard that the good hunter always asks permission of the farmer before shooting over his land. He avoids hunting in the same field with livestock. And at the end of the day he offers some of the game to the man on whose place it was bagged.

Nice going -J-HIS ISN'T FIRE Prevention week but any week you forget about fire can be pretty grim. I'm telling a Hope story. A local man with livestock that should be home-fed this Winter because of high-priced cattle rations went out and planted many acres of lespedeza. He thought he had protected himself and his cattle. And so he someone threw a lighted match out of a car window and started a grass fire.

Now the Ics- pcdeza's all gone. Think about this the next time you start to throw away a match or cigarette before you're sure it's country road. "out" on a Calves Are Vaccinated for Bangs In nine days worked 362 replacement heifer calves on 62 farms have been vaccinated for Bang's disease reports Oliver L. Adams, HenTpstcad-County Agent. The vaccinator, Joe Hamilton, representing the Bureau of animal Industry and the State Veterinarian lost only one c'ay because of bad weather since the program was commenced on December 4, When bad weather occurs a new date will be given the farmers affected through a card from the County Agent.

The schedule of calfhood vaccination for next week has been mailed to farmers to be assisted. Owners of 4 to 8 months of age heifer calves to be kept for herd replacements who have not requested their vaccination are invited to discuss the program with the at any of the farms where work is being done or to call the County Agent's office. No charges are made for the vaccina tion or the vaccine used. To date 138 cattle owners have requested? the vaccination of replacement heifers for Bang's disease. All requests for such assistance cannot be filled before about January lath.

Farmers with eligible heifers needing vaccination should make their request at once if it has not been filed says Agent Adams. The vaccinator's schedule for week calls for work on the following farms: Monday, December 18th at the farms of: Jno. J. Wilson, Horace Dillard, E. V.

Stewart, and J. V. Reed Tuesday, December 19th at the farms of: Dr G. D. Royston, John Adams, T.

A. Smith, T. F. Smith, Aleola Wade, Clem Dixon, and Bennie Mitchell Wednesday, December 20th at the farms of: Tom Ashford, John Wester, John Hatfield, Vernon Mes- scr, Bill Stroud, and Cecil Wyatt. Thursday, December 21 at the farms of: Chlora Citty, Rush Jones James D.

Ball, Earl King, Shirley Robins, John Taylor, Floyd Matthews, Rush Staggers, Fay Walker, and Harvey Mcrriwcathcr. strike by a top ranking labor official in Washington came after President Truman appealed to the switchmen to stop their "unlawful" walkout. The official asked not to be identified. Strikers returned to work in the early morning in at least two cities Washington, D. and Battle Creek, Mich.

Mr. Truman's appeal was at least partly responsible. While there was no general back- to-work move in the early morning hours, there were reports of strikers being told to return to their jobs later today. One report was in Chicago, the nation's rail center where the strike started last Wednesday. A local union president said chiefs of the Chicago locals had decided to end the walkout.

In Washington, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen said union officials were making "another effort" to get all the strikers back to work. This announcement was made before the reported agreement on all issues in the wage and hour dispute between the union and. the railroads. Terms of the reported agreement were not immediately disclosed. The union had been seeking a 40- hour work week at 48 hours pay.

The issues have been in dispute for 21 months. The strike, termed unauthorized by the BRT, appeared to have stemmed from the failure to reach settlement before President Truman froze wages. More than 10,000 rail yardmen in a dozen cities across the country joined in the strike. President Truman, in his crisis speech to the na tion last night, said the walkout was slowing industry and adding to "the country's danger." He demanded the strikers return immediately to their "posts of duty." The nation's railroads were taken over by the government last. August pending settlement" of the wage-hour dispute.

A local union official in Washington said strikers returning to work "definitely" were influenced by Mr. Truman's request. But in Battle Creek, where 80 switchmen went back to their jobs, a union official said their action was in response to appeals by union officials President Truman. Before Mr. Truman's demand for the end of the rail tieup, the government started contempt action against the union.

The court action came yesterday as the strike spread to more cities and more war supplies, mail and Christmas packages were delayed. Talent Night Program Nets A talent night program held December 8, under sponsorship of th? high school PTA netted the organ- $219.75, it was announced today. This money will be used as part payment on a new electric cold water fountain to be installed on the first floor of the school, $50 will BO to the school library and $25 to the Youth Center and other projects. The group extended? special appreciation of Forney Holt, Clarice Brown, Greta Caston and all other persons and busness organizations who helped to make the undertaking a success. Population of many, is 400,000.

Ger- LETTER TO Lentz, 11-year-old polio victim at Coply Memorial Hospital, Aurora, 111., has found the only way she can write Santa Claus is to clutch a pen in her teeth. Instead wf asking for gifts, Barbara, who.has been crippled over a year, 1 asked Santa to thank all the people who helped her by contributing to the March of Dimes. Assisting the little girl is Nancy Kelly, occupational therapist. WAR WIDOW AT Barbara Sullivan, right, 15- year-old expectant mother, has been notified by the War ment that her husband, Pvt. Lawrence Sullivan, 17, was killed in action in Korea.

The young widow is seen in Louisville, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Decker, and a picture ot the soldier huvband. Car License Go on Sale January! 1951 Passenger car license will go on sale January 2. Arkansas Certificates of Title are not issued on a yearly basis.

If the applicant is registering the same car which was registered by him in 1950 the Certificate of Title will remain valid for so long as he remains the owner of the car. On new vehicles or vehicles never before titled in Arkansas, the applicant will be required to apply for Certificate of Title, fee for which is 50 cents, in adcfltion to the purchase of his regular 1951 license. If applicant has not received his Arkansas Certificate of Title and there is no loan on the vehicle he should contact the Motor Vehicle Division, Little Rock, Arkansas, immediately. The following papers will be required in securing 1951 Arkansas liuense where the car has been registered in Arkansas for the year 1950: (a) Those cars which are not Financed The Arkansas Certificate of Title and the 1950 Arkansas pink Rcgristeration Certificate. (b) Those cars which are Arkansas Certificate of Title Number, which must be secured from, the loan company, and the 1950 Arkansas pink Regis- teration Certificate.

In cases where the owner is reregistering the car and can present the Arkansas Certificate of Title, this title should be presented to the Revenue Inspector for examination only and should not be surrendered to him if the title is issued in the same name as the person applying for re-registera- tion. TAPPED BY TRUMAN-Rep. F. Edward Hebert above, has joined the growing group of recipients-of President Truman's famous snappy letters. He wrote the President suggesting a day of national prayer for guidance through the present world crisis.

Mr. Truman referred the congressman to his presidential Thanksgiving Day proclamation as an answer, then lashed out at the "low" level of politics in Louisiana and other states during the recent campaign. Congressman Hebert said he was shocked the President's display of "political distemper." Ban Lifted by Army at Texarkana Miner Rescued After 54 Hours Underground Selleck, Dec. 16 Us life saved by the same huge aeam that held him prisoner 400 ''eet underground for 54 hours of John Wolti was clawed to 'reedom by rescue crews last night. The 54-year old miner was weak, pain wracked and near a state of shock when he was brought to the surface at 9:20 p.

m. (CST). His right arm was crushed and lis face covered with a grimy, growth of beard. But you could see etched into his face a of the agonizing doubt-filled lours he had spent in what rescuers were sure until early yesterday was his tomb. Wolti was caught in an avalanche of rock and timbers Wednesday when the mine roof gave way.

Several other miners escaped, but they were sure he had been swept to his death by the sliiit which came without warning. And he would have been, too, Wolti said, except for a huge 12 by 12 timber. The big timer held him securely, but it and others fell around him in such a -manner that they held off the other debris. He was able to breathe and he remained conscious. "It got cold.

Then it Defense Funds Quickly Passed by the House Washington, Dec. 16 passed by the house in record time, a $17.809,304,424 emergency defense bill was wheeled into position today for senate action expected next week. It zipped through the house late yesterday with only one member speaking against it. Vito Marcantonio, American-Laborite from New York, who defeated for re-election Nov. 7 called it another part of Jhe 'floctrine of the inevitability of war." But his voice of opposition was drowned out in the thunderous voice vote which sent the bill through the house under suspension of the rules less than five hours after the appropriations committee had approved it.

The bill boosts to the defense funds'appropriated by the expiring 81st congress for the year ending next June 30. The appropriations committee said still more may be needed soon to continue the Korean fight and the nation's world wide defense program. The senate approprations committee called a Saturday session to work on the bill and have it ready for a senate vote probably by Wednesday or Thursday. Less than one billion dollars of the bill's total was for so-called non-defense items. For the defense establishment alone the army, the navy and the air corps the bill appropriates $16,845,181,000.

Another $840,000,000 was set aside for the atom ic energy commission to step up its production of atomic weapons. Not a single cent was cut by the house from the money sought by President for the military establishment. But the house resisted every attempt to add funds. Beaten were proposals to add to the bill new money for civilian hospitals, for re- Search work on arthritis and other diseases; for aid to fiisaster-stricken areas, and for the construction of cargo ships by the administration. Truman Only Set a Few Goals By JAMES MARLOW Washington, Dec.

16 (JP) Truman has called for much less than all-out mobilization right away. And, except for the draft, the changes which affect civilians will not come all at once. In his talk to the nation last night he set some "immediate" goals. They will get the country -started on mobilization and war production Once under way. these goals can be stepped up.

They lay a foundation for a much wider and sudden expansion, if that's considered necessary The question, of course, is this. Will the Russians wait that long before startig a war? The President is going to build up the armed forces. And he called for higher taxes and much greater defense production, which will mean less civilian goods. But all- out mobilization would mean: A terrific cut in civilian goods, censorship, such a rigid government control of people they could be told whereto work, and other things. That may come, but not now.

NM Mir Clrtl. MM. tMHng Grave Danger, Tru Warns Nation, Sp Rearmament Prog Americans Abandon Hamhung to Chinese But Leave City Completely Wrecked Tokyo. Dec. 16 Allied 1 beachhead forces abandoned Ham- hung today to the Chinese Reds pounding against them in masses of "sea wave" attacks.

The defenders Withdrew from the wrecked industrial city into a tight ring around Hungnam port on the Sea of Japan, six miles to the southeast. Demolition charges 1 a stcd the heart of Hamhung before the pullout. Terror-stricken North Korean refugees swarmed by tens of thousands across frozen fields and down roads toward the Allied beachhead. As the last American soldier left Hamhung a Red Korean flag flapped out over one house. Field dispatches indicated the withdrawal was made according to plan into defenses in depth to the shore.

The city lay open to Chinese Communists who watched from outlying ridges as demolitions cascaded towering clouds of black smoke into the sky. Then the Chinese swarmed into the Hamhung suburbs. The Chinese pressed Allied defenders into their shrinking beachhead wth attacks that overran forward positions by sheer weight of manpower masses. "They are throwing great groups of people in columns at one point in our line," Maj. Gen.

Robert Soule said. "It is the same 'sea wave' tactic they used in China route Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists). "They try to overrun one It's a ferocious 'at- By numbers they are bound to pver- run some of us. "You just have got to kill That's the only thing stick and kill them." Soule is commander of the U. S.

Third division. Its American, Puerto Rican and South Korean infantrymen with their backs to the sea are defending the tiny U. S. 10th corps toehold in the Hamhung- Hungnam port area. An army security blackout continued to blanket reports of Allied troops not engaged in combat operations.

For the third straight day the Chinese have thrown thrusting attacks against the Allied line, prob ing for a weak spot. Staff officers said the big Chinese Red ofensive aimed to knock oul the 10th Corps may come within the next 48 hours. While Doughboys fought off Communist assaults or croache in snow-lined foxholes awaiting at tack, the navy's big guns pounded Communist troops swarming along Continued on Page Four GOP Demands Acheson Be Replaced 16 The formal demand of Republican congressmen that President Truman fire Secretary of State Acheson hit walls of silence today at the White House and state department. Senate Democratic Leader Lucas of Illinois told the senate late yesterday that the Republican party stand for immediate moval of -the secretary of state was "an Invitation to Stalin to strike anywhere." Lucas referred to the resolution adopted earlier in the day by an overwhelming voice vote taken in a house Republican caucus. The resolution was proposed by house Republican Leader Martin of Massachusetts.

House Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex) called it "a tragic mistake." While Lucas was talking, senate Republicans by a 23 to 5 vote in a closed'door conference adopted the three-paragraph house state ment. but added to it a reserved pledge of cooperation drafted by Senator Taft of Ohio, the senate GOP policy chieftain. The White house and the state department declined to comment. But Mr. Truman said last night, in his report to the nation on new mobilization goals, that Acheson wHU-fly to Europe Sunday to rep'resentatlvTsS 1 "of 'dtheVTnfc in setting up armed for Western Europe.

Mr. Truman has said repeatedly in the past that he intends to keep Acheson. The President also has the reputation of backing his appointees and friends against congressional attacks. How he would react to the overwhelming Republican vote on the resolutions was a wide open question here, Acheson has 'said he has no intention of resigning. The text of the senate resolu- idcnt Truman pat speeding, urd.

chinery in motion'today-! rearmament 1 forcing Russia to stead ot wan As a first step pension to full tnoblJfeMt becomes announced? he Is dec al emergency citizen to put' aside his terests for 1 the good of, try," For members of tlonal guard units that to active service young men, ductions were in shortcut road i to a 3,1 armed for.ce> For man on the Truman said in a radio ep night the new acceleral gram in sel controls on defense ing items, higher (H work days in farms, curtailed', ctvjlir tion and sharp cutbacks, ment non-defense He warned that "chisl not be allowed to get awa violations 'of standards. He called on yard workers to jobs, saying that rail had slowed country's dartre The President trie's Charles ot an office tion: In this critical hour, confidence of the American people In their leadership is essential to our security. "It is completely obvious that Secretary Acheson and the state department under his leadership have lost the confidence of the congress and the American people and cannot regain it. "Recognizing this fact, we earnestly insist for the good of our country that Mr. Acheson be replaced as secretary of state, that there be a thorough (Continued on Page Four) tion, giving him directing manpower, nomic stabllizationl that production pro: fold wv comb9 including i and.f half times afc muchr.

equipment as is out. Its Indeed, a Sad Thing for the Living to Walk Away, Very Quietly, From the Dead er," he recalled after his arrival at the Enumclaw hospital, 15 miles cade mountain foothills. The President said there must be wage and price controls. And in time all wages and prices may come under pontrols. But at this time the President wants only limited wage and price controls.

He said the government is starting at once to put price controls on items mostly important to defense production and living costs. And he said the government would hold down wages in those controlled businesses. But what about all the other busi- esses and people not put under price or wage controls? Mr. Truman said the government would try to set up for them fair standards of prices and wages. The fact is, the government simply can't impose blanket price and wage controls i in i a tely.

It doesn't have the machinery. The office of price control has a staff of only about 150 people It would need thousands The most that can be done at in the Cas-jthig tjme js to i amp and got cold- wage controls on curtain industries. A long time went by. A hell of Lat when thc icc contro oKlce a long time. Then I heard somcl has morc people, the controls can 1 crosses.

By TOM tAMBEBT (For Hal Boyle) With U. S. Marines, Korea The general arrived early, for these had been his marines and he owed them more than the few brief words he would speak during the ceremony. He walked slowly up the hill, the redclay mud gathering in great lumps on his shoepacs, and stood very still for a moment at the foot of the plot of graves. The white crosses and the star of avid gleamed on the i 1 Iside against the rust-colored muddy ground.

There was a thin powder of dust on the older graves, and the crosses on them had been dulled somewhat by the weather. The mud was fresh on the new mounds and the crosses were lustrous. To the north lay the mountains. Here these marines had died fighting for towns with strange names like Koto and Hagaru and Ydom. To the south lay the sea.

Maj. Gen. Oliver P. Smith, commander of the First Marine division. Walked slowly among rows Tibet's only communications with the outside world are a few state-owned wireless sets and a single telephone line to northern India.

heard me. Texarkana, Dec. 10 "Then I kind of gave up. I didn't A police olt'icer has been sus- pended as an outgrowth of a char; that an army lieutenant was beaten by police at a night club here. Polite Chief Jack Runnels saidj yesterday he suspended a i i in a Henry Slaton upon rec-oimnenda-i working space.

Wolti carried on a lion of the Texarkana, city running patter of comment. He Mr. Truman did not appoint a price control administrator until think I could make it. I passed out. three months after congress passed Then I came to and heard more a i aw ajvin" the government con- lvm duo, I yelled and They heard me this time." tn 10 tilted plateau.

From a white pole the half-masted flag hung limp in the still air. A marine firing squad wearing parkas and helmets and carrying I trol over wages and prices. He their rifles carefully under watch- named Michael Di Salle on Dec. ful eyes of a bearded sergeant two days after the government's crossed before General Smith and UIAJ.J VI vlltrj the dangerous rocks and timbers; figures showed living costs have! lined up on his right a little three feet by five an all-time high. Two marines walk civil service commission.

even joked grimly. walked up the hill Even in defense ion! and atop the dirt which had been there's no sign of all-out mobilizar-1 scooped from the plateau to make Continued on Pago Four the graves. They took off their win- tor caps and stood at attention, The mrines' chaplains came forward then, looking north, and prayed for those who lie here. One of them said: "May hate cease and wars be forever ended." The small group of marines at the flagpole -and the few soldiers and marines standing to the side kept looking ahead. Now a sudden breath of wind arose and unfurled the flag from the pole and it stood out to the north, toward the graves.

A flight of marine corsairs drummed north, flying very high. Then General Smith stepped toward the graves. He is a tail thin man and he looked lonely against the background of white crosses. He took off his fatigue cap and the sun glinted on his white hair. He turned and faced the few who had come to the cemetery and he spoke briefly of the dead.

"It is regrettable that their last resting place must for the time being be in foreign said. "But the memory of what they here will remain with us always." The firing squad sergeant gave his orders then, not loudly, and the three volleys crackled in the cold sunlight. Then a bugler walked across the cemetery, behind the last row of crosses, and stood at attention and blew the mournful "taps." The wind died down on the notes and the flag tell back against the flagpole. Then the living walked very quietly, from the dead, shouted ij $17,809,000,000 "military-, Senate passage is week. will gi? least before June $6, leader approved pros" ures.

But some of said they don't go far enough, Hempstea ffi -V Disaster for Cotton Washington 'Dee, 1 Arkansas be eligible fo.r dj from the ture. i This was 1 the department ties ftete' areas undw Little J. state dirgqtor of farmer, honje ad unable to. vate sources ana turn to the gsver Fifty-three declared diseaster of reduce4 c(' by exeefsivs er, boll weevils anfl Tws cause The 1890 wtfton 53 counties 1949. In all was below tht IS Last ignated.

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