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MARSHALL NEWS messen The Home Town Paper For Everybody In Central East Texas Local Weather MARSHALL AND VICINITY Cloudy and occasional raln tonight, Saturday; slightly warmer. SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR 11 AocUt4 frtt Ui full Lmm WLr. iJTt ratoi SrU Jft Ttiemau MARSHALL, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER 17, 1948 16 PACES--IN TWO SECTIONS NUMBER 4 GER A Spy Probers Say Bombsighf Theft Suspect Grilled Further Inquiry Undertaken Into Hiss' Activities -7 if3 I 1- IBrothers Lose 1 i 'A, t. WASHINGTON tPl Congressional spy hunters said today the man accused of getting the Nor-den Bombsight secret for Russia is a ballistics expert who has been Lives As Plane Catches Fire Two Place Craft spotted and questioned by federal agents. The House Un-American Activities committee also: Showed signs of reopening the Alger Hiss case by asking Fran WJ it: h)l "'7 -X 1 I i ans ft cis B.

Sayre, former assistant se With Missour Falls in Brush i- I I I I "i 3' cretary of the state and Hiss onetime boss, to be a witness-Monday or Tuesday. Assigned Rep. McDowell (R-Pa) 4 Two brothers were kl! Jed instant- ly about 7:30 o'clock! Thursday if! i to go to New York as a one-man sub-committee and question other night when a two pDace Cessna 140 private plane caugjht fire and I. crashed 15 miles northwest of Mar shall, near witnesses abou; Hiss' activities back in the 1930s. Kept its furious feud going with President Truman and the Justice Department.

Mr. Truman isn changing a bit his stand that the having lost their course from Sul phur, to Texarkana. Highway Patrolmen fcarl Elliott and Lewis Cowart, whd investlgat- committee spy case is a "red her ed shortly afterwards; identified ring." That's what he told a news confirmation, official or otherwise, of published reports that the plane had been readied for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in the belief he would be elected president.

This picture was made at Mitchell Field, N. Y. when the plane arrived from Washington. See story on page 2A. (AP the men from papers ih.

their bill READY FOR PRESIDENTIAL- USE, IF AND WHEN This is the interior of the stateroom of a Lockheed Constellation which is waiting for use by President Truman and other top "officials whenever the presidential plane "Independence" is not available. There was no conference late Thursday. folds as Jack Hatfield. 38, Joplin, Committee members jeered at and Horace hardware dealer, Milton Hatfield. 46, of Kruba, Cur- that, especiallj since a New York grand jury indicted Hiss on a per ucao, in the Dutch est Indies.

jury charge on evidence turned Investigators of the Civil Aero- nautics Admin Istr a tlon from up as a result ot the committee's spy hearings. Shreveport and Fort Worth were 7 Committeemen said they under REPLY TO CITY -expected "here later tod NAMED ROSE QUEEN-Vlrt. ginia Bower (above), 18-yeatl- ay to Inves- tigate the accident. B( dies of the old blonde, and blue-eyed co-ea stood the bombsight suspect testified to that same grand jury and that a new grand Jury will go at Pasadena, City Col two' men lin today were forwarded to Jop-where funeral services lege, w-as named Queen of th are to be held on arrival of Mrs. more deeply into the case.

It was 1949 Tournament of Rosea, Hatfield from Aruba. She will preside over the Toun set up after the other jury expired at midnight Wednesday. Physicians Ask Alternate Means To Pay for Downtow Parking Jack Hat- Bill Freer, frienoHof nament of Roses parade ani learly today Rep. Mundt (R-SD), acting the Rose Bowl-football game! field who arrived here from Joplin to assist ments for forwarding arrange- (AP Wirephoto) HISS IGNORES NEWS HEADLINES Crim-visoged Alger) Hiss, homeward-bound in a New York City subway train, ignores headlines telling of latest developments inj the espionage investigation. Hiss, a few minutes before this picture was made, was arraigned, fingerprinted arid photographed in Federal Court on an indictment handed up by a Federal grand jury charging him with perjury in testimony he gave before it during, the spy investigation.

(AP Wjrephoto) committee chairman, has said the man is a civilian employe of. the fcf the bod- ies, said the two brothers left Jop Army at its Aberdeen (MD) Proving Ground but is temporarily ln at 8:30 clock Thursday morn In a communication addressed to NO DETAILS ihg and flew to SulpHur, ion leave because of illness! The purchased where the elder brotheij sbme livestock, and ha left. Sul phur to fly to Texarldana where proving ground tests weapons and all sorts of equipment. The man is described as an authority on such things as rockets, bombinj. tables and pro- they had planned to spend the night with a sister, Mrs.

Leo Och- senben hectilei In general but not anyone Oi The elder brother, Mr. Freer Reds Claim Capture Of Peiping Field 40-Hour Week Favored For Railroad Workers said, Mas a stockholder i and em ployer of the Largo Oil Trans portatipn Co. and had been in the City Commission. th Harrison County Medical Society asks consideration of some more convenient method of payment for parkins downtown on the part of Its members and their office assistants than is through use of parking meters. The communication holda that physicians and their assistants can- STILL STRANDED Bad Weather Delays Rescue with a fancy title or salary.

Whittaker Chambers, who has testified that he was a courier for a Red apy ring before splitting with the Communists In 1938, apparently supplied the man's name to the committee as something of an afterthought. Aruba several years. His wife and three children, whom he left there about 10 days ago wherf he flew to joplin tor a snort vtsif, were re 1949 to prepare for inauguration tfl Tie ported flying there todiy for fun SAN Chinese FRANCISCO Communists of the shorter work week. reported eral services. The youager broth Meanwhile.

it said, an im day they captured Peiping's south mediate cents hourly wage in er, owner of the radio- equipped plane, was married, but had no airneidsat 3 a.m. (Peiping timet. crease should be granted re but several hours later Associated Children Press Correspondent Ha mid IK. Other survivors. are their mother.

Milks landed there from Nanklri M. Mr. Dovie Hatfield oft Joplin: WASHINGTON A presidential Emergency board today recommended a 40-hour work week without loss in pay for the nation's million non-operating railroad workers. The workers now are oh a 48-hour week. The three-man board recommended that present basic pay rates for the workers be increased by 23i per cent to provide "the same basic earnings in 40 hours of work as now are paid for 43 hours." In a short radio dispatch frdm brother.

Harvey Hatfield of Joplin, the emergency call which needs to be answered with as much speed as possible. In short, it is impossible for a doctor to be dropped off and called for as a means of transportation to and from office. He must have his own car readily accessible, and he mist, in most cases, a heavy bag of medical equipment to and from his car to expedite his care of the patient and to protect the bag from theft. "The doctor's assistant, who might seem to the Commission to be free to go down at intervals and feed the parking meters, is needed more constantly while the doctor is in his office than any other time. She assists both the doctor and the patient and takes constant care of the telephone.

would be wasteful of time and effort for her to leave the office, and it would be difficult at times for her to locate, a car she did not park herself. "It is not suggested by the doctors that they be relieved of their share in this new taxation. It is merely assumed that the Commission will realize their position and provide a different method of collection. "The Medical Society feels that those people who have investments in downtown real estate would not consider it good business to allow a parking inconvenience that would cause a "special group to abandon downtawn otfice space. Also, the soe'ety feels that those patients who depend upon bu service for transportation would find it a hardship to have all doctors seek residential locations, many of which are not accessible by bus tu Peiping, Milks said mortar and and a sister in Los Angeles.

artillery shells were striking with Of 9 Fliers The highway patrolmfn said re in a few hundred yards of the field ports of witnesses and those who troactive to Oct. 1. The board said the 7 cent increase would be "considerably lower" than the general pattern to third round wage increases in 1948. The five operating railroad unions, composed of approximately 350,000 workers who actually run the trains, settled for a 10-cent hourly increase several months ago. seven miles south of Peiping Sit if irst arrived at the scene of the were not hitting the field itself, crash were agreed that! He said the field was deserted.

of the plane sounded a the motor if it were first flew not always depend on having, time to extend parking privileges by additional deposits In the meters, while their cars must be parked near their offices. The communication is signed by Dr. Frank V. Mondrik. president; Dr.

J. Hill, president-elect; Dr. A. J. Phillips, vice-president elect; Dr.

J. H. Harris. ecretary-treas-urer; and Dr. H.

O. Padgett, secretary treasurer elect. It follows in full: "In reply to the City Commission's request presented the Harrison County Medical Society by means of the Marshall News Messenger, Friday. Dec. 11, 1948, under the caption 'City Warns Against Abuses In the society wishes to express itselt In this let-ter.

"First the Medical Society wishes to request that all future communications to it from the governing body of the city be sent directly and in writing. Communications received as this one was are not conducive to full undei standing on the part of those concerned. "Next the doctors of Marshall wish to state that they have not and do not hereby ask tor any 'special privileges from the City of Marshall, the City Commission, or the Police Force. The only inquiry the doctors have made is to ask what method would be expected of them in regard to paying the parking tax collected by parking meters. "The doctors feel that their position differs from that of any other individuals maintaining offices downtown within the meter tone.

In the first doctors must keep a. car on the streets of Mai-shal and as near their respective offices as they are able to find space. The reason foi this fact is thai doctors are often seeing pa tients in their offices while expecting a call from the hospital or home where they are also watching oer a patient. "Then there is always eminent operating properly as it Some abandoned planes were sit over in a southeasterlM direction, ing about and looted suitcases lit apparently toward Marshall. Righfers To Continue Fight BIRMINGHAM.

Ala. Wt State's Rights Democrats have decided to continue their fight against extension of federal powers by creation of a "public opinion" headquarters in Washington. Gov. Ben Laney of Arkansas was chairman of a steering committee that took the action Thursday. The stated purpose of the Washington office will be creation of "nationwide informed public opinion" on questions involving "the reserved powers of the state." It will be established under the name of States' Rights Institute.

To carry on the public opinion campaign, Goc. Laney will appoint a committee "to prepare tered the loading area. There were the bags of Chinese commercial W. D. Jones.

Rt. 1, rleton, the personnel who fled hastily Thursday when Communist morwr officers said, reported saw the plane, ablaze, fly back tn a northwesterly direction, low, a few mo shells struck nearby. ST. JOHN'S. Nfld.

in Efforts to fescue nine U. S. airmen, stranded on a wind swept Greenland Ice cap -were "bogged down today by bad weather, but the men remained in good spirits. "We're okay," the group mes-lasetl over its portable radio transmitter. The men asked that food and fuel for their small heater be parachuted to them.

Gliders and ski-equipped planes have been stationed 100 miles from the group's emergency a to carry out the rescue operation. A helicopter as prepared for possible ue. ments later, and crash tb the earth Milks reported he drove Into Rains Promised Over All Texas low Peiping past military Thicks afd lines of refugee, and aw wane skimmed in an area covered by ing brush. Officers said over the ground about 125 yards. The; workers had asked a cut in the w-ork week to, 40 hours, without any reduction in "take home" payi and-on top of that 25 cents an hour wage increase.

The so called "non operating" railroad workers are those who do not operate trains, The board's recommendations, made today to President Truman, are not binding on the carriers or Unions! But such recommendations made kinder terms of the Railway Labor Act usually form the basis for dispute settlements. The I board as headed by William M. Leiserson, with David L. Cole George Cook as members. parties demolishing houses outside WRECKAGE BURNING the walls lest they became Co The scene of the crash! was about munist havens.

I he airline a mile northwest of His dispatch did not say In wh beacon on the Harletoa highway. sort of plane he went to Peiping. and about a mile north ff the high way. By THE ASBOCJATED PRESS A large par of Texas was receiving light showers today and by Saturday the rainfall was expected to blanket the state. Among the points reporting light showers or drizzle this morning The Communist broadcast ga ho details of the alleged capture No Pickup.

Travis Copeland, resident near Seven of the men have been, stranded on the rap since last Thursday, when their C-4 was: forced down. The others suffered! the scene of the crash, officers said, reported he was tihe first to reach the wreckage, and said it The board said that the non- were Waco, Bryan. Lufkln. Alice. was burning.

operating rail workers should get! Corpus Christi, Abilene, Dallas, the same fate Monday when their B-17 i fortress dved into a snow bank during a rescue effort. Similar report were made by Marshall. "If Marshall had adequate parking garages or lots near the office buildings, the doctors could utilize these services, and this letter and the invitation for statement which prompted it would be entirely unnecessary. But Marhad does not have these added parking facilities, and only the public stieet with Us meter Is available at thU time." Mineral Wells, Fort Worth and Gus Alexander. Alford Jjioblee and Official Welcome Is Given Vrighf Brothers Plane others who rushed to the; scene, of ficers laid.

The Weather The man suffered the 40-hour week because "all other jinterstate industries have had the 40 hour week since 1938 when the Fair Labor Standards Act was adopted." The board said that 40 hour week "is now firmly a part of our national 'Industrial policy." The board recommended that the burns, and both bodies were bad San Angelo. An easterly circulation, of air is bringing the rain into Central and West Texas from the southern states, A cold front which passed through the state Thursday has become stationary in the Corpus Christi-Brownsville area and Is ly mangled, officers repbrted. Jus tice of the Peace W. A. Oney of By JAMES J.

STREBIG Atwclatd Prtit Aviation lUporUr Harleton returned inquest verdict of death due to injuries feseived In WASHINGTON An official plans and arrange for the incorporation of a non-partisan and nonprofit corporation." The Arkansas governor said he would name the committee after return to Little Rock. Attending the meeting from Texas was Merritt H. Gibson, Longvlew. Post Office To Remain Open All Day Saturday The Marshall Post Office will be open all day Saturday but closed the full day Sunday, Postmaster B. C.

McElroy announced He also stated that It may be possible that the post office will, close early for Christmas Eve de-j pending upon the rush, and if work! will be caught up. railroads be given until Sept. 1, causing the rain there. an airplane crash. welcome home was arranged.

oay lor tne crumsy craft whleh Firemen Rescue Worker After Water Tank Fall first propelled man into the and changed the pace of peace'aiii Harrison 4-H Members Presented war. ine ceremony comes 45 yea to the hour after Wilbur and Or- vine Wright went aloft in their A dramatic rescue to save Awards As 400 Attend Yule Part! "flyer" popularly known the "Kitty Hawk" for the Nori Carolina town near which it flew. Chief Justice Vinson was schi lin, Waskom; Patsy Jan Caldwell. duled to accept the wood, wij Marshall; Neva Nell Altorn. Kar and cloth biplane from Miltin Mrs.

Eoletta O' Mar- wright of Dayton, acting fjr nack; shall; Catherine La Forge, Halls the estate of his uncle, Orvlffie Wright. Betty Jane Spann, Extended Forecoit Texas Gulf Coast, Northeast Texa and Western Louisiana Temperatures will average 3-5 degrees above normal. Normal minimum 33 extreme north, to46 degrees near the Texas Coast. Normal maximum 54 extreme north to 63 degrees near Coast. Warmer Saturday, cooler late Sunday or 'Monday, warmer Wednesday.

Precipitation generally moderate. Rain Sunday! and again Tuesday or Wednesday. Texas west of the Gulf Plains Temperatures will average 3t5 degrees above normal. Normal maximum 50 Panhandle to 60 degrees Del K.o-Eagie Pass area. Slightly warmer Saturday, cooler Suncfay, warmer Tuesday.

Precipitation light to moderate. casional rain Saturday or Sunday and again about Wednesday. Rain, Warmer 1 East Texas Cloudy, occasional rain in north and central portions this afternoon, tonight and Saturday. Warmer extreme northwest portion tonight. Moderate southeast to east winds on coast.

Marsholl Temperatures Temperatures at Marshall, comparison with year ago, as recorded by the U. Weather Bureau: 1943 1947 8:30 a. m. yesterday 61 37 High yeserday 62 50 Low yesterday 31 a. m.

today .50 34 urville died last Jan. SO tvc Postmaster McEJroy advised people to get their mail in early and assure delivery of Christmas cards before the holidays. Marshall; Marshall; and Bar-an Fields. decades after he had sent the platie Sandra Ann McCdwn, Ann Wbatley, Karnack, bara Ann Woodley, Elys to London because American auth Winners In the boys contests in orities had been reluctant to gHi man's life was effected 80 feet above the ground through a manhole atop an enclosed water tank shortly before noon today at N. Allen by co-workers and members of the Marshall Fire Department.

He fell in at 11:30 o'clock and" was extricated at 12:30 Severely hurt was Marvin R. Harbor, 26, of Bastrop, La. He was taken to Kahn Hospital. According to Everett Bane, of 3322 Spring Dallas, a co-worker. Harbor fell 40 leet Into the bowl of the enclosed metal tank after two spider rods gave way.

Harbor was employed by the Dallas Water Tank Service. He. along with members of the crew, were welding new spider rods in the Interior of the tank. After Harbor fell. Bane and Ter nim and his brother full credit to the scene.

Police also arrived. When Fireman Joe Tutt lowered himself into the bowl of the tank by rope, Harbor first fought off attempts to extricate him. The rescuers wrapped tarpaulins around Harbor and slung ropes and be was hoisted to the top of the tank through a 26 by 15 inch hole, through which the rescue by ropes was carried out. Fireman Bobbie Oney guided Harbor to a ladder and tied him securely to it. The slow operations were hampered by light drizxle.

Once tied to the it was gradually lowered with Oney and Firemen Ruben Morris assisting rescue attempts. Mrs. W. T. O'Brien, who lives a block away from the scene of the accident, said.

"1 beard a noise, it had a metal ring to it." And neighbor, Mrs. D. L. Davidson, while returning from the grocery store, also heard the crash. Harbor is reported to have suffered head, hip, knee and ankle Injuries.

as discoverers of the principle if mechanical night. High School Club, and to Douglas Floyd. Halls ville. who were Judged to have done the outstanding Job of 4-H work during the year. He also gave Josie Slaughter, Karnack, the Gold Star award which she won last year and which she had not yet received.

Other girls who awards last night were Shirley Wells o.f Waskom, Shirley Jean Strong of Hallsville, Betty Ruth Copeland of Ware and Wanda Franklin, Port Caddo Road, in the annual garden contest; Martha Ann McClendon. Blocker, who won the leadership pin, and the who won pins for entries in the 1948 clothing contest: Kathryn Ann Dahmer. Marshall; Josie Slaughter; Martha Ann McClendon: Mary Frances La Forge of Hallsville; Marjorie Fogle. Gill; Alline Stauts, Grange Hall: Elwil-da Regon. Harleton: Barbara Grammer, Hallsville; Marjorie Hil- More than 400 Harrison County club members, parents and guests attended the annual 4-H Christmas party Thursday night at the Marshall RoUe Rink, at which awards for outstanding work during the past year were presented to outstanding 4-H youth.

i B. M. Browning, former county agent will become Smith County! agent Jan. 3, was master of ceremonies. A silk 4-H banner was presented to the Darco i.rls club, all of whose members were present, and another was; given to the Elysian Fields Club, only one member of which was absent, in the attendance contest, i A third banner, for 4-H health Improvement, was given to the Halls ville boys club.

1 Roy Marcom, vice president of the Marshall National Bank, presented Gold Star awards to Margie Fogle, member of the Marshall Street Scene Jteported too late to be newi; cluded Billy Ray Hayns of Marshall, a gold medal, an Kenneth Morgan of Hallsville, a silver medal, dairying: Billy Ray Haynes, soil conservation; JohnjD. Alcorn and Dwyane Alcorn, bo of Karnack, farm safety; Georjee Slaughter, Marshall, leadership; Allen Pope of Harleton, first, Bobby Moore of Marshall, sec and, Marshal Fant of Grange 1 all, third, and Ronald Fry and J. O. Craig, both of Marshall, fourth and fifth, poultry raising: William Huffman of Hallsville, meat animal; John D. Alcorn, crops, and Bobby Moore of Marshall, frozen foods.

Two Hollywood luminaries, Jqn Hall and Frances Langford, opera tors of the Four Leaf Clover Fleli. Santa Monica, made a short stop Wednesday at Harrison Couh-ty Memorial Airport when ralnjy weather' closed In cn them while. ry Wentwortlv, another co-worker, sent for assistance. The fire de-, rartment was called and the city's, 75-foot ladder truck was dispatched' StWPPMG DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS they were en route to Florida..