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if 1 On the Inside Classified 20-23 Comics 16 Editorial 4 Obituary 14 Ridio-TV .20 Records Society Sports Theater World ...15 15 ....15 The Capital City Newspaper Since 1871 AUSTIN, TEXAS, TUESDAY- FEBRUARY 16, 1954 S3rd YEAR-173 24 PAGES PRICE 5c SLAPS STATE INSURANCE LAWS Amitu BETTS f' 1 I i jwww iii hi piw tit' i i nes Hem Judge Calls Statutes Black Mark va Sf" Jiter Him anger Parr Asks US Give Protection Found It 'TWAS QUITE A BLOW ALL THE WAY AROUND DALLAS, Feb. 16 (AP) The convalescent home patient asked an attendant for a drink here Monday, The attendant brought a pitcher of water and poured a long drink. The 69-year-old man sprayed his first mouthful across the room. "Gad!" he yelled. "That stuff is water!" In a bull's-eye throw, he hit the attendant across the face with the water pitcher.

Parkland Hospital aides said the attendant is recovering from a broken nose. The home inmate, they said. Is about the same. -r -i 1 1 V-17" i'iii lit, "ITfiOtT A I v.s4 imists Opt District Judge Charles O. Betts issued Tuesday a ringing denunciation of Texas insurance laws covering the operations of what he called "special privilege" compan-nies.

Unless these laws are changed to provide more safeguards for the public "they'll blow the top off the Capitol." said the 98th District Court judge. Betts called the laws he assaiied "a black mark on the state of Texas." He said he was referring to special statutes for such companies as Lloyd's, county mutuals and reciprocals. Betts estimated that liquidation proceedings are now in progress against "20 to 40" such companies. Many times these companies are "flat as a fritter" by the time their cases reach the courts or even come under the scrutiny of the attorney general's department, said the obviously nettled judge. Present laws for such companies, Betts went on, permit wild "promotion schemes" and in many instances "invite disaster" for policy holders and stock holders.

These statutes, he said, fail miserably to provide even minimum safeguards for the public. There is a great danger that the public will because of the failure of many of the special companies lose confidence in regular, solid companies. Betts warned. "I don't mean to say that all these special type companies are no good." Betts added. Many of them are operated conservatively and capably, but the law permits such dangerous speculation activities that honest operators find themselves in a position of "throwing good money after bad in an effort to save their companies," Betts said.

Betts spoke out after issuing a temporary injunction against two El Paso insurance firms United Lloyd's and United World Life Insurance Company operated by (Continued on Page 14, Col. 3) AUSTRIA RUSSIA'S InS olicifation The Austin Optimist Club has been refused a city solicitation permit for the sponsorship of the "Frankie Carle Revue" as. a means of raising money for its youth welfare fund. Therefusal came from the recently-created City Solicitation Board. The FIRE RUINS TV SETS These charred remains of uncrated television set bases tell the story of Tuesday morning's costly ire at the Television Center, 4330 Lamar Boulevard.

Little damage was done to the modern building, but merchandise loss ran into high figures. Lost were brand new TV sets and radios. plus" repair equipment and spare parts. Assistant Fire Chief R. H.

Dickerson said cause of the blaze which broke out soon after 7 a. m. had not been determined. Dickerson listed owner of the building as C. Ben Hibbetts and the occupant as Gary Hanson.

The fire started in the storeroom, where damage was heaviest. (Neal Douglass Photo by Bill SAN DIEGO. Feb. 16 UP South Texas political boss George B. Parr charged Tuesday that the Texas Rangers had threat ened to kill hin and asked the Federal government for protection.

Parr, on the eve of his appear ance before the Duval county grand jury, went to U. S. District Judge James B. Allred's court in Corpus Christi. There he filed a petition charging that the Rangers threatened to kill him.

He said the threats violated his constitutional rights and asked Judge Allred for a temporary in-junction to keep the Rangers from carrying out their threats. He spe cifically named Ranger Capt. A.Y, Allee and Ranger Joe Bridge. According to the petition, the Rangers violated Parr's rights un der the 14th Amendment by threatening to kill him if anything hap- pens to any Rangers stationed Duval county. Parr charged that this threat "in short is one to take plaintiff's life, without any investigation or trial.

with defendants acting as judge. jury and Allee and Bridge have been indicted by the Duval grand jury on charges of assault to murder Parr. Parr was summoned Monday to go before the grand jury Wednesday, presumably to tell about financial operations in the Benavides school district. Parr will testify before the same group which Attorney General John Ben Shepperd said had a ma. jority of members indebted to Parr personally, financially or political.

Iy. He asked first that the jury be dismissed and later asked the jurors not to look into the Benavides situation. The first request hasn't been acted upon and the jury apparently is disregarding the second. Meanwhile, Shepperd was personally questioning "at least 15" persons, whose names he wouldn't divulge, as he carried the state's investigation into a second week. The attorney general went to Du val county last week, vowing he was taking the "first step" toward ending "boss rule in South Texas.

District Attorney Raeburn Norris said the grand jury subpoenaed Parr to appear at 4 p.m. Wednesday, and three other men D.C Chapa, Eusebio Carrillo and Monroe W. Wiedeker to appear at other times. Chapa, former tax assessor collector in Duval county, was one of 11 Parr supporters who resigned from public office in the county last week. Some observers said he was second only to Parr, the "Duk of Duval" himself, in importance in the tight political organization.

FORMALLY REJECTS INDEPENDENCE IDEA Cut refusal its belief that the pro Fair, Cooler US Weather Bureau forecast for Austin and Central Texas: Fair and cooler Tuesday night. Mild temperatures Wednesday with clouds increasing. Wednesday's temperature range, 44-72 degrees. High Tuesday, 68 degrees. More data on Page 9.

Clear Skies, Sun for Now, Clouds Later Sunshine and clearing skies Tues day followed cloudy weather Monday, night and Tuesday morning resulting in .20 inch of rain and was due to continue until Wednesday when clouds are again expected to increase. That was the forecast for Austin and Central Texas, the weather, man said Tuesday. The fast moving cool front which swept into Austin early Tuesday to drop the temperature to a low of 54 degrees at 8 a. m. had passed into the Gulf of Mexico at 10:30 a.

m. after bringing showers to Corpus Christi and other coastal communities. Hoye Dunham, chief weather ob server, announced tnat tne crop report issued at 11 a. m. shows that Texas is beginning to feel the effects of continued dry weather, even in East Texas, where more rain has fallen so far than else where, the surface moisture was beginnig to dry out.

Austin, which has received only 1.26 inches of rain since the first of the year, already showed a deficiency of 2.8 inches for the first iv wppIjs nf thp vpar. Bid BERLIN (AP) Austria formally rejected Tuesday Russia's proposal to give the little nation "full independence" while reserving the right to keep occupation troops there indefinitely. Austria's Foreign Minister Leopold Figl told the Big Four foreign ministers conference acceptance of the Soviet proposals would deprive his country of the most essential aim of an independence treaty the withdrawal of foreign troops. "The Austrian federal govern board gave as its reasons for the ceeds of the show were not to go "principally" to charity, that control of the funds raised by the revue was "not in the hands of responsible people," and that the club had not presented "peculiar and particular reasons ior me granting the permit The city's solicitation ordinance. in those cases where less than 75 per cent of the gross amount to be raised does NOT go to charity or welfare, says that 'peculiar ana particular" reasons for the granting of a permit shall be made.

The Optimist proposal called for the club to receive 25 per cent of the gross proceeds of the Carle show with the balance going to the Carle orchestra and a.Dailas booking agency. J. David Nichols. The board said its disapproval of the permit should not be interpreted as a reflection on the local Optimist organization. In the same bi-monthly meeting which saw the Optimist request refused, the board returned a Disabled American Veterans "for more information." The DAV request asked permission to hold a Safety Seal Stamp sale.

0 At the same meeting the board approved issuance of the following permits: Ben Hur Shrine, for the holding of a Shrine-sponsored circus May 19 through May 22. The proceeds go to a crippled children's fund. Ebenezer Baptist Church, for the sponsorship of a concert in late March of the Ellis Dixon Singers. Proceeds are ticketed for the church's general building fund. The Church of the Holy Trinity, for the solicitation of businessmen for contributions to a building fund.

Beta Sigma Phi, which is sponsoring a benefit show by the Austin Civic Theater March 5. Proceeds go to Gonzales Warm Springs Founda- tion. RiteS Held TodaV Of rtD. bdltV IlUll 1 rUKt WUK1H, feD. IB m- ment has authorized me to state officially that it can, therefore not agree to any change of the present treaty draft," Figl added.

A special meeting of the Aus- trian cabinet this morning had outlined the Austrian stand and instructiops had been sent to u- Figl took the floor to voice his KING BACK? Jungmichers Stepping Oui Of Grid Job By MARK BATTERSON The Statesman Sports Editor Buddy Jungmichel, one of the top assistant coaches for the Longhorn football team, is stepping out of gridiron warfare and into the in- aurant.e Austin Statesman learned that a highly possible replacement is J. T. King, the assistant coach Aug. 1. He'll continue working with the squad throughout spring training, after which he'll help pre pare strategy for the 1954 season.

After that, he'll become associated with Jimmie Connolly here in Aus- tin. Carney Cites Possibility Of A-Stalemate NEWPORT. R.I. Adm. Bobert B.

Carney said today the United States must be ready regardless of whether another war is fought with nuclear bombs or bamboo spears. "I cannot, nor can anyone else, fnreract iho' hinpnrint fn'r an nitil in West Berlin's- Allied Control! recently muu um Hi- Authority Building. He had comeiterests. He's been working with SAN DIEGO. Feb.

16 OV-State Attorney General John Ben Shep-perd Tuesday said "we found what we wanted to find" in the records of Duvall County. Sheppard would say no more. State Auditor C. H. Cavness and seven of his assistants who have been checking the records of the county and of the Benavides and San Diego Independent School Districts of the county for days have returned to Austin.

The district courtroom, where the records have been stacked, was cleared, cleaned up and varnished for the first time in the week since Shepperd came here to lead personally an attack on what he called "boss rule" in Duval County. The political boss of the county, George B. Parr, has been summoned to appear Wednesday before the Duval County grand jury, which is investigating use of public school funds in the Benavides district. Shepperd filed a motion in court to return the records which were impounded last week, with certain exceptions. The exceptions were certain of-! ficial bonds, oaths and conceled warrants contained in three manila envelopes.

The envelopes were ispalpri anrt Shprmrrd asked that they remain sealed until ordered opened by the court in the pres ence of the court, of the attorney general and of the district clerk. He asked that the contents of the envelopes be preserved "in order that justice may be subserved." He said all of the records "have been inspected by the state auditor, the attorney general, the comptroller of public accounts and certain federal officers and photostatic copies thereof have been made." They were ordered impounded on Feb. 10 by Judge Arthur Klein of Brownsville, sitting on the bench in the absence of the regular district judge here, C. Wood-row Laughlin. Shepperd told Duval County citizens Monday night they should "grasp the opportunity to restore and maintain honesty in public office." Collision Kills Five Elexans GREENVILLE.

Tex. A car carrying seven children to school collided with a train here today, killing the driver and four of the children. The three other children were injured seriously. The dead are Luois Gipson, 52, a Greenville negro, and these grade school children: Sandra Jean Gip son, Rodney Gayle Beatty, Robbie rr.i- 1 InKn UTun! i me injureu ic uim t.ojuc Dee Armon Beatty and Ward, James Russell Gipson. Police said Gipson was driving the children to school, as he did every morning.

As he drove onto the railroad crossing near the school grounds, his 1948 sedan was hit broadside by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Bluebonnet passenger trsir, southbound from Kansas 1 City and running about an hour 'late. south of Austin. The Rotanan Wm there directly from luncheon in thejthe University of Texas football Russian Embassy with Soviet For-i team on a temporary basis during eign Minister V. M. Molotov.

spring training. rne treaty accepiaDie io Austria, Actually, jungmicneis resisna- said, is the one that the fourjtion doesn't become effective until maiP chnwrinwn nf the nations nnwibassy here from Thomas J. Need Wiedeker was- identified by Nor- 4n iripnlneiral conflict" said Car-lham ris only as rancher, and Carrillo Red-Led Mob us 0ffice NEW DELHI iff) A violent Corn- Library in the heart of Calcutta tonight as an outgrowth of a teach- ers strike there, smashing windows: and setting fire to the library, ac-, cording to telephone reports' Reports to the United States Em Of New YOrK, consulate put) Hie affairs officer in Calcutta, said police fired tear gas in a battle to Control the demonstrators. The mob surged into the U.S. Informa- Street destroying books and pam- nhlptS and Smashing DadlOCked -r oalu- These reports said mere were rveeanam action in aismissing both American and native employ of the U.S.

Library said the mob: pulled books from the library! Selves and set them on fire. HFRF FEB 22 1 ney. the Navv's top officer and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in an address prepared for the Naval War College. strengtn ot nussia. inciuainewnati he said was the unobtrusive emer-- opnro nf thp Rnvipt Tininn "a the I i occupation powers have been working on for seven years.

Forty-seven of the 52 articles had been approved and the Russians had amendments for the remaining! five before the Berlin conference, The West announced it would, arrpnt thpsp five Soviet amend-! mnte nA miAu cinn tha "f'1 treaty Jnursaay at p.m. itsenin time). Molotov wriggled out of that and presented new terms which would D. X. Bible, athletic director foriAn ch nH tanio Harriawav second strongest naval power in.no injuries among American per-j terms of the number of ships injSonnel the offices as a result oi permit the Soviet army, and theirlce na tne rest oi tne stau win nther fnreien troons.

to remain nnimiss Jungmichel after he departs. commission, second only to tne United States. fho TTnivPT-citv pvnlainpH TupcHav V. mat jungmicnei nas oeen scouting around in tne private Dusmess world for several months. He added that he.

Head Coach can be worked out As far as Longhorn football for (Continued on Page 14, Col. 5) As some other officials of wnen lne slluauon lne area Austrian soil until German unifi-i as for Kings becoming a mem-Navy and Army have done. Car-'became tense- cation is accomplished. He already iber of the coaching staff again, nev nntpri a rvrssihilitv that another i B. R.

Mitter. an Indian employe had torpedoed German unity. Bible said, only that "we hope that neral services for State Represent- Wriiie Austin and Central Texas ative H. A. (Salty) Hull, 51.

were experienced mild temperatures at scheduled here Tuesday at 3:30 dawn Tuesday, freezing weather P- rn. jWas reported in the Panhandle and Hull, in his seventh term as a South Plains area. Dalhart register-state representative, died Monday a low of 24 degrees, Amarillo after a long illness. jhad 32 and Lubbock, 31. war rnniri hp withoiit'usp of atomic weapons He said- "What' sort of war do we havP in mind? If we are honest with ourselves, we will acknowledge that there are big wars, little wars; atomic wars and pernaps nonatomic wars.

What can we expect? "If the answer is that is one thing. Were the criterion to be 'no atoms!" we are militarily right back where we started. "It is entirely conceivable that we might str a limited use of atomic weapons. We might see. llwe might se pashas so far 'been rHamita anri hoc.

i I 37 Start Centex Tour To Boost Stock Show is a former member of the Bena vides school board. Carrillo was one of three men who last week was granted immunity from prosecution for self -incriminating testi-mony. The jury Monday questioned fiva witnesses: Pedro Trevino. a San Diego lum ber dealer; Jesus Garza, former member of the Benavides school board; B. F.

Donald, cashier of Alice's Texas State Bank; P. J. Green, Benavides 'school board (Continued on Page 14, Col. 4) Death Claims Chas. Phinney BROWNWOOD, Feb.

16 (M The father of several prominent Texans, Charles D. Phinney, died here Monday night at the age of 78. Phinney survivors include his widow and three well-known sons. The sons are Major General Carl L. Phinney, Dallas lawyer and com mander of the Texas National Guard's 36th Division: Robert L.

Phinney, Austin, collector of internal revenue for the Southern district of Texas, and Temple Phinney, Dallas architect. A daughter, Mrs. Maude Dillon, who holds a supervisory position in the Dallas school system, also survives. Phinney was a retired Brown-wood building contractor. He was born in Nova Scotia.

Funeral services were to be held Tuesday afternoon in Brownwood's First Methodist Church, with the Rev V. H. Dickenson of the Highland Park Methodist Church (Dallas) and the Rev, Herbert Smith of Brownwood officiating. Graveside services will be heid in Austin's Oakwood Cemetery Wednesday at 11 a. m.

Other survivors include a broth-er, E. H. Phinney of Lakeland. Fla, and two sisters. -Mrs.

Ed Andrews of Kyle and Mrs. Aaron McDaniel of Norman, Okla. Phinney came to Texss at th age of 10. lived in Lulmg and later in Marble Falls. He moved ta Austin in 1914 and then t9 Brownwood in 1919.

His first wife. Mrs. LU'Je Phinney, died in 1918. The years were rolled back byitbe only chin whiskers, by the 37 business men Tuesday as they way. making the one-day booster teriological warfare, a nuclearff Pep rallies for the Austin Live-stalemate with both sides refrain- stock Show in the cities and towns ing for fear of retaliation.

south of here. "Confronted with great uncer-; The stock show boosters, all tainty in this respect, I see no al-. members of the Austin and West ternative but to hedge our strate-l Aostin Rotary Clubs, were a hA IS i fr rl It remained for the Austrian: foreign minister to make the dead (Continued on Page 14. Col. 4) Wu i The show boosters will make stops af Buda where people Degan congregating at 6 a.

m. to greet the touring Rotarians, at Kyle. San Marcos, New Braunfels, Seguin, i 1 i ..1. I oonzaies, ijuung aim ijuuivudi Harry Peterson, chief wrangler of the stock show's pep squad, said the group would meet with the Seguin Rotary Club at noon and furnish the entertainment program. Of course, Peterson said, the Seguin Rotarians will get a good indoctrination on the Austin Livestock Show.

Peterson apparently meant that because he took along Dave Shanks, farm and ranch editor of the American-Statesman, to do some spieling in behalf of the show and Central Texas agriculture in general. Peterson said that in addition to the scheduled stops, the Rotarians would stop wherever they found more than two people together. "We will give 'em literature and tell not to miss the Greater 1954 Austin Livestock Show," he said. At the scheduled slops, which (Continued on Page 14, Col. 3) it I to 1 Sldl LCU UUl UU ou-uot c-.

i the Feb. 22 event. Hodgson was gic bets, ready to rush into the, gay teen-age future, but also prepared to meet. climbed- aboard a yista-domed anri rely on. the methods of the Kerrville bus in front of the Austin recent past.

Hotel at 8:30 a. m. "The next war might start wiuv All wore stock show hat and an aggressive act of sufficient arm bands: others were attired magnitude to warrant prompt, ten-gallon hats, boots and brightly large-scale retaliation. Then would colored shirts. Max Starcke.

gen-follow a period when both sides eral manager of the LCRA, showed would pick up tiie pieces, dust off up in complete western garb, even the atomic residue, and make a re-to the spurs that went jingle-estimate of the situation which jingle as he stomped toward the might well result in both sides! bus. settling down to a struggle chiefly A sound truck preceded the show involving the old conventional boosters' bus and right behind the weapons. I bus as it sped toward Buda, the "Regardless of how the war isjfirst stop, was a car with Jesse fought, of one thing I am certain: James and All The Boys and Jay It will end on the ground, politi-i Hodgson, who will emcee the ral-cally and economically even if not lies at all the stopping points for bv frontal assault. Guerrilla bands, OFF TO BOOST STOCK SHOW Members of Austin's two Rotary Clubs were in a gay mood when they left Tuesday morning for a series of pep rallies boosting the Austin Live- show boosters stopped at Seguin at noon to meet with the Rotary Club of that city and to spread the word about the stock show. The Rotarians took along with them a sound truck, a hill billy band and an emcee, replete in Western dress and chin whiskers.

(Neal Douglass Photo.) armed with oamooo spears, may i in cnaracier ior me uy. stalk each other across the re-jwas he dressed for a busy day at maining ashes. But and of this Ija dude ranch but he was sport-(Continued on Page 14, Col. 1) ing a fine cluster of chin whiskers. stock Show in towns and cities.