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IM) IM a bui Mt mi mm Wiw Bootmas iMVitaf wlwti If-nttlrt tt Um 40th ear No. 254 Press Texas, February 13, 1950 Press Sunday Tornadoes Kill 35 in Texas and Louisiana Coal Miners Ignore Orders Of Lewis and Federal Court Nothing Short Of Contract To Halt Strike Diggers Merely Fail To Report for Work On Monday Shift PITTSBURGH (AP) First reports from the soft coal fields Monday showed striking miners ignoring orders of a federal court and John L. Lewis that they return to work. There is strong indication that majority of the 370,000 idle diggers will remain on strike as whistles blow for early morning shifts. Overnight crews failed to report at four West Virginia mines employing 2,500 diggers.

Only two mines In western and central Pennsylvania had overnight shifts scheduled. Both pits, employing 1500 diggers, were closed tight. men just failed to show said one operator spokesman. Demanded Contract During the week-end, presidents of three United Mine locals in Pennsylvania, t.vo in West Virginia and Ohio and one in Illinois expressed this view: short of a contract will make the diggers produce coal again. Mines in those four states employ 250,000 of the 370,000 strikers.

Scattered comment from the rebellious rank and file backed up this sentiment. Lewis Wired Instructions Lewis wired district UMW officials to direct the 370,000 striking miners to their strike in compliance with a U. S. court order. The government fired a double- barrelled legal blast at the union in an effort to halt the crippling six-week-old contract no strike.

These swift moves came under the Taft-Hartley law: 1. The fact finding board said an immediate resumption of coal digging is to protect the national health and safety. Court Issues Order 2. President Truman asked for an injunction ordering the miners back to work. 3.

Federal District Judge Richmond B. Keech issued a 10-day temporary order for Lewis and his miners to resume digging coal. He also set a hearing for Feb. 20 to determine whether the directive should be continued for the full 80 days provided by the law. 4.

Keech signed an order directing Lewis and his union to drop four major demands in negotia- of statue. Hunt for Navy Missing Plane Goes By Land, Sea and Air Equipment Found Along Gulf Shore Ruled Not From Lost Corpus-Based Flying Boat CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) A combined land, sea and air search for a missing PBM-5 from the Corpus Christi Naval Air station will be renewed Monday at dawn, an NAS spokesman said Sunday night. Seventeen search planes, including five from Ellington plane field and a Coast Guard from Keesler field, Biloxi. covered an area extending from northeast of Galveston to Port Isabel. While Navy planes crisscrossed the Gulf, Air Force planes searched the beaches and a strip extending 30 miles inland.

Coast Guard jeeps were patrolling the beaches looking for wreckage. Although no leads were turned up during the day several articles were reported from various points and later discarded as not being from the missing plane. A helicopter was flown to Aransas Pass after a compass had been found near there but it wras discovered that the compass was not a part of equipment carried in the PBM type aircraft. The Sabine Coast Guard station found two oxygen tanks but Navy officials said a check disclosed the plane was not carrying oxygen tanks on its Friday flight. there is not much chance that the plane is still afloat, there still remains hope that we will be able to find the the spokesman said.

certainly not going to stop searching until every last hope is The plane carried rubber life rafts and individual life jackets. The Coast Guard cutter Iris reached the area of a reported oil slick but was unable to find anything in the vicinity. The Coast Guard cutter Nike and another unidentified cutter also were conducting a surface search of the area. Plane search Sunday lasted from dawn until 8 p. m.

and visibility in the area was An equal number of planes is expected to participate in the search Monday. Twisters Strike 20 Times, Injuring Nearly 200 and Destroying Much Property SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) Tornadoes battered northwest Louisiana, East Texas and Southern Arkansas Sunday, killing at least 35 persons. Twenty-eight were reported killed in Louisiana as the spinning winds crashed into the state from East Texas, W'here seven perished. 1 EL BAIL! DEL SOL Scenes like this will be common in Brownsville when Charro Days opens Thursday.

Crowds packed into the Chamber of Commerce patio Sunday afternoon for this Dance of the Sun preview. Charros and their ladies, young and old, joined in dancing the dances of old Mexico. Costumes were colorful and the exhibition was a testimony of the huge amount of work that has gone into preparations for Charro Days. (Star Staff Photo) Cold Front Due in Valley Temperature Drop to Low 40s Forecast Nation Pays Its Tribute To Lincoln By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pilgrimages to Springfield, 111., the home of Abraham Lincoln, marked the tribute to the 16th president on the 141st anniversary of his birth Sunday. In Washington, President Truman made an unheralded trip to the Lincoln memorial, on the bank of the Potomac river, to take part in ceremonies there.

He drove to the memorial with Mrs. Truman and tw'o aides and stood at attention as the aides carried a wrreath of gladioli up the long steps and placed it at the foot FUN AND LAUGHTER echoed the sentiments of many of Brownsville's residents Sunday afternoon as crowds pushed and shoved to take part in the Sun Dance. Charro Days officials, surprised by the huge turnout for this early showing of one of the many activities of the fiesta, predicted a big success for the event which opens a four-day run in Brownsville Sunday. (Star Staff Photo) tions with operators for a new contract. The order was requested by NLRB general counsel Robert N.

Denham. He acted at request of major operators who charged Lewis with unfair labor practices. To Meet Wednesday Keech directed Lewis to resume bargaining in good faith. Lewis immediately invited major operators to sit down with him Wednesday. They accepted.

The government acted as the all-out mines shutdown neared an emergency. Coal supplies are estimated at anywhere from one to three weeks. Layoffs in coal-using industries are past the 35.000 mark and are due to zoom higher if the strike continues. field generals relayed orders of the gruff union chieftain as he celebrated his 70th birthday. The only reports indicating compliance with orders came from areas which produce relatively small amounts of coal.

The government has indicated it will not seek a contempt citation if every striker back (Continued on Page Eight) Rotary Leader Visiting Valley Delegation Welcomes Hodgsons at Airport DONNA Rotary International President Percy Hodgson, of Pawtucket. R. and Mrs. Hodgson, arrived at Brownsville Sunday afternoon for an international meeting of Rotarians here at 6:30 p.m. Monday.

A delegation of Valley Rotarians met the president and his wife at Brownsville and took them to McAllen where they spent the night at the Casa de Palmas hotel. President Hodgson did not stop in Harlingen, local Rotary club by communism, in our nation I president Gene McCullough said threatened by intolerable ideolo- Sunday afternoon. George N. Craig, naUonal commander of the American Legion, led a Legion delegation to Springfield, where Lincoln is buried. The Legion makes an annual pilgrimage to Lincoln's tomb in Oak Ridge cemetery there.

Craig said example remains strong in w'orld haunted He added that of us who champion the cause of freedom today are subject to attacks and threats, as was Lincoln in his day." U. S. Canada Join In Army Maneuvers WHITEHORSE, Y. T. (Jfl The icy tundra around this little town is teaming with 5.200 armed men.

American and Canadian troops assembled here are ready to commence the biggest w'ar games ever played in the sub-Arctic regions of the American continent in mid-winter. The maneuvers, with the code name will be the first joint troop training exercises of their kind ever undertaken by the U. S. and Canada. A yarn manufacturer, Hodgson will be the main speaker at the barbecue and program arranged at the high school athletic field here.

Hodgson will speak at 8:30 p.m. Tickets for the barbecue and program are on sale in all Valley towns. The Hodgsons will leave the Valley by plane Tuesday morning. Flower Festival To Open This Afternoon at Donna DONNA Dedicated to Percy Hodgson, president of Rotary International. the sixth annual Texas Flower Festival opens a two- day run here Monday at 2:30 p.m.

on the theme of the fesUval, is considered the biggest and best flower show staged in the state of Texas by Donna Garden Club members. Exhibits and flower arrangements will be shown in Legion hall and the Donna building. Club members expect 4.000 persons to attend. Doors open at 2:30 p.m. Mon- until late Rotarians Galveston Fisherman Drowns in Channel GALVESTON iJPi Dale Pet- schelt.

22-year-old Galveston fisherman, was missing and presumed drowned in the. channel between Galveston and Pelican island late Sunday night. Petschelt and a companion, Sidney B. Webb; 35, were caught in the middle of the channel when a flash norther struck shortly after 7 p. m.

W'ebb told police that he attempted to rescue his companion after their skiff capsized but lost him some distance from shore. A coast guard picket boat had found no trace of Petschelt nor A cold front with plenty of punch in it is expected to make Valleyites bring out their coats Monday. According to estimates, the cold mass of air from the Pacific northwest will force temperatures down to the low before it leaves the Valley. Just to give the Valley plenty of warning, the weatherman says it probably will be cold Tuesday also. Maximum temperature is expected to be in the high Frost In Winter Garden The Laredo-Falfurrias areas in the Winter Garden will get temperatures in the upper 30 with light frost in the low areas expected.

Showers will preceed the entry of the cold front but they are expected to be too small to give 1 the farmer much relief. A forecast calls for cloudy skies and a colder temperature Monday with a few showers early Monday. Strong northerly winds are expected later Monday. Small craft warnings, hoisted i Saturday, will be kept up Monday and Tuesday according to the Coast Guard. Winds are expected to reach 30 to 35 miles per hour along the coast.

The Coast Guard also issued I a warning to fishermen to stay out of the bay. Two fishermen were picked up Sunday after having spent the night on the dredge dump off Port Isabel after their board was marooned by a low tide. Cold In Panhandle But the weather picture as gloomy as it looks, the weatherman said. Warmer weather can be expected no later than Wed- nesdav and perhaps a few heavy showers before the cold front loses its punch. Meanwhile, a cold front moved seven Nearly 100 were injured in Louisiana and nearly 100 in Texas.

Many were in critical or serious condition. Many homes and other buildings were demolished in both Louisiana and Texas. Arkansas reported much less property age and no casualties. The State Highway Patrol office in adjacent Bossier City said it knew' of 19 dead in Louisiana. The Shreveport Times accounted for nine other dead.

Five Women Killed Their combined figures have this breakdown near Castor, nine; Slack Air Force base at Shreveport, six; Forbin, five; Sligo, four; Grand Cane, two, and Hood's Quarter, on the outskirts of Shreveport, two. Texas twisters killed three women near the little saw'-mill town of Haslam: an 18-month-old boy and his father in a community southwest of Lufkin, a woman in the Jericho community near Haslam. and an elderly woman at Corley, in Northeast Texas. Strike 20 Times In all. the out of the collision of a mass of cold air with warm moist struck at least 20 times in less than 24 hours.

The storms whip-lashed Southeast, Central and Northeast Texas Saturday night and Sunday morning before ripping into Louisiana. The Highway Patrol said it have names or descriptions of the dead in its list. Near Smith, 69; his wife, 59; their granddaughter, Miss Elaine Smith, 18; Mrs. Smith's sister, Miss Celie Sullivan. 66: another granddaughter of the Smiths.

Miss Dottie Jo Knotts, if; a visitor in the Smith home, Prentice Little, 4, of Minden; Mrs. Leonard Burton, about 25; Velma Loud. Negro. five Airmen Die Slack Air Force airmen, one civilian, all names withheld by air force pending notification of next of kin. L.

Angle: his two sons, first names unknown; an unidentified Negro. unidentified Negroes, one about 60, the other about four. Grand unidenUfied Negro youth. Tw'o women killed at the Fellowship community, near Haslam, w'ere identified as Mrs. Laura Grayson and Mrs.

Will Eastridge. The house they were in was demolished as the twister roared in about noon. Five persons, relatives of Mrs. Grayson, w'ere injured. Mrs.

Claibume Mayfield was killed while w'orking in a field near Haslam. Her husband was critically injured. Car Crashes Pole Near Weslaco WESLACO It took a telephone pole and a palm tree to convince Ignacio Jaramillo of Weslaco Sunday night that it is not good to drive without lights. The car, with Wisconsin license plates, he was driving on Farm Road 8 8, six miles north of here, left the road, knocked dowm into the Panhandle. It apparently the and came to rest wasnj, severe, but snow fell at the paim.

according to Patrol- Kelley and Fred Amarillo Sunday night with the temperature at 33 degrees. The w-eather bureau said 3.6 inches of rain had fallen at Texarkana 1.87 at Austin. 1.59 at Dallas. 1.10 at Houston, 1.05 at Waco. 1.59 at Palestine, 1.61 at Lufkin and less than an inch at many points.

In Kansas and Nebraska, a near blizzard was rising and through- out the Midcontinent area there were reports of downpours, men Winford Shavers. Jaramillo, slightly injured, w'as lodged in jail under charges of driving while intoxicated, Kelley said. Economy Bloc In House May Face Dilemma Choice Between Hike Of 10 or 15 PerCent May Curb Activities AUSTIN (AP) Members of the House economy bloc may be forced this week to choose between an omnibus tax increase of 10 per cent or a boost of 15 per cent this group threatened to raise a point of order against the bill calling for a 10 per cent boost, the House leadership immediately countered by introducing a measure calling for an increase on oil, gas and sulphur of 15 per cent. The threatened point of order was on the technicality that only two copies of the 10 per cent tax bill were introduced, whereas the rules call for three copies. This was regarded as another slowdown effort by the anti-administration group, and It brought the prompt counter-measure.

Could Be Club It could no one would officially admit the administration leadership may use the 15 per cent tax increase measure as a club in expediting the business; the appropriating and raising of funds to operate state hospitals and special schools, and to provide building money. It appeared certain Sunday that there would be a showdown this week on the question of just which taxes, and high, would be utilized to help remove the stigma in the from the mental hospitals and schools for the mentally deficient. In Third Week The session goes into its third week Monday with first order of business in the House debate on a cigarette tax designed to pay for a long-range building program. Little organized opposition has appeared and it is favored by the administration. The House could, of course, vote to take up something else.

The Senate has no stricUy legislative business on its calendar. It has some accumulated appoint; ments to work on, but little else can be done there until the House grinds out a tax bill, Prominent Woman Found Murdered BUFFALO, N.Y. The body of Mrs. Marion B. Frisbee.

36, socially prominent wife of a Buffalo businessman, was found early Sunday, lying in an ice-encrusted ditch in a desolate section of the suburban town of Clarence. There was a bullet hole in her left temple. Medical Examiner James F. Benedict said there had been an obvious attempt at rape. He said he would issue a certificate of murder.

squalls, snow', rain. sleet and freezing Noted Pastor's Sermons To Appear in The Star THREE YOUNGSTERS, unidentified, take part in Sunday afternoon's preview showing of Charro Days. It was El Baile del Sol, or the Sun Dance, a four-hour demonstration of what activity will be like come Thursday. Crowds packed into the Chamber of Commerce patio, all dressed in brightly colored costumes, to swing their partners. (Star Staff Photo) day and remain open Monday night.

Valley will be special guests at the festival from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday. Tuesday the show' opens at 9 a.in. the skiff late Sunday night. An estimated 1,000 flower ar- -----------------------range ments will be shown, according to Mrs.

T. H. Boyce, general chairman of the festival. Trophies will be awarded individuals and garden clubs claiming the most blue ribbons. Booths, decorations, projects and displays, including miniature modernistic houses and churches completely landscaped, have been designed by Valley architects.

Charro Days Baile del Sol Attended by Huge Throng Former Slave Dies Of Storm Injuries HOUSTON, UP Ella Dodson, former Negro slave who was critically ill when a tornado destroyed her La Porte home Saturday died Sunday in a Houston hospital. Friends estimated her age at (from 97 to 101. BROWNSVILLE Charro Days was given a terrific preview here Sunday afternoon. Thousands of Brownsville resi- dents turned out in gaily bedecked costumes and danced the dances of the days of old. It was the El Baile del Sol, the first public preview of Charro Days for 1950.

And it was a sight never to be forgotten. Hundreds of color arrangements almost blinded the eyes of the spectators, with red and white predominating. Grady the Cow Has Strapping Big Son YUKON, Okla. a strapping 110-pound son for Grady the cow', who upset the wrhole country a year ago by leaping into a silo. The famed hereford, not half so jittery now', is doing fine.

I Grady is too. Last February, you recall. calf died almost immediately after birth. It was then she made the frenzied leap into a silo which became her prison for five days. One Dead, Seven Hurt In Texas City Crash GALVESTON, One man was killed instantly and seven others And dances! They danced them all.

Crowds jammed the patio of the Chamber of Commerce building here until there w'as hardly room for the dancers to swirl their partners. Charros and their ladies, from those barely able to wralk to those were injured, one critically, almost too old to dance the intricate steps of the old dances of Mexico, promenaded in all their fiesta finery. Called a field day for photographers it gave just about every(Continued on Page Two) in a City head-on crash at the Texas wye early Sunday morning. The dead man was Mike Peter VasQuez. 29.

a Houston auto mechanic. Critically injured in St. Man's infirmary is his brother, Martin Vasquez. Jones, Meet The by Peter Marshall, one of the most unusual Lenten features ever offered newspaper readers, will start in the Valley Morning Star, Monday, Feb. 20.

Peter Marshall, the beloved chaplain of the U. S. Senate, passed away recenUy at the age of 46. He had won a national reputation at an age when most clergymen are still unknown. Jones.

Meet the is a collection of the richest passages from Peter most vigorous sermons. There are no other sermons like Peter For there was no other man like Peter Marshall. Sen. Arthur Vandenberg says: Marshall, to me, wras the embodiment of Christian the personification of purposeful religion. I never knew' a more rugged character." The sermons in Mr.

Jones, Meet the were preached in historic New York Avenue Presbyterian church. They were addressed to the man Peter Marshall called the multitude of clerks and taxi drivers, housewives and butchers, motormen and the lonely girl in the hospital ward. PETER MARSHALL The sermons are the fundamental teachings of the Book applied specifically to the problems of today money-making, law-making, home-making, sex, politics..