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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1949 TuB Leased Wlra Report of The Associated Press (AP) The United Press (UP) International News Service (INS) Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Add roved. $7937L2(5 Mass Pfcdc Red War time '4 Christmas Spirit Spreads Across El Paso Again But Many Wondering If Santa Claus Wl Visit Them This Year Building Will Start Next Month Sabotag By SCOTT THURBSR Plots Bared 'Twas the week before And scurrying crowds jjf El Washington. (AP) A Sen ate committee has sworn tes Pasoans jammed downtown department stores Saturday, timony that even during on those traditional last-min World War II, when Russia ute snopping sprees, arms was America's ally, the Com By ART XEraSON A $7,371,206 rental housing project for Fort Bliss, largest in the history of El Paso area, has been given final approval and work will begin about Jan. 10.

Two newly-oragnized local corporations, working as a Joint venture, were approved loaded with gaily wrapped munist "high was A packages plotting how to sabotage this country's production arsenals in most neighborhoods, il you chanced to walk through the night and observe, you might have seen in event of war anytime be tween the two nations. small groups inside the houses hap John J. Huber of Mount Vernon, pily throwing tinsel, placing lights and other ornaments on Yule trees N. who said he had served as an undercover 'agent for the TBI, uy uie-war uepartment as lessees, under a 75-year agreement, to build and. operate Van Home Park on Fred Wilson Road opposite the of varying sizes lighted wreaths and already-decorated trees peeked gave the testimony.

Taken behind closed doors last September, it was out at you from windows any place municipal airport. you happened to look almost. made public Saturday night by Sen ator McCarran (D-Nev.) The 800-unit project, exDected to Downtown at night, you could see The Nevada lawmaker is chair house about 3500 military personnel and dependents, will be con the same crowds, minus the pack id ii llllM iimi man or a- Senate judiciary sub ages, mingling in San Jacinto Plaza, taking in the colorful displays, ad committee studying legislation to structed by Morgan and Leavell and Ponder, Inc. First 100 units are scheduled for completion bar subversive aliens. miring the majestic, beautifully decorated tree the sound of Huber told the subcommittee he by July, 1950, with all units to be joined the Communist Party in carols and chimes permeated the chill night air.

occupied in less than 18 months. Former Mayor Dan Ponder re The Spirit of Christmas the spirit 1937 at the request of the FBI. The request came, Huber added, after he told the FBI that some of giving could be seen, or felt, all around. cently returned to El Paso from Albuquerque, N. where final approval was obtained from the Federal Housing Administration.

of his fellow workers in the old But the story had another side. In some parts of town the same WPA were Communist Party mem bers. I 'i Arrangements were corripleted yellowish lights as always cast their HUDer said ne remained a mem Saturday for $6,632,800 in local dull glow through windows and doors, and the rooms inside were in ber of the party "until the middle financing, the State National Bank and El Paso National Bank dividing part of 1947." PRE-HOUDAY FARE Only a social security card is needed, according td the sign the door to the Salvation Army kitchen, at 608 NorW Stanton Street, for an unfortunate to hold off hunger, when down on his or her luck. The Salvation Army can use help in providing a good Christmas meal for those who find themselves without home of funds on that holy day. (Photo by Gerlach.) The witness testified the Com much the same barren pattern as usual Christmas decorations were conspicuous by their absence.

the mortgage guaranteed by the munist Party of the United States FHA. is the most dangerous and vicious While many El Paso citizens were The approval was the second organization" ever to exist in this given under the Federal Wherry happily going" about preparing for a joyous Christmas, others many country and that it takes its orders direct from Moscow. He added: Bill, and was a tribute to the efforts of Major Gen. John L. Homer, commanding officer at Fort Bliss, to others were wondering if they were to have any kind df Christmas at all.

and, if so, where it was going "The Communist Party will stop at no lengths to achieve its avowed relieve the desperate housing situa to come from. tion for military personnel. purpose of overthrowing our exist Asks More Donations To Chest WHO NEEDS WHAT? Under the Wherry Bill, no single ing Government by force or ofher- GotKam's Water Supply Down Despite Friday's 'Dry Up' New York. (AP) Official figures showed Saturday that New York's big one-day dry-up was successful. But the water level in the metropolis' parched reservoirs continued to go down.

Apparently only-heavy rains or lots of melting snow would reverse the dismal trend of steadily falling water storage And neither El Paso's Social Service exchange Continued on Page 10, Column 6) mortgage may be approved lor more than $5,000,000. For that rea had stme answers to these two nupstions: ves. a lot of the city son. Ponder said, it was necessary to divide the contract between two co-operating firms. under-privileged young and old were going to have something to celebrate Christmas Day, and much The companies have taken a 75- Hungarians Jail Another U.S.

Citizen was in sight. SUN QUEEN-ELECT ARRIVES J. Francis Morgan, president of the Sun Carnival Association, presented a bouquet of roses to Sun Queen-Elect Marianne Lowenfield, upon her arrival Saturday morning, at Ed Anderson Airport. Miss Lowenfield is a student at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. Gerlach.) 1 (FOR STORY.

PICTURES SEE PAGE" 30.) year lease on about 125 acres of of the wherewithal wouia come from those same El Pasoans who City officials left up in the air military land, ollowmg approval jammed the downtown stores. the question of whether tney. wouia of their proposal and ma accepiea Mrs. Alice carry, unuer wu repeat the "Dry Friday" experiment. -A final check showed that Fri guidance the exchange operates, summed up the situation as a three Cop In Every Bar During Yule Proposed Budapest (AP) Hungarian au fold problem; 1.

Finding out nu day's drive cut water consumption by 8,000,000 New Yorkers to eallons in the" 24 hours. thorities have jailed Israel Jacob- WHAT, son, director of the Hungarian di 2. Getting -each, case, assignee 4, Ov tr- I 1 an individual agency, avoiding The total was 176,000,000 gallons less than the dally average last week, 81,000,000 less than the con vision pf the, American Joint Dis tribution Committee, S. Itfnister riimlications. and -A W.D Judg Nathaniel There will be 248 two-bedroom and 248 three-bedroom units in two-story quadraplexes, 116 two-bedroom duplexes and 188 three-bed-(Continued on Page 4, Coiumn 1) Earthquake Rock Chile.

Argentina Buenos Aires. (UP) A series of 3., Letting tne poienuair vnnw iust what sifts will do the sumption on Thursday, ana 000,000 under that used last October before the conservation 1 night. If was the second arrest of an American here in a month. most good nd seeing that Tnrict -nnssible eood is done. started.

American officials have been de Item No. 3 seemed to loom xne Residents skipped shaves and Walter Dunn Howe, 79, judge of the 34th District Court since Dec, 1918. died Saturday a local hospital after a long Illness. He had entered the hospital Tuesday. The -widely-known jurist was one of 'three ranking district judges in Texas, along with Judge Ballard Coldwell of the 65th District Court, nied permission to see Jacobson and largest.

a telescoped dishwashing chores, and did all sorts of other "The -oeople oi nave the charges h.Te not been dis closed. time and again proved their gen-ornsitv Mrs. Barry said. thing o- achieve this -appointed in 1915. The AJDC is relief Despite -Friday's effort, the have shown us that, paricula ly at strong earthquakes rocked tha Washington.

(UP) The Methodist Church Saturday night urged authorities everywhere to prevent a Christmas season oat-break of murder and violence by stationing police in all bars and nightclubs. This measure. It said, "would save several hundreds of lives between Dec. 24 and Jan. 2.

The "policeman in every saloon" proposal was made by Dr. Caradine H. Hooton, executive secretary of the Board of Temperance of the Methodist Church." No Decision On Civil Service Case amount of water in storage Satur ii Judge Howe was born in Bloom-in gt on, June 16, 1870. He was educated tin -the -public schools, In day morning was 88,315,000,000 gal this time of the year, they are imbued with the spirit of giving. world's southernmost tip Tierra Del Fuego, the land of fire from lons, a drop of.

95,000,000 in 24 "But we first must let them anow hours. dawn until noon Saturday. ALBERT SCHWARTZ what is needed, and how much of This total represented 34.9 per Walls tumbled in the Chilean cent of capacity and compared with it, and just how and where to contribute." CONTACT. EXCHANGE 127,624,000,000, or 50.4 per on city of Punta Arenas, on Magellan Straits, and minor damage was dona the same, date last year. The numerous agencies operating Stephen J.

Carney, city water at Ushuaia, capital of the Argentine portion of Tierra Del Fuego and a former penal colony. commissioner, did not disclose any future plans. However, the city in the exchange may be contacted separately, or any offerings or inquiries can be made through Mrs. Barry in the exchange 903 Mills Building, phone 2-2142. has indicated rationing, lowering The strongest shock, at 2:06 a.

The Communist government outlawed immigration to Israel the first of the despite Israeli protests, and later Imprisoned a group, of Hungarian Zionist leaders on charges of assisting Jews to get out of this country, illegally. Jacobson, 37, has headed the AJDC office here since September, 1947. He was arrested Thursday upon returning to Hungary from Austria, after a leave in the United States. U. S.

Legation sources said the Hungarians so far have refused to permit them to visit another American, Robert A. Vogeler, 38, of New York, who was arrested Nov. 18 on charges of spying and sabotage. The government announced Nov. 22 that Vogeler, an assistant vice-president- of the International Telephone and Telegraph and a (Continued on page 10, column 7) wrecked seismograph needles at the of the water pressure or other -x- $X- aTjaBVBSJaBaaamwaaSBaB-amTaa9 drastic measures may be necessary.

Argentine air force's national meteorological service station here. Here's Mrs. Barry's breakdown Members of El Paso's C'vil Serv Meanwhile, the State- Water Other temblors were recorded at ice Commission adjourned without reaching a decision Saturday, after Power and Control Commission said in Albany it had warned the city "in the strongest language of impending water shortage." 3:58, 5:30, 7:20 and 8:57 a. m. The final one, at wrecked the walls of the boys high school in Puntas Arenas and toppled part more than two hours of considering evidence against four, police officers.

of the Jugoslav Community's club in the same city. diana University, and -Boston -University Law School. He turned to law after, an earlier ambition to be a' newspaper reporter, and soon after being admitted to the bar, in 1892, he came to El Paso from Knoxville, to begin the. practice of law. On June 1, 1898, he married Miss Marie Hobson Shelton, one of five beautiful daughters of the late Mr.

and Mrs. E. A. Shelton, early 1 Paso pioneer family. The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1948.

He had joined his uncle, the late Judge Frank E. Hunter, and served briefly as justice of the peace, United States commissioner and district attorney. His selection as district judge first came from the local bar group. Judge Dan Jackson had given his resignation, effective Jan. 1, 1917, but he left the bench earlier; and the bar selected Judge Howe.

His appointment was made by Gov. James Ferguson and he had been re-electe continuously: A powerful advocate of civic reform. Judge Howe in 1923 launched an attack on. the proposal. of Gov.

Pat M. Neff to do away with the county grand jury system. Calling the grand jury the "safety valve of Walter T. Telegraph and telephone lines be said another meeting will be called for Monday, at a time to be fixed tween Punta Arenas and Santiago, the Chilean capital, were reported JUDGE HOWE disrupted indefinitely. El Paso's small businessmen were appealed to Saturday in an effort to obtain the $29,000 needed to meet the Community Chest qquota.

To date $260,027 has been subscribed out of $289,703 sought. Two thousand letters, appealing for funds, were sent to businessmen in the city asking that they send their contribution to the chest office in the First National Bank Building before the year's end. "The small businessmen suave lagged behind in their contributions this year," Albert Schwartz, a leader in the 1949 drive, said, "but it is through no fault of theirs. We just have not been able to get enough volunteer workers to canvass the shops and stores. Every day we get calls from men and women who have told us they were waiting for somebody to pick up their donation to the chest." El Paso conducted its campaign without outside help this year, saving an estimated $10,000 in campaign fees.

"We have never asked for a dollar that was not stretched to the limit to meet the need of El Paso's unfortunates," Schwartz said. "We ask, at Christmas time, that those of you who are supporting the chest for next year look into your hearts and give us the help we need and need badly." Checks made out to El Paso Community Chest should be addressed to the executive offices at 1429 El Paso National Bank Building. by agreement of members. No meeting plac5 was settled upon Satur day. "It appears likely that sr-me con Chavez Backs Brother For Governor clusion will be reached Monday, Ponsford said.

"Our regular commission meeting is scheduled for 7 p. m. Monday in the City HaU. Ground-Breaking Scheduled Today Clergymen of many faiths will join with civic leaders at 3 p. m.

Sunday for the ground-breaking ceremonies of the juvenile detention home in Ascarate Park. U. S. District Judge R. E.

Thom-ason and District Judge D. E. Mul-cahy will give talks during a program that will include music by a Texas Coast Gets Heavy Rain Br ASSOCIATED PRESS Torrential rains flooded Beaumont streets and yards Saturday, and several homes were struck by lightning. Water spread from curb to curb in the streets and spilled over into lawns in almost every section of the city. A falling electric line plunged a section of the business district into gloom around 1 p.

but service was restored two hours later. Rainfall measured 3.81 inches from 6 a. m. to 4 p. -m.

and was still though not as heavily, after that hour. Fog shrouded Houston and Galveston in the late afternoon and rain fell at Houston, Lufkin and Beaumont. If we have a decision to announce. we will' have the officers attend that meeting." The commission considered sum Washington. (UP) n.

Dennis on just what is needed, and for at the many agencies: The Good Shepherd Home in Ysleta, caring for 41 girls between the ages of 13 and 17, needs money with which to pay for uniform gabardine, and other items such as shoes, socks, handkerchiefs, toothpaste, hand lotion, soap, cold cream, talcum powder, combs, sheets and pillow cases. The 51 girls and 24 boys (ages 3 to -14) at- the Sacred Heart Orphanage, 237 Tobin Place, don't require much for a happier Christmas. The girls could use sweaters, the boys need some T-shirts and some playground equipment. At St Margaret's Orphanage, 8433 Valdespino Drive, the 11 boys and 16 girls (ages 4 to 13) need underwear, plus summer and winter, pajamas. Blankets are the principal need at the San Juan Orphanage, '415 North Glenwood Drive.

Nineeen girls between 2 and 14 years old are cared for there. The foregoing, and the following Catholic agencies are under the auspices of the Catholic Welfare Association, 1101 East San Antonio Street. Donors are requested contact Miss Amada Lancaster at 3-6542. The following, all under the CWA. need" candy, fruit, peanuts, popcorn, small miscellaneous gifts, and "all the clothing available." Guadalupano Day Nursery, 616 South Virginia Street, for 110 children, 3 to 6 years old; Sacred Heart Kindergarten, 710 South Oregon Street, for 130 children.

4 to (Continued en Page 6, Column 1) maries of the evidence, and briefs on the law of pinball machines, submitted by attorneys for the officers. Named in charges, of sup our system of law enforcement," (Continued on Page 1, Column 1) pressing gambling enforcement, are Police Chief W. Woolverton, As sistant Chief H. S. Bernhardt, De tectives Capt.

Joe Stowe and Detec Chavez, (D. NM) Saturday night endorsed his brother for the New Mexico governorship and declared war on "the leeches and barnacles" in the capital of his home state. His brother' is David Chaves, Jr, now U. S. district judge in Puerto Rico.

The senator said Progressiva Democrats in New Mexico could find suitable candidates and that his brother "is one, of them." "I thought I had made my position clear on next year's gubernatorial race when I demanded a house-cleaning, but there remains considerable specula tion, the senator tive C- B. Fisher. The charges were Jiled with the commission by'Aldermen A. A. Gill, Anion Carter Presented Plaque Fort Worth.

(AP) Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth publisher has received a silver plaque from the Associated Press Managing Editors Association for his "boundless hospitality." The association held its annual national meeting at Fort Worth last month. During the meeting, hundreds' of managing editors from over the nation were Hospital Ward Honors Jester Jules Carlin and E. W. Kayser, Jr.

Fort Bliss band. Ted Andress. will preside as master of ceremonies. Dr. L.

L. Evans will open the program with "a prayer. The Rev. L. L.

Gaynor will give the invocation and Dr. F. S. Fierman will give the benediction. County Judge Victor B.

Gilbert will lift the first shovelful of dirt on the project he long has sponsored. Boy and Girl Scouts will direct traffic through one main gate of Ascarate Park before and after the cremony. One room of the detention home will be equipped and maintained by Voiture 605 of the Society of 40 and 8, a veterans organization. A. Dodson, chef de gaer of the society, is selecting a committee to complete plans for the, room.

Alderman Carroll Smith, who had joined the others in demanding that. Mayor Dan' Duke take action against the officers, refused to join Burma Recognizes China RediPegime Rangoon, Burma. (UP) Burma Saturday recognized the Chinese Communist government, first country, outside the Soviet bloc to do so. Burma's recognition of the Peking regime was conveyed by telegram to Chou En-lai, prime minister and foreign minister of the Peking regime. in filing a complaint Four choices are before the com Lnfkin, Texas.

(AP) A four-bed ward in Lufkin's $1,000,000 Memorial Hospital has been furnished in memory of the late Gov. Beauford Jester, it was' announced Saturday. The furnishings were donated by four close East Texas friends of the late governor C. L. Dupuy.

Ernest L. Kurth, John Redditt and Arthur Temple, Jr. guests at a variety of entertain mission in considering the evidence New In donesia President Inaugurated Jogjakarta. (INS) Dr. Achmed Soekamo was sworn in Saturday as the first president of the United States of Indonesia a vast new nation comprising scores of tropical islands and 77.000.000 people.

The leader, bitter struggle for Indonesian independent told a cheering I am the servant of the people, not their master." Soekamo said: "As the constitution demands. I will serve God and the people. Sovereignty for Indonesia is the beginning, not the end of our history. "We must work as we have never worked before. With solid unity we must give prosperity to Indonesia and foreigners to restore our economic stability and heal the wound caused by war.

God give us peace." The inaugural took place in the new state's capital of Jogjakarta. Crossing Crash Fatal To Couple Odessa. Texas. (AP) Two Mona-hans residents were killed instantly late Saturday when the car in which they were riding collided with a Texas and Pacific diesel-powered freight train. Dead were James Emory Alexander.

26. and Mrs. Gene Robinson. 52. The accident occurred one mile west of Monahans on Highway 80.

OK BOND ISSUES Port Arthar. Texas. (UP) Voters here, by a margin of 4-1, Saturday approved three water and sewer bond issues totaling $5,381,000. ments given by the Fort Worth (Continued on Page 7, Column 1) and briefs. They may clear, sus adiu XXI tt Bvaiciucuit, To put an end to rumors of deals on my part.

I promise tha Democrats of New Mexico that the progressive and liberal elements of the party will have a candidate next year. I expect to be actively supporting that candidate." Star-Telegram, Carter, its publisher, and other executives of the newspaper. pend, demote or discharge any or all of the four. New Cotion Mark etis Needed JOroiodxAfciPe Told' Governor's Son Bags Deer Austin. (UP) Gov.

Allan Shivers By JOE PARRISH Tlaaas Staff Writer Las Crnees, N. M. A hope that came home Saturday night empty-handed from, a deer hunt, but not so his 9-year-old son, Shary, who went along "for fun." Shary bagged himself an eight-point deer on the one-day outing. New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and California. Also to studied are differences in the cotton and methods of growing and harvesting from those of high rainfall areas.

Equipment installed in the laboratory includes four types of seed cotton cleaners, a Government-type drier and, two-stand gin with lint-flue cleaner, and a standard density press for baling. For tests of cleaning machinery, the Acala cotton will be used, and several types of lint cleaners will be Arrangements have been completed whereby New Mexico A will furnish the cotton needed for the tests. year's crop" he said. "Farmers could go on adjusting their output downward to -'close completely this 'gap between' supply and demand, but I for one believe we want and need a strong, vigorous cotton industry in this country. Therefore, I say-we should do our to find larger markets-and that.

the key to larger markets lies, for now. at least, in export trade," he added. But exports may drop from the 1948-49 season, Anderson "Foreign cotton production probably will be greater, with consumption down "Output of synthetic fibers is also expected to increase. Other nations will drive Anderson was the main speaker at ceremonies which dedicated the Department of Agriculture's first branch cotton ginning experimental laboratory, located just off the campus. A branch of the main laboratory at Stoneville, the State College branch will devote itself to the study of improving ginning methods in the irrigated cotton districts.

Other speakers" included Omer assistant administrator. Agricultural Research Administration, Department of Agriculture; Horace Hayden, executive vice-president. National Cotton Ginners Association; John I. Thompson, of the Production and Marketing Ad ahead in efforts to become more self-sufficient and everytime the pound and corresponding currencies are devalued, the price of our cotton faces a new handicap in world trade," he said, i But there are opportunities for expanded cotton exports, he told his audience. To bring world per capita consumption up to pre-war ratios would require an additional 5,000,000 bales, he said.

The United Kingdom, Japan, China, Indonesia, France, Spain and Allied Zones of Germany and Austria offer potentially larger markets, he said. investigations at the new laboratory will concentrate on ginning problems of the region including ministration, Department of Agriculture; and Harold A Young, president of the National Cotton Council of America, 5 Anderson stressed the fact that the United States is producing cotton at a far faster rate than it can sell it He pointed out that, with the 1949 bumper crop of more than 16,000,000 bales, plus last year's surplus, "we will nave more than 21,000,000 bales to find a place for this marketing year. Our mills are expected to use about 8,000,000 bales and well be able to export some 4,500,000 bales. 'This win leave us with 8,000,000 or 9,000,000 bales on our hands next August. And to this we'll have to add next 1 the new-established cotton laboratory at New Mexico A would do for the ginning industry what science has done for cotton in the field was expressed by Sen.

Clinton P. Anderson in an address at dedication ceremonies here Saturday. "If we want to gain back the markets, we have lost at home and abroad, we must seek to parallel in the treatment of cotton at the gin what science and industry have achieved for it in the field, he said. OPEN NEW BRIDGE Memphis, Tenn. (AP) The new four-lane Memphis and Arkansas highway across the Mississippi River opened formally Saturday when a parade rolled across it in rain and sleet The $13,600,000 project opened for business after 11 years of planning and more than four years of actual construction work..