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HOME EDITION WEATHER 1 HE VERNON RECORD Pftrtly cloudy warmer to- nlKht and tomorrow. Temperature Wednesday: high low 59, OL. XX, XD. 276 Means Associated Press VERNON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1915 (A-P) Mean? Associated Press PRICE FIVE CENTS MMY MAY ABANDON POINT SYSTEM SOON Hoi car! Jap, I wre pii ank Soldiers Escape Injury In Jap Typhoon 48 Nips Reported Killed as Winds of 100 Miles Per Hour Sweep Pianes Are Destroyed.

Tokyo, Sept. 20. oldiers stationed in areas hit by ap latest heavy typhoon es- sped serious injury, a check di.s- iosed today but the Japaneses ne Ministry said incomplete reports showed at least 48 -inese killed. he 100-miles-an-hour winds I -i numeroT! ecu; air- and barracks on the home island of Kyushu, in the center of the storm which also lashed at I Shikoku and Honshu islands in 1 its two-day rampage. Communi- cations with Kyushu and Shikoku still were cut today.

The Home Ministry also reported that more than 2,000 homes I v.ere destroyed and uncounted! thousands more were damaged by the storm. Crops were reported; badly damaged. In Tokyo, outside the principal damage zone, winds were strong enough to blow down tents at i headquarters of the First Cavalry Division. Capt. John Stallings of Corpus Christi, Texas, who was at Kanoya when the storm hit the afternoon of Sept.

17, said that for three I hours the Americans sat within a relatively sturdy former Japanese Navy barracks while the winds i turned airplanes on their backs, tossed four-pound pieces of tiling In the air, and rolled halls of sheet metal like tumbleweeds across the airfield. Stallings said three former Japanese barracks and a moss- hal! taken over by American occupation forces, were demolished. The airfield revetments, he said, were filled with wreckage Japanese planes, which had been left out on the open field. American soldiers tried to moor planes by tying them to said Stallings. saw one big transport flipped over on its back and the truck which it was tied flipped over with it, landing in the ruddle.

One pilot told me he tried to keep a transport headed into the wind by gunning the mo- tHis wind indicator readied 1 miles per hour and then the punt saw he win against the wind and jumped out. Another pilot was in a plane upon it was lifted three feet off the ground." Stallings said field officers told i'lm that only about two of the wrecked planes were repairable. 1 oKh FOR TKi Jerry Wrinn, X. a heelehair upon his arrhal in New Vork from Miami. I tor treatment of muscular dystrophy disease that killed Lou Gehrig.

With him Is iiis mother, '1rs I rink Wrinn. THOUSANDS OF PACIFIC VF.TS ES ROUTE HOME -OCCUPATION ARMY OF 4110,000 SOW SEEN Offers Resign Action Follows Heated Exchange Between Board Schwellenbacb. Fokyo, Sept. 20. cT ships of Admiral fighting Third Fleet steamed for home today carrying several thousand Navy men due for discharge Gem i MacArthur's headquarters disclosed that Anns occupation forces will increase 000 before the predicted slash to 200,000 takes place.

There are approximately 130. 000 American soldiers in Japan. State Department expressions of surprise and concern at predictions of three days ago on the size of the occupation forces drew another terse from Mac Arthur himself today. His staff officers pointed out, however, that his announcement of future reductions had clearly a probable of 200,000 six months hence. It did not say that, this would be 1 he maximum landed in the meantime, they emphasized.

1'roops Four Into Japan. Troops will continue to pour into Japan through September, October. November and December until about 400,000 have arrived I by the end of the year, they re- ported. Japanese demobilization mean- while is proceeding so smoothly that approximately three-fourths the homeland army has been disarmed and discharged in half the allotted time, MacArthur's headquarters announced. The 400.000 maximum.

spokesmen said, does not inc.tide Marine units in Navy occupation zones, nor fleet personnel. In Washington, Acting id Dear. Achoson re- Stevenson Ready To Appoint Successor to Judge Rice Aust.n, Sept. 20, Gov. Coke R.

Stevenson said today he is prepared immediately to appoint a successor to Chief Justice Ben Rice of the Waco Civil Appeals Court hen Judge Rice resigns his State judgeship or qualifies as Federal District Judge of West asmngton, Sept. 20. Dr. jotrgo W. Taylor today offered resignation as chairman of 1 War Labor Board as Labor 8 re a Sei" ....11 nbach sought hold the boo together by inuing it as a lent agency.

Schwellenbach prepared a dec- aration of policy following a con- erence with the board enlivened heated exchanges over WLB re status under his direction. Labor Board, War Commission and U. S. 'i'Wment Service were shifted to Labor Department by pnf Truman last Tuesday. ho Labor Secretary, it was un- planned to permit the to function autonomously the past, reserving to the right to enter a critical for conciliation purposes niy when decisive action seemed in the Detroit strikes the KeLsey-Hayt Wheel Con Meeting Is which affected at i rarm bureau Meeting Ford Motor Company.

"ay lor declined to comment on ouereci resignation, saying the White House would have niake any announcement. Seventeen marked sharply that the I'm ted JStat.es Government, not the oc- jcupntion forces undei 1 is determining American policy tow ard Japan. MacArthurs staff officers pointed out that thus far the occupation has been without incident and that elimination of what MacAr: thur called unknown quantity of the initial operation" permitted new planning for the fu- 1 lure. Woman Suspect Nabbed Another war-crimes suspect the only woman on original wanted list meanwhile was taken into custody by the U. S.

Kighth Army today. Tin woman, Lily Abegg, a naturalized German known also to Tokyo and Kobe pre-war foreign colonies as SybilJe Abe, was allegedly linked with Tokyo radio propaganda. The Tokyo newspaper Mainieln reported three more Japanese on MacArthur's suspect list had been arrested. They were Col. Akira Nagahama, former commander ol i gendarmerie in the Philippines; Shigeru Osanai, former civilian! official at a Japanese prisoner of war camp; and Sgt.

Seichi zo) Miura, guard at the camp All three were accused of brutalities. Demobilization of the Japanese has continued at the rate of 000 men daily, Mac Arthur reported. There were 2,253,000 Japanese under arm- in the home islands Aug. 15. and approximately 1,645.

000 had been demobilized by Sept only 608,000 to go by the Oct. 15 disarmament deadline. Five Million To Profit Under New Tax-Cut Proposa! Compromise Plan Would Scale Down Levy Assessed All Individuals as Well as Corporations in S. Washington. Sept 20, A compromise tax-cutting plan that would wipe out income levies foi some persons began to take form today.

It also would scale down lax bills for all individual- as well as corporat ions. This development came amid mixed congressional reaction to a proposal by the committee on postwar tax policy for an ultimau slash of more than 50 per cent in present tax collections. The policy committee, a private study group, called for immediate repeal of the three per cent tax on individual incomes and elimination of the wartime excess profits tax on dbrporations The compromise reported nucha discussion wirhin the Congress's own tax staff would provide: 1 Retention of the "normal'' tax but with a 1016 exemption of $500 for the taxpayer and each person dependent on him. The present $500 flat exemption gives; the taxpayer no eiedit foi dependents The new plan would apply the same exemptions for the normal tax is now used for the surtax and would relieve, about 5.000,000 low-income families from further federal income taxes. It would have no effect on single persons without de- i pendents.

But for a married marij children who now pavs net income of 2 000 would reduce that, bill' Rubber Plants Are TRAVEL PAY Also Affected by ss Refinerv Strikes BEING URGED with two $45 on the plan Ite zero. 2. An duetion probably would give eac cut in addition the re- ii all individual taxes, bt 3 0 per cent. This person a flat to the new svs- I I lis I HI VI I lie name of Nelson Kingsland, ot Lake nbove, enteretl the 1 1 Siunnel I it New for the runt der ot his uili1 when the prose ention named 'Miss as other tor whose love it Haimt'd I pcs his jind hnried her in a Miss Kinysland, lias i to as a nit Isas fopt poliri did nol know F.pes was until aftrr iiis (leattt Cel! Waits for Recovered To jo Kighth Army Now lias Suspected Wat Criminals Behind Bars on Honshu. torn ol exemptions for the normal tax.

Congru: donai tax experts estimateci the change in exemptions would taxi by and tied a 10 per cent the board" slash would cut the burdens an othei 1 200 1 10 000 3. Reduction, if not repeal, of the corpora ion excels prillisi axes. The compromise would 1 bel ween the pohry eommittfes proposal and a plan by Rep. Knutson, Repuhli- (an. to reduce each individual's taxes by 2U jier eent turai pii (J hi I soon as inflicted Robe rt er ot the d.

I. Arm The 'on trai r.ow! ha oals in out skit Te jo lu re A Nor! he I peeled in this "okoha ilonsh eri rep Ai Conference on Peace Aims Seen Emissary May Be Sen! to Japan To Talk With About Policies. as bv Federal he Sen- County School Busses To Be inspected Here Saturday The annual inspection of Wilbarger school buses by State Highway Patrol officers will be conducted here Saturday at 1.1:00 a. nr County Superin tendent, Mrs, Keefe li. Rowianf announced.

The inspection buses nomination judge was confirmed ate Technically he will not cease to be a State judge until he resigns or takes the oath as a Federal jurist. His tern Waco Civ 1947. year as. a safetv made measure as Chief Appeals astice expires the Jan Slated for Friday Night Yw meeting of the Wilbarger Countv Farm Bureau Federation which was to have been held last Friday night has been postponed i until Fridas night of this week IlMdlTs at 8:30 in fra" as- mbb room Dallas, Sept. 20.

W-Braniff the County will add two northbound; Local lights for increased service for Dallas, Amarillo and Colorado VI, Austin. Sept. 20 award of the Bronze Star medal was made o-rday to Mr- Bailey Ragsdale for her husband. Lieutenant Ragsdale formerly a member of the Texas House of Representatives from Crockett. Lieutenant Ragsdale, an Infantrs officer with the 91.st.

Division, vas killed in action 3,. 1941 near Velletri, Jtal.v Col P. Houston, Camp Swift commander, presented the medal. Washington, Sept. 20.

A special emissary may soon from Washington to confei with ru ral Douglas MacArfluir on enforcanent long-range pr ace controls Japan. This was learned today as it appeared that various in policy were cropping up b( tween what Washington contemplates in the way ol a touch peace for Japan and what the Allied command headquarters in the islands actually are accomplishing. A lack of Liaison between top policy controls in Washington and the General's operations in Japan is blamed by some top official who are therefore considering dis- ri patching a high ranking emissary to Japan to discus- the -ouatu-e A new policy directive on terna- the Potsdam declaration for the industrial disarmament of Japan is reported to have gone to MacArthur recently. I lien, believe the is going to him into loin res1 gang Asked ahr the roundup did have a then Genera problem up eminent all the key on all feetural jail. 1 mder ijecf local the difficult i Texas Coastal Concerns Are at Standstill Following Widespread Work Stoppages Expected.

hr- in Is fkm refmetaes, three rubbei and affiliated nulus to the Port Aithur, Texas, employ ing a total ol more: 13,000 persons, were closed and aiaU. trou- ere spreading down the coast to 11. u- ton where unions announced walkout votes in seven oil plants. W'ilh the Pure Oil Company Nederland plant near Port thur already closed, the Texas Company refinery, employing was down gradually. and the Gull Oil Refinery, a empii a addit aaial was production today.

Uhes del lei si ii County plants hieh I Fin'd, pi esident of he two Pott Arthur Oil Worker Intei national Lnion Locals said would (dose today included hi Goodrich and Firestone Synthetic rubber plants, the Neche. Huiane Products Company and the asphalt roof ms i UK rv Strike staled Tin el'tsing would strip opera in all i joi retnif i in the county except at the Atlantic od wdieie a strike vote is I ser. duied today, and at the Mac i uni Company, here a Vote to be held this Andrus, meniber the! district oil wankers strategy' com )) prf'dicied that by the end the week all ma (or i ie- around Heaumont, I lote ton and Corpus Chu would lo-- () A Kmghl. of the oil Worker International ilion, aid union demands, include 52 hoots of pay I or it 10 hour work eek Officials of Local 227 of the joWH at Houston that mem hers of he loca pi tad on; cm ployes of Hon ton oil plants, voted overwhelmingly to strike, 'tuny Plants Plant invop. ed included tin Smetaii Refining Sin I i lair Rubbei.

I ne um ioi I Sulk Plant, Sinelau Pipe Line Corn o.o iiv ntral peti oh un and (e neral Amen can Terminal Also in the I ton an 4 the ouir which bold? i with the Shell Oil or poration. Pipe Iane panv, ialena Park Refuiei and the Te-ie. Pioduelion Department will hold strike vote tomrrow In It he als niie. an od arid oline shortagf was i-xpeetod Houston area Administration I.eadcrs onfidcnt New Measure ss in Both Mou ses Little Opjmsilion Slioun. Will a Drastic Slash in Discharge Score By Nov.

1 Seen CJs With tiO Points Will Be Demobilized Winter Will See System Abandoned, Says Marshall. VS a du nut munst rader major batti less pay today I hi test It i home for Senaten Ai a ite. as sure a se lownnce.s worker, i job. McClellan the Senate expeeit to Sept. 20 in Ad a dei who lost two on the Senate job lad etl e-onfidence will wan a third con molves paying the way war workers McClellan, Demoni set up the fight by to strike from the mea id ion granting travel up to $2CK) to send these iack home or to a new 1 a bin on.

Sept t.1 C.en. leorr.c C.Ma ridiali toh 1 congressi tha it tise poi tern of dion taf so lidie bo by Wnilt The ny Sem hi. Of Sii iff i advised meeting tat the 80 potr prest Us t' ent til 1 sebi ovvi scoro to points Oy )ct. 1 mdt 60 onitji byNovL "We ITsuch hitIn late id ter ill i- ser ben and the 1 all willhe nt WS stem th two lotit Uil' reporter gat la i ed for wh be its las! day of de on the ii-ncv a me. "It vioiild permit travel pay mrmt.s without any showing ol need.

irrespective of the high wages a Worker may have been Debate so far has shown little opposition to the proposal bevond McClellan's Hiere was crie hing opposition to two major reeom- bv President Truman 1. A vote ol 1 1 to re fee led his proposal that the federal Jd government supplement state job lienefd; to a.s.stire a top of a Week in stale. 2, vote of aU ttj 23 favored re turning to the tie-- activities of the I idled tale. I inplovrofad Service. Phe.se were taken over by tfie gov eminent early in the war and Mr Truman had a ked that they be retained In Federal hand I until duly 1017.

I'hose I vide- i the fit I In) port ant defeats on i trato! Hill for the Pt riman 1 a I ion W. E. Hughes Is Killed Thursday Wilbarger ounty Man Dies When He Falls Into Well on Hummel arm delly and I ormi In fl Mi i tin a ref i nihti He Japane ot the rat ho nee of ti Plans sun plan Japan ei reverse ans for II Marshall 'mobilinoti i apidly ha ndt tin-d I that the sudden tarder had nullified a huge nii New. uler, he explained, numerous I Army aned Congre that was going forw in! P- 01 He said no re disci flare wa the ate the Army am plans tor a po Any such po? Congress, can middle next Marshall pr ooo during Septem I in lat Ion hip bet ween of men from War Iiepartmcnt war army war plan, he told wait until yea dieted that otdd ht t'elf i a 1 1 at a rate of I liH ft it -SOU. Illlt aid, 1er proti nr (U to Hi) ide I p.

Hughe of at II oc while wor rger aid time I Mae Arti the Ja ela red, lust Ur put 7.500 Yanks Due In States Today group con iso- most of 1 Itr i the Tojo Pearl Harbor cabinet, Mot ef ban 7,500 Ainerica ser a man colonel of some repule. are schedulet i to a i I dose Laurel, former puppet pre a- at i ast coast por! ron dent of Philippine Lt. 1 urope today aboaif 12 0 Mashaharu ol the- Bataan dop- ex-Philippine; Ships and Army ue ut.1’ include issador dor a and a Al Bf ton (A boatd 11 ie choice group tains, and tP ok inelud 03 1 Uartf a 61 ii0 in Weather Almost Spoils Atomic Bomb Attack Pa nigh! IM I. I MI.KI Vernon Encampment No 2 independent Order of Pel lows, will meet tonight at the Odd Had to confer the Rule degree on qualified date Braniff, night. president, announced nmn He urges aU farmers to be present if at all possible.

yf AKI HI I Tokyo. Sept. 20. Yoshida, new Japanese Foreign Minister, called on General Arthur at supreme headquarter 'in the Dai I chi building today to pg hi re'-peet- I Pa, Bf AZI KXTINfd ISHLD The Vernon Fire 1 inactn. cAtinguiihed a gras- fire a- 20O.P eadhf i almost Another targr a bandorted; a 1 weal ho would ping the bomb vi and enemy figid ban's B-29 ro the was an firs? atomic bom! Hiroshima He wa arriving from Jon the three Supe attempted to fly to Washington -elee ten was niiil drop y.

Then flak traded Bea mate target er vet on the ion ora of the men last night i rt res ses which Ktn top recoid nu iton Victory) 1,001 nig the Post Dota lantry Division; 1 i fleadqiiartei Ha mored Dr.ision Ar tillery Hal talion with inedit William and Mary Victory i 1 1 troops including Headquarters fdoup. IMTtl. d'ldkfh Fighter Stpnuhon-. and lOtfi Medic-'d Supj-ly Plataxm i At News (Aboard the i iemerd' of the Intaniry In e-iorr In Lantry ginaaO L-f Pat Infanti'. Bat lalion; 340fh Infantry Regi! I Atioard the Leopold Damrosch) 101st Dental Pcs the tic ment; 1101s! Army piotai Unit; 1300th Arrrr- Postal rut 3260th, 3201-V 32fi2nd Kngmeet Power lane Maird Del at hment i uro ant I morning, Ion the I I the Hind tied been empi by Mr.

Ru months The fa a I when Mr 1 biglie climb from the I Witnesses said the Mr floghes fell well, striking ins conerete curl), The fendei son ambulance and coroner a S' ene of the ir, it turned verdict death due to hea taified wlx-n the the well ie" the on pan at i approximate! killed almo nek Thursdn a tig in a t(j both I come fort-pean theater, la Pacific, had vi-g- hen the hut iat i ge vva point The the iter that key sonnel, iuch a technical set see among the long us who would be Itse fitsd. Marshall th ii Ini farm to communit Mr 1 tughe as a lai an hare I 1 for several dent occurred attempted to ell on a ropf broke and back into the head on the point Vit toe 'dee rion took am, the gelier i tal i ore tea i sal on sciare) look and a point the i aid wauid take Will eoi oner re of accidental 7 Texas Marines Among POW Freed Sept 20 Marines with Lt Col James Commander at Wake 11 0 io. Branch 1'dafiii 3 a ddrofl, Hok- fr II into I I empi Moto sers la 1g he Horn 1 hat States Can Problems rsep formed mission, natural A i ru tru or has er 'e on mt eff( A CHINA I Chungking, Sept 20. Chinese Central Government has i requested the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration io allot $945.000.000 for Bismarck Street here Wednesday relief. at 5.

p. m. MW! Texaf Maxey Democi the Pa; Dallas. Sept. 20.

sis Dr R. Hawkins, foniuu s-uix-rmtr-nderit of it Hue. dies vs i I be inaugurated as of Ros Teacher College at Alpini Sept 20 Oct 1 R. Thom a Dallas 1 he placed on an chairman of the board of regents 1 Rep. Wright of Stare Teachers.

Colleges, said so fexas has in-d'aae last night in-ralla finn Chamber of ic.ome-. di ne held the i regular meeting in Alpine. i PC 1 old Handle Kansas authority for I tie ion. Oarage and handling Ural gas at with and no Federal laws st died, Independent ion Federal Pc at la gas industr opoi nt si was cet dings yesterday es La ii the Association, speaking i oil and gas prm'luction ci of the organization. The statement declared tie PC persists Os I control, directly or indir pbfiseK covered by Stare i lion, its natural I should be Iranderred to fa te Commerce Comm, redefined by new leg: of th principle cannot be ural gas and maintain a Tlie rnen m.

i II rv 'i eVIUS. Sg A. Holna son Mr 1 Sn Oh, Curar' li-Sted guide); Chief Cook Charley Ci mdr.i, Cleveland Cpl. Raymond Dunca die; pl. Alun cpi BUe-oufr, A Stei.pc le; di el Miller, Ah a rado; Pie Willie Kenton.

Os Idc Al i sr be, H. Breckef il Alan, de Harry J. Spring. Pf. c.

Luri it Got dm a Pot-e pf, s. Jack Hern, Antonio. owlin, Leonard Pi Pe tenter, D- ul las, Pf e- 's Ve fm ble, Fnsco; Pvt Err trv p-, 1 Roger Do rman, incerti ot ie the wife A. thi pro pie HI I HOUsfO; WU II Sept 20, sB -A com- Ve -diga taon of giant mg ot con vie is will Sheriffs ti on tt in tt Tu com v. Ni regu ntion at Polk, said i he In or to nat health: ltia I I tas PAID i id fines of $10 e- d-er lid a fine of here nesuay.