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he ernon aily ecord VOL 169 (AP) Means Associated Press YKKNOX, TEXAS, SATTRDY, MAY 9 1951 EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS i Gigantic Red Drive Gaining Momentum Olney Tornado Kills Mother of Vernon Resident More Than 100 Persons Injured in Disaster; Damage Will Be High. mother of a Vernon resident was killed Friday afternoon when a savage tornado caused the death of two persons at Olney. Texas. Mr, and Mrs. T.

Temple were killed in their home in the west part of Olney. Mrs. Temple was the mother of Jack Coats of Vernon. The tornado struck Olney ,30 miles south (if Wichita Falls, about 3 p. rn.

Friday. Chief of Police John Wilkins said he saw the storm approaching and sounded the fire alarm, lie said: was a funnel in front of a big cloud." The number of injured had been estimated at more than 100. The police chief homes were nado. The tornado west, and cut yards wide Ihrotigh Three business block heavily. The buildings said at destroyed st ruck a pa least bv to 100 toi from the about 200 the town were hit demolished included the Perkins-Timberlake dry goods store and the Rotary Building.

Trees were uprooted and automobiles were rolled over and over. First report of the tornado was given by Mrs. H. K. Gore.

She said: "They are still bringing in the In Austin, the office reports that all state disaster relief organizations were alerted as was the Red Cross. The adjutant general, K. L. Berry, ordered Battery of the 645th Armored Field Artillery Battalion of the Texas National Guard to disaster relief duty at Olney. The guard unit is stationed there.

Highway patrol units also were ordered to Olney. Reports Friday afternoon of a tornado hitting Antelope were false, a check revealed. Arms Embargo Is Voted Against Red China by UN SKNATOR1AL 111 Tom ConnalJ.v Chairman Son. Richard It. sell center, and Xlexander Wiley (R-Wisc.) confer just before the joint Nmate Service-Foreign Relations Committee went into closed session in Washington to vote on whether to try to force (itneral Omar Bradley to answer questions on his personal conversations with President Truman on dismissal.

(NF. Telephoto). Sawyer and Nine Others Facing Jail The New York, May IS. The United Nations Assembly today voted an arms embargo against Communist China in an effort to cut off strategic materials reaching the Reds from the free world. Most countries outside the Communist sphere already have halted shipments to the Peiping Regime, but sponsors of the embargo measure lnped it would I state Plug loopholes and shut off shipments entirely.

It. was also intended as another moral judgment the Chinese Reds. Russia's Jacob A. Malik and! Wichita Falls, May 18. representatives here of the four; Carolyn Ftheredge 16-year-old Soviet satellite countries contest-1 brown baired beauty from Nocona led the legality of the crowned queen of the 1951 acton and thus clearly indicated National Wheat Harvest Festival they would refuse to comply.

'us1; been expected. i Tho wheat festival, which ends The decision is significant for i Saturday, was held despite 1) the Wheat Festival Queen Crowned Washington, May IS U. Court of Appeals today served notice on Secretary of Commerce Sawyer and nine others that they will bo sent to jail for contempt unless they comply with its orders in litigation over control of American President Fines, l.td. The court said it would enter an iese of command order giving Sawyer and the )1ltn (0 consider my Short Tries to Explain Another Truman "Boner" President Mean Exactly What He Said About Ouster of Mac. Washington, May 18 1 he White House saut todav Truman first considcred firmg of Gen Douglas MacArthur last Augu.st hen he wrote a eontro versial letter to he of Foreign Wars.

Joseph Sho! told i Mr Truman had this incident in mind lien he said yesterdav that had considcred MacArthui de missal from tune to time toi abolit a car. Short talked wtth Mr. Truman to obtain a more exact timewhen Mi Trunmn first considcred re lieving MacArthur of lus Fai Fast command Short said it was after, and before, Mr. Truman named Mai Arthui as commander in Oie Nations forces that ho began to eonsider the ap point ment of a new genei al that post. Prompt od Stateinent Tho reporters' questions were prompted by as.sei ion in New York last night that he was that Mr Ti man had asserted had lelt sueh dissatisfaction with my ex as to cause reliel for a 8 Persons Known Killed in Pennsylvania Train Crash- 60 Others Reported Injured No Inductions For June Here Officials of local selective service board 131 Friday announced some good news for their registrants.

There will be no induction nor physical examination calls for the month of June. The June draft quota is 521. It's apparently due to the small quota that board 131 escaped an induction call. Vernon Woman Injured In Accident Friday Night A Vernon woman was injured WOUjtj in an automobile accident near Paradise Creek south of town around 9:30 p. m.

Friday when the car in which she was ridin overturned. The woman, Mrs. R. L. King, was taken to a local hospital.

X-Rays were being taken to determine the extent of her injuries. Mr. King was not injured. Reports of the accident said the Kings were going south on the highway and were slowing down to go through the overflowing water from Paradise Creek. The water was lapping over the highway.

Another car, apparently not noticing the Kings were slowing down, plowed into the rear of the King car, causing it to overturn. The driver was only slightly injured. two reasons: It represents the first time the U. N. has attempted to apply economic sanctions as a weapon to stop aggression; it may open the way at a later stage for more severe measures such as a naval blockade.

The heart ot the resolution is a paragraph calling upon U. N. members and non-members to embargo shipment arms, ammunition, and implements of war, atomic energy materials, pelro- letim, transportation materials of strategic value, and items useful in the production of arms, ammunition and implements of It would apply to areas under either Peiping or North Korean control. Although decisions of the Assembly are recommendations only and are member fact there was little wheat this year and (2) there much chance of harvesting any during the festival. rains last night in the area around Wichita Falls made it.

even less likely any wheat would be brought in during the festival. In 19Hi L. 1). West of Olney brought a first load of the season in as early as May 8. Pat Henderson, 19, was selected as the duchess from Wichita Falls to accompany the festival; queen on a free trip to 1 lolly- wood.

Miss Ftheredge was selected from a group of 26 young ladies i from towns in the Wichita section. A colorful show in the Memorial Auditorium preceded others five days in which to comply with its decree. The court said: they have not complied as in the order (they) must' submit themselves for commit- ment, in civil contempt until they do comply." Sawyer and eight othei Govern-1 ment officials and attorneys carl ier had been cited by the court on contempt charges for failure to do-: liver possession" of 92 per cent of the voting stock of American President Lines to R. Stanley Dollar and his associates. The tenth person involved in the proceedings is George 1 Killion, president of the big steamship company, Killion is former of tfie Democratic National Commit tee.

Rainfall Totals 5.75 Inches Here not binding, virtually all of the queen, have declared thev! comply with the measure as a moral obligation. The So-; viet countries, of course, were among those who made no such undertaking. Malik charged the embargo would and continue the Texas Synod Closes Annual Convention Victoria, May 18. Texas Synod of the United Lutheran Church closed its annual convention here yesterday after voting to establish a student foundation at the University of Texas. The Synod has a foundation at Texas The Rev.

Philip II. Wahlberg of Corpus Christi was elected Student Foundation Committee- stalled Richard Schneider as missionary to the Garland, Texas, parish. The Rev. J. M.

Schedier of Victoria was renamed editor ol the official Synod publication. Traffic Cases Dot Justice Court Docket A large California trucking firm has paid the fines of six ot the drivers who were nabbed here for overloading, Justice of Peace C. Shepherd disclosed Friday. The check as for $204. A Childress man was fined $34 on an overloading charge while a Davidson.

man was fined $19 for reckless driving, a Wichita Falls man fined $10 for noi having an operator's license and a Sheppard Field boy was fined $10 i for driving too fast for road ditions. Justice of the Peace George Robinson found money on hand Friday when he returned from a brief vacation to Dallas. A Pueblo, man had left Vernon wiser but $73 poorer on being fined on charges of overloading and for not having a railroad commission per- I mit. A local man also paid $10 for a speeding charge. Russians Suggest Talks on Peace London, May 18 -Informed diplomats in London said today Russia has informally suggested to the United States that there be new talks aimed at ending the Korean war and reach inc.

a Far Eastern settlement. The informants who can be described only as represent atves of both Fast and West said the initial American reaction was cool. The sources said as far as they are aware the Russians have introduced no new proposals for a settlement. But the fact of a Russian approach, they speculated, could mean: Communist resources are being strained by the inconclusive Korean war. Alternatively the Reds might have been trying to blunt Arneri; can determination to call for additional measures against: Red China by the United Nations.

American officials apparently were inclined to distrust the So- I viet move as just this sort of maneuver. Wilbarger was hanging itself out to dry Friday, following the heaviest rains since last Spring. A total of inches of rain was recorded in Vernon since 9 Wednesday night when the dounpour startl'd No rain has fallen in county sine- shortly after midnight Thursday Skies vveie clearing Friday morning, and the sun was peeping Ihroueh clouds that appeared to be lilt The wtm IH erman indicated most, of the rain for this section is over foi the lime be but forecast heavy rains for1 Last Texas. Although the ram did some damage io newJy--planted cotton, and washed out terraces in some areas ol the county, larmeis vel- comed the moisture. Most farmers say the moisture is sufficient to can a cotton crop well into the summer, Alfalfa were also jubilant.

flam did wheat farmers little good Wheat at the I a when rain i-; pei haps more haim- fui tnan Matr, acj e.s had a I been abandoned, due to dm and other causes Pea River, which reached a height oi eight feet overnight, was receding Friday morning. Its waters backed into low lands and inundated much pasture land in some areas, but damage was considered full year prior MacArthur said it was difficult to reconcile what Mr, Truman, said with his appointment by the President as United Nations com I mander after the Red invasion, last June. "When the President said yes terclay that Ihis had been going on for about a year he was think mg of the first time he read the MacArthur letter to the VFW which was in the month oi Au Short told reporters. Speaking "He had not considered his dismissal prior to tin outbreak of i the Korean lb said that when Mr Truman spoke of giving consideration to the dismissal lor about a year, "he was just speaking in a rial wav had not intended to be precise as to the time MacArthur sent the VFW convention last August a letter dealing with Formosa. The lettet was given to newsmen in advance but Mi, Truman ordered MacArthur to withdraw it.

The general did but the lettej was published wide- ly anyhow Mi statement yes today that he had been consul eiing dismissal for about a year brought demands on I capitol lull for widening the inquiry into MacArthurs ouster. Bridges said that it 'raises a number of new for the investigation. Prvn Maui, Pa, Mas iS Major Mel Lowei Mei ion township police suporto tendent said eight persons are, known to have been killed in the crash two tamed Pennsylvania; Railroad trams here todav Am hoi at IV i eports said a least ot he i were injured, eight them seriously, Fn bodies ere aben rom the wreckage ol the Pittsburgh Philadelphia Night press and the KM bound from troi! to New York Another was: reponed to have been located in the debris The Ited Arrow plowed into ht' rear of the Night F.xptew at VJN a a short distance west ot i he station here. spokesman tor the PRR said Philadelphia Night pi ess had been halted on a signal indicating that something might be dragging from underneath the ram ll was while the crew was try to detect the that the Red Arrow smashed into the rear i a i a sleeping I rom 'lev land 1 tele a.ipinr it and spilt ting it half This ear the "Pnplarv bad a sleeping capacity of VM, the spokesman said, but added it had not been determined how passengers actually were there fhe other lilis of the express wore derailed The engine or the Real Arrow nosed straight into the air, then tumbled onto its side. Rebind the locomotive were two unoccupied cars train crew dormitory and a baggage both of which were ailed.

The lour 1 1 ark PRH mam line in this a rea, which also pour, tens of thousands of dwcllcrs into Philadelphia rom mercc and mdust ry daily. is oral eh girmled with satelv de vices Among them an auto rnatic hloek signal svstem whlch directs eilgineers to slow or stop lien ing too close to trams on the samo 1 1 ick A PKK ot ho said railroad is mvestrgating but not et establisbed the tacts pressod the opinion the Red row was 1 1 aveling at Reckless Enemy Refuses Io Be Halted in Korea Red Casualties Grow as Slaughter Mounts; Allies Are Retreating. I hris ev Ar Iran normal speed at the lime of tho ci ash Withm moment-, ai tei the ne eident blindii ol peoplc gai ned at the scene ili one ot the qmetest ot Pluladelphta's rcsidcu-, ial, eli to dit suburbs Among first to werc Iwo priests lumi Mothei ol Jood 'ouncil Ih 1 a i 1- at bei John l'uobv, i and ieot ge Me N'amai A 1 thev resene par iiics ni st'arching for the dead and 1 helpmg muovai oi injured to hospit ls 1 hi il eed "Thei a little coiitusion. 'The le- biidly bm scemrd to hav one ichie! eoncern the ol jlhose lio bad beco in.im ed more i senoiish Re Cllt et fort WCi infide dii by the terram. The had stopped mi a curve.

From Hit jright of way the ground slopes sliai and is over willi undes hi ush, l'or a time tire threatened witnesses saw elee) ne flnsh, fhen tlames rising from tele coach. The PRR uses elee Itrlc eiu'ines trom over- fiead wires, in this uhm The lire vvas ipienchcd soon altei' the fur leni was (minai off element fought nese in Mav IR Trapped a i Ameriean division outh through massed i- 1 ist Korea Friday as tie off i with si aught The Red: the nisivc on allons de ci of ht wee a pressed gigari- the entire front as-: od for the own men. of Communist but by Bradley Says U. S. in Need Of Sound Military Program Los Angeles, May 1H The, Ifni ted Stales must quickly in-j voke a sound, permanent military program to meet global responsi bilitu this dangerous decade, Omar Bradley urged today.

The i ban man ot the joint ol staff, speaking to an audience observing Armed Forces and World Trade Week, declared: States preparedness is below par compared to the dangers that confront us and will Continue to be below par, until each of us ea 1 1 haf ei ahi enemies may do to its, but dan- in what we fail to do for out Through a proper and sustained may avoid the war. Put if ve IU -11 di'teli VVe ll ar hope to pia "When I consider preparedness, we peril ol an all out stop short of ade invite the cut the security pl can the hi ms peo i next 10 bel am i the oiieerrn about he added slue! ni ht of numbers the Reds cr pushin-; back FN' aei oss Korea and had gained as much as miles in three days of bloody a 11 ack i in the west Red columns i within 10 miles ot Seoul, ing rag'd on both the extern and no! lie approaehes to the old I South Korean capital i respondent Wdiiam aid on the front poi ted that the American ole! menis whicli luid been great rouble' had crashed through ti It rat in lune- to I heir Two' South Korean units wore I badly mauled It was the foidup of the South Koreans that the Hank of the icans. threatened S. men piled the Reds with chinegun file. One offite) said: "I think must of the are loped They right through machine gun or artillery Fuit F.Hcape* A spectacular artillery barrage helped one unit escape the Chinese block The big guns ringed the A tuoi leans as they moved south and held the at bay, other elemf-nts of the American division were holding firm.

It was not clear from closely censored field reports whether the hole through which the were pouring had been Across the flaming warft ont the pressed forward in human ea waves despite massed Allied artillery fire and searing air attacks. said the toll of let the Chinese Reds' since they entered 1 November And it. shaping up as their one a ue. Red to throw the Allies ry the June ga first t.hi" Communist he tr i 1 lined for dang man oi is ri; ky airi our men o.l the i al and bill wall provide 1 ho Two Candidates In City Race Two men had filed for City Commissioner from Precinct 3 when the deadline carne Thursday rugid, City Secretary S. hall '-aid Friday.

two men who have lor the post left vacant by Ra ea resignation are- Dan kurn and Ci. McCarroll. Mr who won his without oppoition last month, mo from Vernon His resiigna- tion was accf pted on May The election will be held on Monday, June IS. nn in filed John Yoa- has American defense "This decade one 11 i an if we properly Cien. Bradley military tramini before Congres tr ained men req 'with vast sav dollars lie igiiate.

initial cost of build ir if base (o: i men will io rt' ra yeas and it will bike ooo a year to maintain it atte that He also mg weapons and ion Regarding be constantly Mrs. B. F. Henry Succumbs Here 2b! day Me night ed Ktciid si iffenci Saal tii(- V. eapittis on ia- i seem jt ax pa i that the ade 3 0 iUiprov Mis.

Henry. Street, died 'IhUi' ui a local hospital. Funeral services- will be conducted ai 2 pm Saturday in the Henderson Funeral Home Chape; vvith John (i Rei se minister of the Church of Christ, officiating ill be in the Crowell Field dispah dead Was This was fifth offensive the war in lab appeal ed to be mightiest dnvs prisoners said, out of Korea I anniversary ol asion. command 1,111.000 av a da I and Mancbm the saul And we he hey spent linynoaj I I aibire The great Reel assault is jaihll Gil! Jam Fh et eonf ly told his ground forces UN m-t seti artillery fired nt record speed to cut attacking pe Allied airmen bad a jkh le roo in I i if ree hern. of rea romand less in i Van Allied i urial erriete If.

was born on April MH2. fienton She to Crowell in 1000 and to from Crowell prSK Site a of I ta Church ol of includi Jack of olra hot husband. I Jectrft and Texia.s; complain' many Red id hot by the thou Barbed vv before the fir- grue th that they find I the na Is bu fell vsprma rn Two an fr Urla Qu i Retired Air Force Sergeant Is Speaker H. B. Valentine, retired air force sergeant, was the speaker at Harmon Funeral Rites Are Scheduled Sunday Funeral services for G.

R. Har-; mon will be held at 2 p. Sunday at the Presbyterian Church of Colony, Okla. tack and was able to give the Mr. Harmon, father of Ellis: Lions a iirst-hand account of the Harmon of Vernon, died Thursday attack.

morning. Mr. Harmon is in He was also quizzed in regard Colony to attend funeral services; to the Truman-MacArthur situ- for his father. Red Losses in Korea Estimated at 904,788 Washington, May 18. f.Pr- -The thl' Club Friday Army today cs.imatort noon and d.scussod the Japanese )osses in Korea a( 78g attack on Pearl Harbor in 194.1.

Valentine was stationed May i This is 11,126 rnoie than was Rtckam field time of at-! reported through April 30. Chinese and North Korean battle casualties were placed at 631,607. Non-combat casualties were estimated at 123,880, In addition, 147,301 Red prisoners of war have been captured by actual count Conferees Vote To Extend Draft, Lower Age Limit May 18. Senate and House conferees Friday agreed to lower the draft age to an da Iso voted to extend selectr sei ice until July 1935, Trie commit vili meet again an effort to iron out other dif- ierences. However, the date of that meeting has not bee nset.

The present minimum draft age is 19, The Senate had voted to lower it to 18, for both active service and for a pioposed future univer-al military training program, The compi omise dI. allow he induction of 18-vear-olds for train, ing if and when me two houses agree on all details of a draft bill. Supreme Court To Rule On Texas Citrus Tax McAllen, May 18 The of whether 'JV-xas tax is constitutional wan headed foi the Texas Supreme Court to da 'Fhe tax was upheld here vesier- dav Judge S. N. Me- j'Vnoitcr.

But he Odd "I have known ail along that gardless of the decision here, this CSse would reach a mg court. lor final test Tne Texas Citius Act authoriaees a three-cent per box tax tor ad, veiti The act the Citrus Corr.mi-Mon to the tax and regulate the qualil of the shipped. The court, contest is being made by Hugh Rouw, Ldinburg shipixr Rouw the tax is ihegal because it not for a public pose industry, and in no preconceived nrt'ions prides stand in the aeecjUance ol a merit." morale hi be some who doubt that tune io act On this mat adequate progtam Americans for p- ieri indus1 1 to prov ide the they Will need, the t.m.e The general's highlight oi a three-day the been jku iious. tf.il i always really of an aimng and the o' our weapons now," was the isit here. Mrs nd Mi thl Pei Valici 1 former Hr live giandc 1 1.

ol 1 extensively itions in Korea for bung with lands of Chinese, miles wire was ml of one unit, ie- this picture Fri- mg the front it Pr. Jeif Todd, icy, Clayton arai Presley Dr was past months have greater danger could lie entu eiy ahead," he beca iso of what Not our' ICC Approves Boost In Parcel Post Rates Washington. May 18 'I be Interstate authorized the Post Office Department to boost pared pos! rates an a-, rage of 23 pet cent. The new rates wui. go to effect 1.

The ICC action was taken on a petition filed last October I Postmaster General The is intended to put. tne parcel post system on a paying basis. Dr. Rumely Fined on Contempt Charges Wa iungton, May 18 cT today fined 1 O'Hi given so nded sentence for tempt oi. Congresx.

The sentence was imposed on the executive secretary oi she committee for constt- i ior: government by Federal Judge Richmond Keei-h Rumely was convicted by a jury April 18. Judge Keeeh said lie had given tin a- "es'iaorduu constdcTa- iook to American force, ptij from Fijorighu, It mile 'UI Red screening fo Jo of the old nan a I An I pu rol ped 10 i Red mine he'd eovred rnatic fire failed tn break UN lino in e-i -central louif Friday. raged across the o'rU'ii! front Ti-e Allied line oui back before waves of t.e king Cluni- e. led hack north of ith- t--, ili by a i ri attacks the Abaco Island Is Hit by Hurricane May IS. pre- hurricane today blast- Abaco Island, In the 170 miles northeast of winds of 80 miles an ano ould save tor thi conmut -aid a orne; trie cas Neil will man to jai Rurkin- be ap- Mi.im season 1 ed little ha ma Miami, hour, Earlk drove- a the freakish disturbance ocket range construction crew inland on great Bahama Island with 75-mile winds.

A Na hurricane hunter plane fIew into the storm today and I found its eye off little Abaco Is- After the sentencing. Dr. Rum-: land. ely a statement saying So small was the storm, said the nave no! and do not now hold hurricane hunters, that Hopetown, the Congr' of the United States 50 miles away on Great Abaco, or ita contempt." Jhad only 40 mi it wmds..