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The Vernon Daily Record from Vernon, Texas • Page 9

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3ronx Estonian )escribes Life Under Russians New York, Dec. 4. An Estonian now living in the Bronx gays that after the overran his native land ht wag accused of being a spy and grilled unmercifully for six weeki. Voldemar G. Ludig, 48, was a uitnew yesterday before a special House committee investigating seizure by RuWia of the Baltic states of Estonia, and Lithuania.

Ludig testified that he was arrested in 1940 and held captive in a cupboard too small to enable him to stand, sit or lie down. He was questioned for six weeks by night, he said, and his guards refused to let him sleep during the daytime. The committee has invited Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet deputy foreign minster and permanent delegate to the United Nations, to testify In defense of his action concerning the Baltic states. Benson Criticized, Praised For Reorganization of SCS Friday, Dec. 4, 1 953 7eraon, 9 One of World's 7 Wonders Described as IHoliow Sham London, Dec.

4. The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven ancient of the world, was described by a British Kscientist here as a hollow sham. Herbert i Maryon. 79 year old sculptor! archaeologist, told a meeting of I the Society of Antiquaries the I giant statue was; 1. Too small to stand astride the harbor of Rhodes.

I 2. Made of thin bronze sheets instead of solid bronze, TTie statue, of the sun god He- STOKV Stft. arey II. Weiiiel polnln to spot whf're hp UHH fnirli't! for oiphf hours as ho calmly loliJ Senate In inifton how his North raptors shot lilni as he huthlled in a shallow ditch with fiO American and 40 Korean POUs. Welnel, a career soldier from Hickman Fall, was first former FOU' to tell Senate Sulwonunlttee his stor.v on (Ommunlst atrocities In Korea.

Washington, Dec. 4. of Benson came under new criticism and prai.se today, touchcd off by his reorganization of the Soil Conservation Service. Carrying on the attack before a House gox'crnment operations subcommittee, the National Assn. of Soil t'onservation di.stricts ac- cu.sed Fien.son of bad faith and demanded jettisoning of the plan pmdinti further study.

The American Farm Bureau Federation approved the of reorganization and ex- prt belief that Iion.son should cairy it out. The House subcommittee called Bonson and others before it in firarings starling yesterday to air tiu controversy over the reorcan- put into effect, Nov. 2 as ol' I'evampinfi of the Agriculture Department Coke declared the plan repre- a desirable decentralization of authority that carried soil conservation to the state level where it woiild be of most help to the farmers. As the scheduled witnes.s today. Waters S.

Davis Jr. of Te.xas, president of th( Assn. of Soil at ion Districts, assailed the Benson reorganization as a mined effort to make soil conservation a partisan, political He said Benson's to con.sult witii the association was never in its U'ue sense. that the association was i (old that wc would he shown thej plan before it was made public' but, if didn't like it. not to get mad.

'Fhere was no choice hut to: ri'bel." Davis a.sserted not a soil con- Small Businessmen Talk With House Committeemen Dallas. Dec. f.fS-Small busi- ne.ssnien of the North Texas area got a chance today to talk over their problems with a S. House commit tee dedicated to lending them a helping hand. Rep.

Muller iD-NY) met yes-j terday with otficials of the region-1 al Small Business Administration! office. Today he and Rep. CYaig Hosmer both members, of the House Small Com- mit tee, presided at a public hear- i ing to take the teinperature" oi' North Texas businessmen, Rep. Dies (D-Tex) sat in. The two committeemen wili hold a similar heannj: tomorrow in Texarkana where they will be joini'd by Reps, I'atman Kvans iD-Tenni and Yalt's COLIJSiON KII.L.S TWO Ardmore.

Dec. 4. persons were killed In a head-on auto collision five miles south of here on S. 77 last night. Thcji victims were Carl Brown, 38.

of Dallas, and Joe Higgins, 41, of Marietta. They were driving alone. BetterCough Relief Creomulsion contains only safe, ful, proven ingredients and no narcotics to disturb natures proem, goes into the bronchial system to aid nature soothe and heal raw. inflamed bronchial membranes. aniced to please or your funds money.

Creomulsion has stooa the test of many millions of CREOMUIfSION Coujhi. IrMKhHt Ben.son's appearance was brief committee was atnong Asst. Secretary Earl most of the talking. Coke did Bir Spring Hospital FBI Hunfing Men Accused Of Kidnaping Dec. 4.

Pretty Mrs. Gloria Bullock Weaver, 22, mother of an infant son, is aafe at home today and FBI agents are hunting for two men accused of kidnaping her. Found unharmed on a downtown street near the Chattahoochee River bridge Wednesday, she said was released by her kidnapers on! Nine Dead and 20 Injured the Alabama side of the bridge, gy Tornado in Louisiana Her husband, Arthur, a buildmg contractor, spotted her on the Alexandria, I.a., Dec. 4. ti Georgia of the shortly tornado ripping through Central was not cast in one piece, as hith- after she telephoned home from yesterday left at least erto but was made of a drug store near where she was I nine persons dead and 20 injured.

bronze sheets beaten into shape' lac I other wore in- and ruolcl tOEOIhrr. rMi- said an unidfnti-; jured a slorm in a rural areajmated the thickprss nf the shfou fied man entered her home In her of Vicksburg and about 150 as equal to that of a British absence Tueiday night I miles northeast of here, and her to an aufomobilei Tlie tornado struck first at 1-e- parked outside. She said he did. ander, 25 miles southwest of Alex- not use force. lios, was the work of a sculptor named Chfa.res, who spent 12 yeans on his masterpiece.

It was erccted in 280 B. C. An earthquake tumbled it 53 years later. The story handed down through the years is that the statue stood; with a beacon in its hands and one foot on each side of the harbor entrance, witli enough clearance i ior ships to pass iftiderneath. Contract Date Is bet Marvon said he has determined, Austin, Dec.

4 Hospitiii from a studv of cla.s.siral in.scrip-! Board arcliitccts were studying to- tions that the statue was in fact day bids submitted esterday on a 1.20 feet high and the harbor 600 infect wide, which would make the which contracts will famous straddle an impossibility. 'rxvo low base bidders were t-urthermore, he said, his re- Construction Co. of San arch indicated the heroic ii's'uro Angelo, and Texans Sfand City Strain Very Well the 24 advi.sory conunittees and conferences called by Henson. This, I)av is asserted, to cniy one conclusion; That action was taken based on extreme incomplete tact.s and serious lack of flhout the wishes of i those mo.st is also he i "the veiy ugly that thosei in ciiargc of leorganizatiun had' something to hide," The a.ssociation by embraces about tenser-1 vation dislricl.s locally! San Antonio, Dec. 4.

Are 'I'exans (-racking up under the strain of big city life? How are residents of the stale, for years u.sed to the open ttirouijhoul the country, and life on tlmusand-acre up un.ler the strain living injhe mushrooming cities; to( ay I tion offices. Answer to he firs one. Hmmtn.j nenson has made foi-waid in suhse- I (pient modifications of ilu' original plan, Davis said the lake It from Dr. he letuiner) lo tlie status riifin, jtsvchologv teacher at the no bf'foie the pionoun(C- Coupokes are getting used to mighty fast. I iiuersity of 1't'xas, the principal not alwaays go to for the number of psychol-i ogists doubling in Texas in the about a lotii of an inch.

andria, kiUing seven persons. Committee To Help Pick leaving a path of death and de- U. of T. Chancellor struction, it touched near here, Paradise. Dry Prong and then killed two more at Tullos, 40 miles northeast of here.

related that and the man got into the back of the car with another unidentified an at the steering wheel. While one held her ai-ms, the other blindfolded her with her own scarf, liHEX PROBLFMS REI.ATKD After darkness fell Dec. 4. Acute sex effective Jan. 1 stop and she was put in a probably related to; The committee has l)oen asked leap from a near of a house.

The men occupied and hiocheniical 'to submit a list of nominees as here. an adjacent room, the said. generally disregarded as Rcsient Chnirnian' darkness fell last night, a renowned scientist Scaly of JVIidland said. I'hc i VI lo I Mrs. Wenvpr continued, she said here.

Eh-. Roger Williams, Cni-' wll name the chancellor' Washington. Dec. 4. i.fi proposed.

The hoard also will award con- tsacts 14 on the new tuberculosis hospital at and on a medical and huikiing at Austin. Harlingen bids will opened Austin, Dec. 4. -An advisory Dcc. the Au.stin tiids LVc.

10. committee to help select a new! -------------------chancellor for the of BODV IN KIVF-R Texas is headed by Hines Orange, Dec. 4. f.l’* Officers Houston oil executive. were searching the River Chancellor James Hart has re- for the of an fied man who made a I eral plan lo regroup ici's and growth of the states functions able to be past eight years has been the tre- nu ndou population mostly.

Holtznian, here to attend a con 1 ioti f)t said course, people do live nt a pace in the cities than in till' rtir.Tl arcH.s, and are under more of a strain. Our fast-growing citi'S, willi these have more demand for the use of psychologists than in the past in this area are also beeom: iiiR more aware of their the Nov ment hy the depai lment Tlie Kami Bureau of iienson's gen- licrformed at the state Cieoriic Wilson, a bureau dirre lor. he felt conservation could nv'te in state oft ices than "under rigid rules laid down by distant regional or national Saying the plan was "in line with l-'artn Bureau Wil son said; "The of the lean l-'iiim Hureau blindfolded again and put back into the automobile. versity of Texas Biochemical in-i with the aid of the committee, stitute director, urged more The blindfold was removed when I extreme variations lU Bl KX Gen Matthew Chirf of Staff, ill leave Mondav If.r an inspection trip to Fort Bliss. Tc.v- Psychologists are very rare in, tn-innes the Secre i an as, says Ihe ieulture descrves an op-! numbei will be found in plan of liie larger cities and around indus- with respeet to Irial arcas miproveinenl and son-i TaUunr cverything into consid el at ion, it the average Tex- also witti lespect ln the Depart they j-eached the outskirts of Phemx City.

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