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(Tlip Maro ily Edition LI A WACO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1947 28 PAGES Ntwioaixr 8Ptr- Special NUMBER 138 Tornado Debris Combed for Victims: 132 Dead Compromise On Long-Line Phone Issues Rejected Where Scores Died When Tornado Devastated City in Oklahoma Aldermen Asked To Re-Zone Site Of Tot Hospital Okeh of Proposal To Strike Blow at Suit fhe City Zoning Board unanimously adopted Thursday night a recommendation to the Board of Aidermen for re-zoning the site of the McLennan County Crippled Children's Hospital as "second property. Present zoning of the two lots owned by the McLennan County Crippled Association is which does not permit construction of a hospital, although a permit for construction was issued by the City. Mould Remove Legal Tangle The promised re-zoning, if finally adopted by the City, will remove one of the two legal grounds on which Is based the Seventy-fourth District Court injunction suit filed against the association by W. Lee Taylor, T. W.

Fadal and Frank N. Pirelo, residents of the 1700 block on Indiana Avenue. The hospital lots are at Eighteenth Street and Indiana adjoining Taylor's property. The injunction suit also contends that the lots are restricted to residential use by deed restrictions The Zoning Board was concerned only with the zoning question Mechanics of the re-zoning pro- posal is for the Zoning Board to See ALDERMEN, Page State Protie Of Education System Voted AUSTIN, April AP -An exhaustive investigation of public education system by an 18- member committee was proposed by the House of Representatives today beforf it joineo the Senate in adjourning until Monday. The committee's membe rsh i would consist of 12 persons selected by the Governor, plus three members each from the House and Senate.

The Governor appointees would include three representatives of classroom teachers; three from public school administration and organization; three from higher education; three professional or business men not directly connected with public school education. To become effective, the Senate Hopes for Settlement Soon Get New Setback WASHINGTON, April 10 for a quick end of the four-day national telephone strike dimmed tonipht when strike leaders rejected a management proposal for a compromise settlement with the key long lines union. President Joseph A. Beirne of the National Federation of Telephone Workers said the company proposal was But he left the door open for further negotiation of the long lines dispute which is regarded as the pivotal issue. Counter Proposal Ready He said the NFTW's 49-member policy committee had approved a counter-proposal which will be given to Secretary of Labor Lewis B.

Schwcllenhach and made public at 11 a. m. tomorrow. Beirne gave no hint of what the counter-offer would contain, but it was reported from other sources that the strikers would demand an entirely new approach to the negotiations with all future bargaining sessions open to the press. He said the manaeement offer to the 20,000 long distance oper- See PHONE ISSUES, Page 26 Heads Mexia Home AUSTIN.

April William Thomas of Austin, formerly of Terrell, has been appointed superintendent of the Mexia State School and Home effective April 16, the State Board of Control announced here today. He is now physician at the Austin Home for Senile Mental Patients. 7 Oklahoma Town Hardest Hit, 100 Blocks Levelled Officers Ordered to Crack Down On Looters; Communications Difficult WOODWAKin April tornado ripped through Western Texas and Oklahoma last hr lit killing 132 persons, injuring a possible more and tailing millions of dollars of property damage in its wake. Reports from Red Cross field units to the Texas Highway Patrol estimated that as many as 154 may have died in the tempestuous storms and that even more dead might still be found in the wreckage. The Red Cross at St.

Louis reported 132 known dead and at least 1305 injured as follows: Woodward, 85 dead, 1,000 or more injured; Texas, 34 dead, 232 injured; Glazier. Texas, 13 dead, 40 injured; White Horse. none dead. 30 injured; Gray County, Texas, none dead, three injured. Toll High in Woodward Eugene Digges Is Dead AUSTIN, April 10- will be held here tomorrow morning for Eugene Digges.

68. well-known book collector and Southwestern literary authority, who died today. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Katherine Z. Digges.

a daughter, Mrs Mary Adelle Smith, and a son. Eugene Digges all of Austin. Heavy casualties resulted ivlien a tornado swept through several towns in the Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle. One of the hardest lilt was Woodward, Okla. This aerial lien of Woodward, showing a portion of the city, reieals only a few houses standing in this immediate area pictured.

(AP Wirephoto.) Record heat Crop Seen WASHINGTON. April The Agriculture Department today forecast a record Winter wheat crop of 973.047.000 bushels, based upon crop conditions April 1. The acreage seeded to Winter wheat. Hazing Ban Defended U. S.

to Lose Next By A. and M. Director rparp I Inlv llnnp Waco Aggie Exes Enter Cadet Row Waco ex-students of A. and M. the indicated yield per acre, and College Thursday entered the con the prospective production, respectively for Texas 12.5 and 92,275.000.

See STATE PROBE, Page 10 Auto orkers Idle DETROIT, April walkout of 1,360 employes on the final assembly line today idled more than 4,300 workers at the Jefferson plant of the Chrysler Corp. Executions Are Staved AUSTIN. April Beauford H. Jester tonight granted a 30-day stay of execution to Gaither Lovelady, convicted of murder in Lee County, and Oscar Allen, Negro, convicted for a liquor store murder in Dallas. Lovelady.

whose execution originally had been set for Feb. 13, was granted an additional reprieve and his execution now is set for May 13. execution was set for Mav 29. troversy at the military college with a request that the Inspector General of the United States Army investigate recent cadet trials at the school and reinstate student officers pending the investigation. The request was made in a let Board Knew It Was Doing, He Says AUSTIN.

April A mem- ber of the board of directors of Texas A. and M. College declared tonight that the board would not have been surprised if a strike of the entire cadet corps had followed the action in banning hazing. The witness was John W. Newton, oil company executive, and he said the board was mindful of the importance of the hazing question when it ordered the ban.

The witness also declared that his company, an oil firm, would not take into consideration the drop- i Peace Only Hope DALLAS, April 10 AP Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, deputy commander of the Army Air Forces, predicted here today that the United States wfould lose the next war. "The countries of the world are lining up against each other again and I see how the United States can come out on the winning the general said.

Only Hope Is Peace only hope is to maintain peace. I am discouraged and mo Cut Prices Or Raise Wages, Truman Warns WASHINGTON, April President Truman put responsibility for cutting prices squarely on business today, and said labor will he justified in asking higher wages unless living costs drop. He told his news conference that moral suasion is the only weapon os mistake his command to halt the I lose at seeing tne same mistakes Worst hit was Woodward where 100 blocks of buildings, most of them residences, were levelled. The Highway Patrol estimated that 100 persons may be dead here. State highway patrolmen took charge in wrecked Woodward with orders to "get to halt looting.

Mayor R. A. Bosch asked the State to take charge, saying were poking through shattered homes and wTecked store fronts for valuables. He said local authorities could not cope with the problem. Looting had been reported previously at Higgins, Texas, a Panhandle town that was wrecked hy the storm before it boune- i ed into Oklahoma.

Noland Norgaard. Associated Press correspondent, reported that 85 were known dead and that searching parties using bulldozers were digging in the ruins for additional bodies. The Red Cross at St. Louis compiled these casualty figures: Glazier. Texas, 10 dead, 40 Injured; Higgins.

Texas. 20 dead, 150 iniured; Woodward. 83 dead, 500 injured; White Horse, none dead, 30 injured. Red Cross, State Agencies Rushing Aid for Victims By THE ASSOCIATED PRES Texas mobilized quickly yesterday to rush relief to the tornado- torn Texas Oklahoma Panhandle where 132 were dead, over a thousand were iniured and countless other thousands were homeless and in need of aid. Clearing skies helped rescuers and relief workers.

Communications were bad because of both the telephone strike and disrupted lines. Full facilities of the State Government were offered by Governor Beauford II. Jester. The State Department of Public Safety, the State Department of Health and others joined the Red Cross in rushing disaster relief crews to the area. Supplies In The U.

S. Army. the Salvation Army and independent civic groups helped. Army planes flew in medical supplies. Six planes landed in Amarillo early yesterday, then nearer the affected id i made today that cost us 260 bil lions of dollars and more than 100.000 To support his prediction of American defeat in war.

General Eaker said, for three rea- ter sent the Inspector General by i the American Chemical Society in the Waco-McLennan hiring chemists. ping of the college from the list of sons: the discouraging apathy of the people, making the same old FFA Show Ope us At est Today Vocational agriculture students at West Thursday made final preparations for their two-day Future Farmers of America project show, which is to open Friday with a parade from the West business district to the show grounds near the hign school. Beet cattle, poultry, dairy cattle. sheep, and horses are to be exhibited. Prizes include a registered Jersey heifer contributed by Seare.

Roebuck and Co. of Waco, C. P. Vickery, West vocational agriculture instructor, has announced. Moving? In order that we may continue uninterrupted service to you when you change your address.

will you please co-operate with us during the present phone strike, by addressing a postcard to the Circulation Department of these newspapers, giving your OLD address, your address and whether you are a subscriber of the morning or afternoon paper or both. Thank you. THE WACO and TIMES-HERA I J) A. and M. Club.

The letter was signed by A. O. Faubus, president of the organization, and Champe Fitzhugh a director. Fitzhugh said the action was taken following the unanimous approval of 75 ex-students wiio met here Wednesday night. Call Trials Illegal In their letter the former A.

and M. students expressed their belief that the recent military trials were illegal. They called for a full investigation of charges and removal of Col. Guy S. Meloy I as commandant of cadets if that investigation finds him to be in the wrong.

The ex-students in their letter i gave these reasons for believing; See AGGIE EXES. Watns to Study Record "And I want that to go into the he declared. Newton again declared that the employment of a college president was not an issue subject to student advisement. "As to stopping he said, "we were mindful of the importance of this (referring to the written orders.) "We would not have been surprised if there was a strike of the entire cadet Tonight Shannon Jones, a former cadet major, testified that after a march on President Gibb Gilchrist's home by the Senior cadets. where the officers resigned their commissions, he went to the home of Col.

Guy S. Meloy commandant of cadets to "restore mistakes; the greed and desire for personal gain placed above national security; and the low' level to which the armed forces have said in the next war the man in uniform would be safer than the civilian because industrial cities and the morale would be primary objectives. Greater Casualties Due be far greater next he rv i peace on the campus and stop the nusmess Depression damaging publicity in the "And there will casualties in the added. "I believe the United States should unify the armed forces and have a system of comoulsory military training. Immediately after the guns of World War II ceased the people here at home clamored See EAKER, Page 26 continued price rise, but that At torney General Tom Clark is looking into ways to permit competing companies to make unanimous price cuts without violating the antitrust law.

Clark later issued a statement in which he said that he saw no reason why competitors should have to to cut prices. He said business firms should be able to reduce them voluntarily and individually without consulting their competitors at all. He said, however, that, although price-fixing arrangements among members of the same industry are usually subject to antitrust laws, the Justice Department would give "special study to any case wherein competitors agreed among themselves to cut prices. The President, whose concern over the inflationary effects of the price situation has been the major See TRUMAN WARNS, Page 12 CHICAGO, April Sykes, president of the Inland Steel predicted tonight that there would be a business depression this year. Appears Before The witnesses Six Die in Air Crash A Kircudbrightshire, Scotland, April Belgian Air Force Dakota transport plane crashed today in the summit of Cairn near Dairy, killing its six occupants.

before aco Markets Cattle small, trade strong cows and bulk higher. Few offered; prices steady, tops ft 4.50. liens 26c broilers turkeys Eggs S7c-SV lb. No. 1 cream 60c No.

cream. 57c lb. Oats $1 bushel; ear corn. 11.80 per 75 shelled corn cwt. Wool tops 40c mohair tops 60c kid hair tops 90c lb.

New-Katy Engine On Exhibit For Wacoans Sunday The er diesel passenger locomotive, which has been making a test run on the system since it was delivered March 31, will be given a 2.000-mile inspection at the M-K-T Warden Shops at Bellmead Saturday afternoon and night, and will uiiviiivnni causa cx.UU will i be on display to the public Sunday smise. Judge Refuses To Remit Fine; Sees Violation by UMW WASHINGTON. April Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough today refused to remit $2.800.000 to John L. United Mine because, he said, the mine boss had been of the courts and probably had violated the Supreme Court mandate forbidding another ppeared a joint investigating committee composed of five members from the House and five from the Senate.

studying the current A. and M. troubles. Near midnight, the committee Amendment Talks Highlight Annual Three Men Wounded in Gunfight Hillsboro Banquet See HAZING BAN, Page 10 Truman to Visit Mother WASHINGTON, April President Truman will fly to Mis- souri Saturday for a week-end visit with his 94-vear-old mother. Mrs.

Martha E. Truman, the mother, has been convalescing since late Winter from a broken hip she suffered in a fall at her modest little cottage at Grandview, Mo. Weather I S. HI KI.At Naaicipal Air Field Forecast for Wmo and vinnity. Fair today and Saturday partly cloudy and warmer.

Maximum to- cay 75 minimum $0 degrees. At SO a m. the river wan feet. Dur mg the preceding 21 1 a the maximum temperature was degrees at 4 p. m.

Minimum 63 at 3 p. m. Rain .32 laches. Total i a for the month .34 A year ago the maximum temperature was 77 degrees; minimum $5 No rain. Sunaet today p.

m. Sunrise tomorrow 6 04 a m. Moonriae today 12 a m. 10 (13 a. from 8 to 11:30 a.

m. at the Raii- road Station. Eighth Street and Jackson Avenue. Inspection Is Big Job The inspection by mechanics and diesel experts is similar to an inspection that would be given a new automobile, except that the task is so much greater that it requires 20 men working six hours total of 120 man: groom the giant locomotive. inspection includes wash- i ing and greasing, laboratory tests of the lubricants and thorough checks of the two 12-cylinder General Motors two- cy cle diesel engines.

When the 71-foot, locomotive moves from the War- See DIESEI NGIN Grants Government Request He granted the Government's request for a two-week delav in returning all but $700.000 the $3.500,000 fine he imposed on the union for striking agamst the Government last year. The Supreme Court had ordered 52,800.000 refunded if Lewis and the UMW reinstated their contract with the Government and called off their April 1 strike. But Goldsborough said there was evidence that Lewis had called the strike anyway. He said Lewis and the union apparently had taken advantage of the Centralia. 111., mine disaster to stage a walkout 1 through last shut-down and the current CRKFA rage 4UGOASS ARTHUR (linose your dealer then vnur Art's Jewelers.

721 See JUDGE REFUSES. Page 7 Low ich Clothiers has re- eeived selection Summer Slacks sues 28 to 44. George A. Green Fatally Stricken George Arthur Green. 59.

Baylor Avenue, retired conductor, died at his home Thurs- dav at 6:30 p. m. of a heart attack. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a. m.

Saturday at Compton Chapel. Rev. Tilson F. Maynard officiating, burial in Oakwood Cemetery. Mr.

Green was a conductor on the for 38 years before retiring three years ago. He was owner of the G. Arthur Addition and member of the George Denton Masonic Lodge. Waco Chapter No. 7.

Eastern Star, and Karem Shrine. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Elva S. Green of one brother. John Green of Corpus Christi; his father, William Green of Dem- By JAMES KNIGHT Central Texas Reporter The Waco Xews-Tribune HILLSBORO.

April SPL- Witnessing a program which gained momentum with each step. Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce members and guests heard Joe A. Clarke, vice president of the Fori Worth National Bank, warn of return to their twenty-fifth annual banquet held at the Country Club Thursday night. The affair was with a warm, though friendly, discussion of a proposed amendment to change the method of a board of directors for the group. Clarke, in warning of the return to what people to as normal times, reviewed Jesuits of each pervf of the rJO years.

Beginning thA 20V he mentioned that the so-called period of scarred with havoc brought oy gangsters and lawlessness. Following the market crash 1029. Clarke said, things went bud to worse until poverty hovered Gunfight SEDALIA. April Three men were killed today and two others were wounded by gunfire in an incident which was attributed to a quarrel over gambling. Highway Patrol Figures Texas Highway Patrol estimates 100 at W'oodward.

Higgins. Glazier. 8. and Gagen, 2. The patrol listed 20 dead at Shattuck, Okla.

The storm did not strike there and these bodies presumably were from nearby stricken areas. The storm, he said, may have lasted 10 may all have been over in just General Course Northeast The general course of the storm was northeast from White Deer, Texas, 50 miles from Amarillo, then through Glazier. Higgins, Texas, Gage. and Woodward. All except Woodward, which has a population of 5,500.

are communities of less than 1,000 persons. Small tornadoes struck Fowler. Sharon. Isabel, Newton, and Harveyville, about 2:30 this morning, causing an estimated $175.000 damage, all told. No casualties were reported.

These cities are in a straight line northeast of the path taken by the Oklahoma storm. Many of the injured taken from here to Oklahoma City, and hospitals as far away as Wichita, were readied to receive patients if necessary. A special train took some of the injured to Ava, and took off to lane area. Health Department w'orkers were equipped to chlorinate water lup- plies and four portable water purification piants were made available for use. The Fourth Army moved swiftly at San Antonio.

Gen. Jonathan M. W'ainwright ordered Major Gen. Clift Andrus, commanding the artillery center, Fort Sill, to send a representative to the scene, See TORNADO, Page 11 I See RED CROSS, Page 10 Rep. Mansfield I Is Critically 111 WASHINGTON.

April 10-AP Representative Joseph Jefferson Mansfield. Democrat of Texas, at 86 the oldest man in Congress, is gravely ill in the Naval Hospital in suburban Bethseda, Md. A bulletin issued late in the afternoon by Capt. L. O.

Stone, the commanding officer, said he had a "circulatory and was in conddition. Mansfield was placed under an oxygen tent today. At his bedside were a son and daughter, Bruce Mansfield, of Washington, and Mrs. R. P.

Dorsey of Baltimore. Another daughter, Mrs. Frank Schmidt, lives in Kings- I bury, Texas. Dazed Victims Plead For Doctor; Families Trapped In Wreckage of Homes Wallace to See Attlee LONDON. April Wallace will be a luncheon guest of Prime Minister Clement Attlee tomorrow at the Prime country seat.

Chequers. Tonight, Wallace will dine with U. S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas, who will accompany him to Chequers tomorrow. over the nation.

A Drastic Mistake He termed the action Government officials in killing livestock during that period a drastic mistake brought on by bureaucrats, not livestock men. The last period of the 30 veart saw this country involved in war. he re- son. See HILLSBORO BANQUET, P. 10 By CARTER BRADLEY United Press Staff Correspondent WOODWARD, April 10- you want to know what a town been the target of a tornado looks like and how its people talk? It's like this: A little girl comes out and flags you down.

She wants to know if you are a doctor. Any other time be funny, to be asked if a doctor. Not here. Because got to tell the little girl you are a re- porter and you help but see disappointment in her face. She says: Mamma and Daddy are in the As she turns away, you look.

I The house is one big pile of I rubbish. Mostly, you find, citizens can't talk much. dazed. wondering about their relatives and friends. Trying to talk to them is like yelling down deep well.

You get your own words echoing back. In the hospitals and morgues, ou see them, the bandaged and ruised living searching among the moaning injured and the ever- so-quiet dead. Mostly, when you moved through the torn residential district, they looked at you and, if they asked anything, wanted to know if you were a doctor. You felt helpless as you shook your head. Police Sgt.

J. W. Westbrook How does it feel when the big said the airplane was flying off blow comes? Leo Jack of Enid, Airport on Hampton knows. He was here last Road and is the property of Tevair ---------------------------------------------------Aviation a training school. See DAZED VICTIMS, Page 11 List Of Victims Dallas Chutist Killed bv Plane DALLAS.

April Bennett Day, 36. of Dallas failed prosperity was to clear a spinning airplane from which he had bailed out and was killed when the plane nosed into a muddv field south of Oak Cliff llitl? l(K13iV Pilot of the light-type Steerman aircraft, R. L. Burns, 21, of Grand Prairie, was admitted to Methodist Hospital with a back injury he received after parachuting from the falling plane. W.

brook By The Associated Press Forty-six Texans late Thursday were tentative identified to have been killed in the tornado which swept through the Texas-Oklahoma Panhandles. Due to bad communications, the list was subject to correction, but reports from Borger and Pampa where many of the bodies were taken listed the following casualties: REPORTED KILLED AT GLAZIER: Mr. and Mrs. W. O.

Scott, both 65. Mrs. E. 51. Herring, 92.

Miss Ida Farrell, 70. Harry Farrell. Dee Eubanks, 60. A Mrs. Davis.

Howard Broadway, believed to be from Panhandle. Troy Brock, believed to be from Amarillo. Miss Jean McCarty. Palm Eubanks, 65. Walter Engleman, Santa Fe crewman.

Tom Hext, 55. T. G. Howard. Two unidentified men.

one believed to be Walter Engman, mem- I See.