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(Ebe Citj Edition LI A 1 l'rfss I WACO, TEXAS, MONDAY. MAY 19, 1947 10 PAGES Sprctnl NANA-North Amencan NUMBER 170 Waco Faces New Stoppage in Phone Service Bells and (Jiimes Layman At Methodist (lluireli SernKin at Memorial Baptist Also Heard LAYMAN' I. II VKKl npral rt aro V.M( A si i uor hip nt of 1 'nnii; of t' I I- in I 'of tic ti' ui I Mother Truman Growing Worse It a -'Hi rtfif! iiif a. n. ni fi hat ho in harl i arthrni hy Candlyie.

and llf lj ful ie Ml no and ani Mr Kvan. -iirr at ail Not eninix hfi I 1 Ml it F- -t at' nk in hr (tun 11 I hi ut h. i(h Ml in i -I. foi hr ttr mu'i'J and in ra- utt at ft porn- ho r.ffittinV duko. I tuld nil Blalock.

Calvert Attack Speech in Austin Sudden Turn Comes After Karlier Rally BV KKNKST B. VACX'ARO ilHANDV'IEW, May I'rosidf'nt 94-year- I old inothor was'uaKinR a deler- minod tonight al- jthouiili hor hoart was doscribod as I tirofj anfl aftor a late aftoinoon sotbaok. A ffw hours aftor Iho Prosidont into Kansas t'ity, 17 niilos away to his press socrotary, ('harlos I. floss, an- nrmncod that Martha E. Truman wa.

sk'opinji and that she was broathinK Her llally Ainazitii; Mrs. 'I'luman, who amazed the President and other members of family after an unexjiected rally this inoitiinK. began during the afternoon. Truman still has the old spirit and Eoss told a morning news conference, adding that the personal physicial. Brig Wallace H.

said has a very tired Her grave rondition made the of return to Washington problematical. He when she siif- a StTHMls M'lapse. The retired about 9 m. ii'S'I in hi'' hotel Muehle- hach leaving in- strurtions that he be awakened if fiis mother became more seriously ill during the night. May Get Relief Post Rlrhard F.

Allen a Red C'roMii vice ehairiiian, wan Kaid to be under rnnsideration by Freslilmt Triinian ap- aw direrlor of the for- rlifn relief proKrain. wlre- 18 AP Two Demo- fr, iv Red Henry 1 liere last night. rf Nr H'tl the Aa Amencan- a like 1 much leadership. When I the United States, TVrf State and the I Affairs ate rg on the in a bi-i-ai ti an to the ur ri the same 1 thi field wh I think I Americans who J- that fr State -e airman. W-T a- the T-e mind a hut f.

i a differ- 1 n. i.ut All he walked into the Kansas ('ity for dinner tonight, the President told reporters his as "resting all and that would return to (irnnd- view if necessary. In the absence I of any unfavorable development, Ross said. Mr. 'lYuman will drive out to see his mother again to( morrow, i iio.ss said there would be no further press conferences tonight un- I less there was an important change in Mrs.

condition. I Earlier this afternoon Mr.s. Truman had made such marked improvement that she walked for a few steps, with the for the first time since she fractured her right hip in a mid-February fall. She rocket! in her favorite chair for nearlv three hours, talking yfitrv May On tre In (wdlvrsUnt a' AP For a If, ff i i a hnn al I rung rt i pt a i-l'. il I f'fin 'uiilnv I-at pa k- hilf See MOTHER TRUMAN, Page 8 Killed In India IVain Derailment ('ALcr'lTA.

India. IK Thirty persons and injured, 20 seriou.sly, when a fiurma express train was de- I railed yesterday near Comilla, I East Burma, was reported to- I Hay. More Rain Is Due Here Today After weatherman said Sunday night that Waroans may expect i thunrlershowers and 9()- toinpeiatures today, fol- lowing Saturdav night anrl Sunday I loudburst iif 2.25 inches I in less than four hours. No damage was repojted over the countv the i companied downpour Weather bureau officiais said they believed the iloud was rontered on and that tainfall over most of the of Ci'ntial wa.s not quite so heavy, i Whilo moi rain Is pi-i'dirtod for should bo nothing like Saturday night one, bureau of' fii lal said. 'I hi' incfi tain was the hea- at Hlaekland since 1 i 1-inch dicnrber that fell on Api il 12.

rainfall pushes the mnnfh'y fdfni In .1 40 inchos, which pm lirulariy At this in than HI inches ni cajn tiad recorded for the month. Jury Selection In Montgomery Trial Will Start Today LLANO, May 18 tlon of a jury that must determine whether Regenald M. Montgomery of Waco is guilty of a murder charge in the Buchanan Lake death of Mrs. Helen Shields, ahso of Waco, is to begin here Monday morning. The ha.s not yet announced what penalty it will seek in the trial of the former service station operator and used car dealer.

It will contend he so badly beat Mrs. Shields that she died of her injuries. Her battered and brui.sed body was founrf in his automobile, which was mired in at the edge of the giant lake 17 miles from Llano, May Ask ContinuAnce II. S. Beard of Waco, in revealing defense strategy that it will seek to prove Mr.s.

jumped from the Montgomery car and that he was carrying her to medical aid when the car became mired. Heal'd said the defense 3 Killed as Plane Plunges Into Baseball Contest 3,500 Persons at Iowa Airshow See Tragedy BURLINGTON, Iowa, May Navy pilot and two schoolboys were killed and six young persons seriously injured today when a fighter plane w'ent out of control at an airshow and crashcd cn a playground. More than 3..500 persons at the airshow saw the Corsair fighter zoom low across the Airport during a mock formation raid. It went into a of barrel rolls, then to go out of control and crashed and burned on the grounds where 14 youngsters were playing ball. The dead schoolboys were identified as Ronald Hagemeier, 16, and Jimmy Grant, 16.

Lieutenant Commander Bart Slattery, public relations officer of Lambert Field, Louis, said the pilot of the plane was Lieutenant (jg) John Peeler, of Mrs. Ethel Peeler, of St. The Naval Re.serve air show was being staged by 35 planes from Lambert Field, St. Louis, to signal the opening of National Naval Week. crash occurred just 15 min- utf's aftei the had opencMf with a low level simulated on the field.

The saw the go down behiml a of trees north of the field. the smoke billowed up. C'ort Klein, city editor of the Burlington Hawkeye-( Naval officers estimated that the plane was going from 3.50 to 4(X) miles an hour when It crashed. Two Marlin Youths Die In Motorcycle Mishap Here Severe Quake Recorded SYDNEY, Australia, May IH Riverview ObseKatory yesterday recorded a severe quake near the Kermadec Islands, northea.st of New Zealand. "Hie shocks lasted for three houns, beginning about 5 p.

m. Father an earthquake expert, believed the earthquake was under water. He its intensity was sufficient to cause widespread death and destruction if it had been on land. Lucile Gleason Dies HOLLYWOOD, May IS AP Lucile Webster Gleason. wife I of an actor and mother of an ac- I tor.

who teamed with them on stage and screen through of her life, was found dead in today. Wife of James Gleason, she apparently was the victim of a heart ailment prevalent since the tragic death of their son. Russell, in a from a New York hotel last December. See JURY SELECTION, Page 5 S. Kahn Is Dead DALLAS.

May IH AP Laurence Kahn. .50, president of IVL Kahn and Company and longtime civic leader of Dallas, died today at his home. He was the son of the late E. M. Kahn, pioneer Dallas merchant who flioff in 1923 just a year before his clothing store's fiftieth anniversary.

On the dfath of his father the younger Kahn became president of the firm and has continued at the helm ever since. Atom Station Planned LO.NI)ON. Monday, May 19 AP Britain's first atomic power station, a hu're plant designed to pro- to 1 the Daily Expre.ss said today in a story by PMitor Chapman from uranium, is built at Drigg in Cumberland, his complete recovery. Hal Chase, One Of Great, Dies in California COLUSA, Mav 18 Fabulous Harold (Hal) Chase. 64.

regarded by many as the greatest defensive first ba.seman of all time, died in Memorial Hospital to lay from a kidney ailment that had undermined his health since 1941. The former New York Yankees start, who revolutionized tho style of play for first basemen during the height of his career the first decade of the century, the last fpw numths of his in the only a stout fighting heart keeping him alive. He rallied from a c(mia last March but no hope was held ifoi Crash Brings Year Toll in County to 9 Two Marlin youths were killed early Sunday afternoon wlien the motorcycle they were riding overturned (he 67 on Highway throwing them Into jin autoinohile. Johnnie Lee Franklin, 19. operator i)f the machine, w'as killed instantly.

His address is Box 164, Marlin. J. L. Densman. 14, 313 Bridge Street.

Marlin, riding with Frankum. died about 1:30 in Hillcrest Hospital, about 30 minutes after the accident. Attendants said he received Injuries, On Way to Races State Highway Patrolmen J. D. Warren and Jess Askey, who investigated, said the youths were evidently going to the motorcycle races at track near the highway intersection and Bosque Boulevard.

Warren the motorcycle pas.s**d one but evl- ilently got out of control when tlic youths tried to reduce their speed and they were thrown off to the left under a car driven by Curtis Rae Pace, 1629 Blackland Village, who was going W'arren rejiorted Pace as saying one of the youths hit his left front fender and the other was thrown under his vehicle. Pace said he was driving about 35 miles an hour. Ambulance carried Densman to the hospital and removed body. Three 'I'he two deaths brought McLennan traffic for the year to nine and were the and third from nu)torcycle accidents. Marlin W'ilson, 19 year old, Nanty-(ilo, youth, was the last fatality.

He died April 10 from injuries received the night before when his motorcycle went out of control and struck a curb at North and Bosque Boulevard. His death ended record of 142 deathless days this year. Funeral Set Frankum was the of Mr. anrl Mr.s. Hen Frankum of Marlin, Ilcsidc.s his parents, he Is survived by one brother, Louis; two sisters, Mrs.

Donald and Mr.s. William of Ma rlin. Funeral services will be held at Adams Home in Marlin at 4 p. m. Monday with burial in Calvary Cemetery.

Young Densman Is survived by his parent.s, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Densman: two Barbara Anne and Linda June; his grand- C. S. Densman and Mr.

and Mrs. William G. Van Cleve, all of Marlin. Funeral services for Densman will be held at 10 a. m.

Tuesday at Adams Funeral Home. Saves Concert From Bee Swarm When of on a Cotton band concert In the Square at Memphis, the croud scattered for cover. But a policeman who knows his bees, Patrolman .1. E. stepped in to save the day.

After some Kentle persuasion he got the queen bee and her subjcts interested in a nearby tree; said he suffered only six stings. Above, the bees seem particularly interested in the rlRht shoulder and leg. (AP Officer Who Squealed On Buddies to Japs Gets Hush-Hush Trial (MiHm pul SwuJhr r.r-y Mr. V- ri sur- a.mp 11 ad that n. a and (if in the I III HI til I It hi I ri.

.1 1 II. in lunj 1 '1 11 l4l. ui I rv'i nnt sVightK than estimated. The figures show the crop totaled bales of pounds weiglit compared viith an estimate of OOi) 'I'he pre-war average was bales. Housing Slump Seen WASIIINirrON.

18 AP licprcscntat Gahagan Douglas. Democrat of California, reported signs of a housing and urged a igoi ous housing Declaring housing industry ha simply pricer! its. 'f out of the saifi in a state- that fie impetus is seijiiiil full and Military Film Will He Shown I'onight ('olftnel John W. Anderson, di- lerti.r cif at ('ulver Military and Vei ner II. Houston, head of Culver A will present movies of the academy and Summer school activities at Hamilton Hou tonight at Fi rmer and friends of the schon! are invitefl to attend.

Frog Leftps (fver I lo in la vorns f' IH A stout-legged jumping' dubbod 'r. W. A. by ner Mer- iUn Fisher 14 feet, 4 inches ito ihe of ttie 2Ut ti annual jumping frog juhilee at jthr Coiintv Fnir in Ihis tmui A iif StiM'k- Nweep the three top piares but faU crack Ibe of 16 feet, 2 inches set bv their Maggie in 1944. Chase, born at 0 broke Into organized baseball with the Los Angele.s team of the Pacific i'oast League in 1904.

lith, manager of to New' York the tollowinK year, where he remained through- None in hig league baseball could field like the lefthanded If fault, it wjis tliat he was never on the i)ag when the ball was thrown. But lie ufl.s thrjv when the hall arrived Martial l.aw Declared NANKING, May 18 inrrrnslni: Cnnimunist offonsivo in MnnrUmin (ntccd (ho tit t-tiptlal nty t'huriK- ehuti. I'liinng Kai-shek angrily told C'hinese their demonstrations were ('ommunist-instigatefl and would be sternly suppressed. Three Are Injured In Two Wrecks Near Here 'riiree persons were injured in two traffic accidents near Waco late Saturday night and early Sunday morning. Dodd, of 3509 North Twenty-seconrl suffered rib and shoulder fractures when his car through a bridge Navy Says Nothing Of Pearson Charges WASHINGTON, May 18 Radio commentator Drew Pear.son said tonight that the Navy Is now' trying Lt.

Comdr. Edward N. Little of Monrovia, in a court-martial at which ne.sses have accused him of to the Japs on his fellow while in a Jap prison camp. In his regular weekly broadcast (ABC), Pear.scm said that Little has been accu.sed of turning in tw'o of his fellow-prisoners for violating Jap pri.son rules and that both were starved to death. But Little, he said, reportedly Is being tried merely for conduct unbecoming an officer.

Navy Has The Navy confirmed that Little W'as being tried in a court martial at the Naval gun factory here. But It refused to discuss the charges against him, and had on statement. Pearson that the incidents to which he referred took place Pilot Is Tougher Than His WASlllNG'rON, May 18 AP 'I'he Army Air Forces, after busine.ss with accelerometers and other gaflgets, announced today that man is tougher the airplane he flies. An AAF statement reduced the idea to this simplicity: man might jump from a second story window- and, after dusting himself off, w'alk away unscathed. If, however, a strongly built, modern airplane is dropped the same distance, it probably will be W'ithout disclosing whether the AAF ever has tried dropping any airplanes out of second story windows, the service discusses the technicalities of force.

This is the factor for the momentary multiplication of weight when an airjilane in a sharp dive pulls upward in a tight curve. See 'miAL, Page 5 See DIE, Page Thousands Flee Riots LAHORK, India, May Thousands of persons fled from Ljihoro, provincial capital of the Punjab, today, seeing to escape honil) niul hrickhnt hotwppn i il It'jt I'l li ff A iPneket. now av eral tinies during the day in tempts to halt the riotous street battle.s. It was the 50th day of communal rioting in Lahore. Type Laudinfl Gear Will Enable Planes To Land 'Almost WASHINirrON, May 18 AP The Army Air Forces said tonight that track-type landltig gear for transport airplanes will permit the landing of troops and equipment anywhere on the without using a regular airfield.

The belt-like endless tread similar to a tractor and in- iin nil throo legs of a friiftiniiUi: fii- a 1 iipment 1 at- I The' makes it possible for a heavy plane to land on dirt, mud or sand without previous surfacing of an airstrip. Tanker Burns in Texas City Harbor; Only Few Persons Gather to Watch Fire Fighters This Time Miinnier cool. hy at Lowich lothiers 416 'FEXAS CriT, May 18 UP A roaring aboard the gasoline burnetl for than four liours cuily six iilocks from the last waterfront disaster starlerl it w.ts hrouglit under control. lives were hist and only two persons were burned. crew, about 45 officers and men, escaped the roaring flames by leajiing overboard into the bay.

'I'wo men alumrd the tug which nmved alongside to help in battling the inferno on the tanker, was burned seriously. Stormy Sunday Morning Police Chief William L. Ladish said there was no panic among the townspeople, nor was their any flagrant display (if the curiosity which co-t so lives in the April 16 blast. In that one. I first, like just another ship fire.

Dozens of curious were killed when the cargo of nitrate exploded without warning. It was a morn! ing. A severe electrical was I III progre.ss when the fire first was Lspottcfl in the of the Pan-Massachusetts at approximately 7:30 a. raising the possibility that a bolt of lightning struck the ves.sel. Polii-e ('hlef William L.

Ladish. who the on-shore of the fire-fighting, saifI, he had been unable to find anyone who actually saw the fire start. A Coast Guard fire boat from flalveston and Pan American Refining owner of the vessel, sent men into the bay to help fight the blaze. The 'I'exas Fire Department, whose personnel was decimated in the of the French freighter the Gi andcamp trouble looked, at Gi andcliarnp hich touched off raging fire that threatened the entire waterfront and killed hundreds of persiuis on April 16. sent of efjuijtment and 75 men to the waterfront.

Very IJItIr Curiosity Twice during the morning, the fir appearcfl be under control. Each time, however, if blazed up in new fury, sending flames roaring .300 feet into the air. It was extinguished finally at 11 Ladish said was confined to tanks in forward section. Pan-American officials were not available imnu'diately for details. Their guards to permit reporters or spectators into the dock area.

It could have been a fire of disastrous proportions if tlu' had split and spread burn- iiiir gasoline on the waters. 'The F'ire Department fought the with foamite, A Coast guard fire boat played water on the sides of the to keep it cooler! down. The forward part of the ship was blackened by the fire and the bridge showed of the heat from the blazing gasoline, hut otherwise the repoitedly was little damaged and considered Littered With Debris 'Fhe 'I'exas City clock area, torn to shreds by blast of the Grandcamp and High Flyer in the April explosion, was still littered with debris today as firefighters fought their way to the dock side. Bulldozers were working today, scooping steel plates, automobile and debris from thi' scene. Railroad cars still lay where they were tos.sed by the blast of the Grandcamp and an ocean-going barge that was blown out of the water still was high and dry.

U. s. to Press For Quick Action On Global Police Plan LAKE N. May 18 AP 'I'he Uniti'd will press for Immediate Council action on for a force, recently side-tracked by United Nations discussions of Palestine and Greece, an American source said today, 7'he fir.st rejjort of the Military SInff on nn Amy, it I V. i fh.in 1 rt! of I ple has laid dormant the piled-up Council table since May 1.

Seek to lla.sten Debate Western Electric Wage Dispute May Cause Tieup Today Picket Lines Be Respected by Union Employes Off job In 8 Texas Citii's Negotiations Pushed For Knding Dispute Another stoppage in telephone service, within less than 48 hours after the end of a 4ri-day tieup, loomed Sunday for Waro as members of the still-striking A.ssociation of Communication and Equipment Work ers prepared to throw picket lines around the Southwestern Bell Telephone Building Monday. Members of the Southwestern Telephone Workers Union, who returned to their jobs at 10:25 p. m. Saturdav, will not cross the ACEW picket lines. Mrs.

Elma Doherty, local union strike director, announced Sunday. Thus would Waco phone service be disrupted again. The turn of events In the Waco communication problem came Sunday as National I'nion, a of Western Electric Installation Men, ordered In New Vork that picket lines be and strengthened tomorrow throuKh- out the nation until their Is settled. Mrs. Doherty said the picket line would probably be thrown around the building at 7 a.

m. would again be without full telephone service by a. m. w'hen the shift of operators on duty at 7 left their jobs, she indicated. Many of the girls, she said, would probably leave their jobs as soon as they learned that the AGEW picket was in effect.

W. P. Clark, local manager of the company, said if the operators failed to report to work at any time during the day, service would be limited to extreme emergency people believe the strike Is he explained. will be using their telephones as In normal times and we will have even less supervisory employes on duty to handle The communications equipment workers are holding out for a $6 weekly raise in pay. improved working conditions arid a transfer allowance.

Fred Dougherty, chairman of the local AGEW, stated, local union leader said he had received no definite information ci)ncerning the time for setting up a picket. Service Interrupted In Eight Texas Cities By the Associated Press The As.sociation of Communication Equipment workers placed picket lines around telephone exchanges in eight Texas cities today, interrupting telephone service. W. L. Prehn, general manager of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, that the ACEW workers, who are on strike against the Western Klectric Company, placed picket lines around his company's exchanges in Houston, San Antonio, Beaumont, Galveston, Orange, Brownsville, Harlingen anrf McAllen, and that telephone operators refused to cross the picket lines.

'nie picket lines today were up by striking of the Western F'lectric Company, whose is being installed in Southwestern Bell Telephone Company Exchanges. Although most dispute.s in the National telephone strike have settled that of the against the Western Electric is still in effect. wore indications that the interrufition of telephone service See WACO FACES, Page 8 The American delegation made a preliminary effort to hasten debate by asking that the ropoit be placed on the agenda for the first May meeting. However. insistence on discussing (ireece first pushed it off and the heavy Palestine held down adilitional meetings.

Now' the United States has been represented as feeling that the should devote alternate ineefing.s, if the Greek case and the military report. report was Ifi months in coming and contains the liasic Page 5 Next Plane Named May blue eagle a yellow beak will replace the some time this Summer for President travei.s, 'Fhe new high-speed White have a special paint job to distinguish it from other ships flying the air- lanes. Unless the rlecision is changed, it will hear the name jointly honoring the revolutionary United States and the Pre.sident’s home town in Mis- iouri. Buyer iSeiids Lard Prim Skidding Sharply CHICAGO, May buyers displaying what one packer today described as lord is accumulating in cold age warehouses and prices have dropped to the former OP A ceiling level. the past several this packer said, the lard market has been hit by that consumers' resistance one hears so much about.

want to build up supplies for fear of being caught by a further drop in lard was quoted on the Chicago Board of Trade Saturday at a hundred pounds, low- i'st price i)f the year. This compares with a ceiling of $18.30 before OPA maximums were lifted last year. today is at wholesale at about one-third less than what if costs us to buy ir when walking around on the a spoke.snian lor the American Meat Institute About 15 per cent of the dressed weight of a hog consists of lard. The Institute spokesman that, although lard is an edible products, price has declined to a point where tjuite considerable quantities have been sold to Ifiirrv if you want a lating Eskimo Fan at only 721 I.