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Waco Sunftap erilnnii I 4 XX 54 PAGES WACO TEXAS SUNDAY JULY 18 1948 Special instate (The Waco News tribune and 1'he Waco Times Herald) SINGLE COPY 10c NUMBER 48 Russia Pressing Berlin Crisis Close to War wo Governors Named to Lead Dixiecrat ight Efforts to Switch I 7000 Yards of Cement Will inish Jah I Snn tlwrn Dpmnc Id irst Of 7000 Yards of Cement Will finish Job 29 Commander Welcomed in England Wacoan leaves Air orce 1 Czechs Claim See BERLIN CRISIS Page 8 Reds Boost en at successfully developing our communique See JERUSALEM Page 3 See TEXAS POLITICS Page 5 or Comedy Hit tope Weather of of here his father Politburo HotHcads Believed in Control" Big Push Begins This Week in Texas Politics be in tomor caucus had could only to the peo Democratic Jerusalem ight Ends War Goes On in Other Parts of Palestine race oxer Summer Company Moves Outdoors unchanged fryer by the Reds May Want New War Now The Moscow radio had several times recently on the ratedtpanion of Russia's commercial airlines Xj Enforcement Of Cease ire Is Studied Put Thurmond In Presidential Race Anti Truman Battle Planned in 15 States LS Lawich Clotkien Ar CAIRO July ighting stopped in Jerusalem today but the war roared on elsewnere in Pales tine tumultuous agreement will never on racial of the commen record with words used by President on his recent Western Texas Electors To Thurmond Due entitled Mar Twisters in Colorado STERLING Colo July AP Small uprooted trees and razed smalt buildings here early today and through the Shortening Price Cut CINCINNATI July 17 The Proctor and Gamble Co an nounced today a two cent a pound reduction in the wholesale price of Crisco vegetable shortening ef fective immediately The reduction "reflect th downward trend in the cost of vegetable oils used in the product" the company said the rear of a whose driver an attempt to the road The victim Bourghs identified as an emplovc of the Southwestern Bell Teh' 1 phone Driver of the truck was her uncle iscruggs also Houston United Nations Commission to during more CIO lays Record Of Congress In for Voters WASHINGTON July The CIO today published a "voting guide" on the 80th Congress and urged heavy balloting in Novem ber elect a set of lawmaker sponsive to the needs of the peo ple" The labor organization claiming more than 6000000 members summed up a bitter denunciation of record with almost the same Truman tour: Poles Spurn Tito Reds i 4" 1 Communist Comin form Waco Markettrad upply small BUM MP Butcher hors Hens 22c 25c 40c ib Grade A eggs candled eggs 40c A land July 17 AP Giant Superfortresses flying with fully loaded guns zoomed into British bases today in a spectacular display of Amer air might They were manner! chiefly by combat hardened crews They touched down at Scampton Wad dington and Mnrham ields on the western edge of East the flat country from which the 1 Air orce mntintcii it World War II air attacks against Germany Those fields were chosen as bases because of the length of their run five days in Central aze eligible for service under the draft 28 Beau Girl Killed When Driver Swerves To Run Over Snake NACOGDOCHES July UP A 20 year old Houston girl was killed today when she pitched from picK up type truerf swerved sharply in run over a snake in cream oc cream7c lh milk 6 2 5 471 5 cwt Bulk oats A5c bu wheat bu ear corn SlM per 75 lb School Tax Okehed EDDY July 17 SPL Voters of the Bruceville Eddy School Dis trict voted DO to 1 Saturday to ron inue a school maintenance tax of fifrv rnt The tax had been In f'ct for ty "25 years but record of it was lvt and the ier tion was held to make the tax official DEATW BLOOMIELD WRS CHARLOTT BRINK LONZO VALXNTTNX Car Log Truck Crash JASPER" July Three persons were killed and five others ere seriously injured today when a car end a log truck collided nc don 3U miles south The dead: Armond Wilkerson mont Austin Wilkerson 56 who lives in Pine Grove Newton County Henry Stephenson about 30 of Bon Weir Newton County driver of the truck State policemen said the log truck hurst into flame two vehicl collided and Stephen on was burned to death Connolly I the Eastern Atlantic i uere terran an ordered mcr ase wre Jones and hot today toniaht and Mn dv A scattered attemnoa thunder Jboyera Maximum today Minimum tontcht 75 At 7:30 a the river ataxe vaa S3 feet thirtnr the preceding 34 hourt the maximum temperature vas 07 dexre i at 5 Minimum 77 decree at a Raia none Total rain for month A year aso the maximum temperature vac 103 decrees Minimum decreea kc 1 3 33 Sunset today 34 Sunrise tomor row 5:37 a Moonrise today 5:10 Moonset tomorrow 3:01 a ull moon on July 30 at 3:31 I In Air Corridor eared by Experts 29s Land At Major Candidates To Bring Campaign Here By The Asaociated Press The big push is on this week in Texas politics This is the week when candi dates for all the public offices from highest to lowest Sen ator to local precinct chairman make their final fervent pleas for votes at the Democratic primary election Saturday July 24 On a statewide scale interest in me 0 oenate shadows that in the contest Having roared back and forth from East Texas to West Texas Valiev durinr recent weeks the Three" in the fight for the junior place will concentrate their efforts me next Texas Will Visit Big Cities Both George Peddy and Lyndon 4 IJU1 I Will of ort Worth Waco San Antonio I 1 Coke Ste Dallas 111 Survivors Alonzo Valentine Brink 82 died at his home on Route 2:30 Saturday left 111 vivors Mr Brink had lived in Waco for the pa 35 years He is survived by his widow nf Waco: five daughters Mrs IL Issetter MrsG Knight Mrs I assetter Mrs Herbelin and Mrs Paul Wood ail of Waco five sons A A and Doyle Brink all ol Waco cn si ter Mrs Alice Cook of Duncan Okla five broth Jake Artie and Ed Brink all of am and Ollie Brink nf Lubbock: 77 grandchildren and 24 great granchildren land the Mediterranean ordered de stroyer squadron six diverted from its voj5 home after taking part In the Naval Academv'i prac tice cruise rom Captain I aurenre Hugh rost squadron commander who personally led the boarding party came this report: the radioman oouDtiui sent out the LONDON and information about a mu I 1 i Wo'keri tiny and then at time unknown I Partv Joined other Paettae 4 I vitation to attend the Yugoslav Partv Congres jnv 21 the Polish press agercy reported English Bases Guns ully Loaded Bomb Bays Empty Col John Henry (center) commander nf the 1T 2Mh Bomber Group is welcomed by Air Vice Marshal Charles Guest (right) after landing at Scampton Lincolnshire England with the first of 60 Superfortress bombers in the greatest show of fk air might in Europe since the end of the war At the left is Lt CoL Kenneth Steele sghadron commander" (AP Wirephete via radio from London) that remains to complete the job are 1000 yards of cement at 805 a yard How It All Started That where the public enters the picture but behind the fast moving scene is the following story a storv without names at the request of the originators who dismissed the preliminaries w'ith a statement we want is a swimming pool for those bovs not publicity or honors for ourselves" It all started because a Wacoan needed a good many vards of dirt He was driving out Clay passing the Waco Boys Club where the former Blackland Army Air ield gymnasium is being restored on the club property There the idea was born "If I need he thought can I excavate a hole for a swimming pool and why we start the ball Others Donate Materials In two time a contractor agreed to build the pool at no charge for his services a lumber man donated 5000 feet of lumber for the forms a plumber furnished material and his labor a steel company started cutting the steel at cost a gravel pit slashed the cost of gravel and a cement mix ing company offered a substantial donation In 72 hours approximately S17 000 worth of labor and material had been assured and the excava tion for a swimming pool which will be 75 feet by 36 feet (regu lation shimming tournament size) was started as bug exed members of the club watched amaze ment Now 1f Wacoan will buy 1000 yards of cement at 805 a yard and will start mailing their checks immediately to A lowers irst National Bank who agreed to han dle the fund a $25000 swimming pool complete with chlorinating equipment will be operating al most immediately Urge Part for Everyone 'There Is no reason why any one Wacoan should buv more than five yards of one of the Wacb Boys Club directors stated Saturday as he watched the proj ect grow sure there are enough people who can see the value of this great civic project that thev would want to partici pate and the directors want every one to have a Th swimming pool profect started spontaneously by the Waco business men who have made the first donations of labor and ma terial is one of which Waco Boys Club directors have dreamed but was too far bevond their budget to anticipate The club funds are presently tied up in the gymnasium project Alleghenv Ludlum Steel Pittsburgh Steel and Portsmouth armer ound Dead CORSICANA July A farmer who had been shocking cut grain was found dead in his hay field at noon today He was Roy Harris about 55 of the Barry community He died a short time after taking a drink of neighbors said Justice of the Peace A oster conducted an investigation hut did not return a verdict im mediately aran Meanwhile 161000 of th 18 year old group can volunteer for a special one year term of duty in the armed force The Army Navy and Air or: will begin accepting enlistments from 18 year olds beginning next Wednesday July 2L over the more cautious members These two theories are being dis cussed by Government policy mak ers: 1 The Russians may be pro pelled into rash actions by tear that they are losing ground in Eastern Europe and need a spec tacular victory to recover The Russians may want war They might have decided that they could quickly sweep over Europe this year before American rearm ament is well under way and be fore Western European economic and military strength are restored One highly placed authority re ported that the Russians appeared to be misjudging entirely the de termination of the Western Pow ers to stick in Berlin He with held Jhe use of his name If this analysis is correct It means a complete failure tn date of the Amei ican British rench diplomatic effort to impress on the Kremlin the firmness of their Berlin poliis The Russian block ade of Berlin has continued Experts ear Blundering Since the end of the last war State Department and military ex perts here have generally taken the line that a new conflict with Russia could only result from blundering by one side or the other in the "cold Berlin hns al ways been regarded as one if th dancer points: others have includ ed Vienna and Trieste Almost exactly two years ago there wax a similar feeling of tn sion among top Government offi cials over the shooting down by Yugoslav fighters of two Ameri can transport planes Demanding The spirit which has kept this masque so alive and entertaining lies in its appeal to the dreamer in each of us whatever his age We all have within us a 'world of dream and a world of fact woven bv wish and hope So doe Shakespeare mingle the 'fairy kingdom of Obemn Titaniaand ork with human world! Army Spy Plot Smashed PRAGUE Czechoslovakia July 17 UP Th Government today announced the anest of 79 es pionage agent charged with work ing for the Army Counter intelligence Corps nnd said It had broken the hack nf a plot to as sassinate "six prominent and unleash violence In the coun it An official communique charged the American Armv In Germany had helped organize Czech refugee there into and "espio bands Police here were able to track down "large quan tities" of arms and ammunition in the hands of the alleged under ground groups the Government de clared It was the first big roundup of opoosition elements In Czechoslo vakia since the Communists took power 'Ihe slaying of Communist Chief Augustin Sram on May 27 and the confusion of his alleged slayer put police on the trail nf th nd vig Svoboda Minister of National Defense wa to have been assassi nated next the communiou added Svbod death was to have been the signal for "the murder of several more political and military and the start of a violent rnonst ration against the It is) the record of one of the worst organizations in this An accompanying statement by CIO President Philip Murray said: all the people or a substan tial majority of them use their precious democratic rights this No vember we can change the com plexion of Congress If the people vote they will get a Con gress" 'Die consisted of the vot ing record of Senators and Repre Sce LAYS CONGRESS Page 4 PITTSBURGH July UP Belhlethem Sl 1 Corp following the lead of II SteI Corp today granted a third round wage incras averaging 11 cents an hour to Its em ployes A flood nf wage Increase an wax expected nxt week from the other basic steel Republic Steel Corp haw an nounced it would match the in i crease for its 4Z750 employ eS whoare members ol the Weirton Inde iruon inc a 14 cent hourly wage Increase Other steelmaker who an Dccidc on Showdown? DES MOINES Iowa July 17 AP The United States and England have decided on a show down with Russia to achieve a peaceful settlement even at the risk of war Gardner Cowles said tonight In a dispatch from England to lhe Des Moines Register Cowles is president of the Register and Tribune Co and president of Look Magazine Desire for Spectacular Europe Victory Seen By The AMM iatei Prrxs High United States offi cials expressed belief last night that Russia is pressing the Berlin crisis dangerously close to war These officials now rate high the possibility of one or mure I Eighth ucnuiy incinr nis in trie air corri dors through which American and British planes are ferrying sup plies to Berlin Th Russians have announced they will make exten sive training flights across these routes Hot Heads in Control? Many American officials in Washington feel that hot heads in the all powerful Russian Polit buro have gained the upper hand and I aughlin Stel Corp 28JZX) employes Youngstown Sheet and Tub Co 21W) Inland Steel Corp Corp 12500 Corp 8100: Steel Co 4000 BIRMINGHAM July AP Defiant Dixie Demo crats named two Southern Governors today to head a campaign to defeat Mr Tru man in the Solid South in November Strom Thurmond 45 of South Carolina was Chosen as Presiden tial candidate ielding Wright 53 of Mississippi was named for Vice President Angered over what both candi dates termed "a stab in the at the Democratic convention ear lier this week the meeting gave shouting to assertions the South surrender local control issues No Claims of Victory The message on civil rights and the Philadelphia con endorsement of it were the primary reasons for this re gional revolt Neither candidate made any claim of victory but both promised to show the national party real Democratic Party is in the Campaigns were planned in 15 States including Missouri home of Mr Truman The resolution nominating the two men alsn called another meet ing of Southern revolters here Oct 1 Unlike today's session the Octo See TWO GOVERNORS Page 3 Marshall Rejects Atomic Proposal as WASHINGTON July Secretary of State George Mar shall said tonight Pussia's propos als for world control of atomic energy are a "sham" designed to strip the United States atomic bomb "without surate Tn a biting report "Policy at the Crossroads shall blamed the Soviet Union for failure of the Atomic Energy reach agreement than 200 meetings in the past two years Unyielding Soviet pursuit of its present policy on atomic energv he warned might lead to World War III Marshall said Russia's minority nrogr am approved by Poland and lhe Ukraine in th commivinn is supported nnlv by political techniques of the Soviet which are completely miliar across the beard of inter national relations" Reviewing Soviet policv on atomic energv Marshall said th Russians reject the majoritv plan for an international authority with Dowers Of ownershin tion management and inspection of atomic processes Th United such powers essential to real control Dixiecrat ight In State Being Mapped BIRMINGHAM Ala July 17 AP Members ot a Texas delegation to the rights convention said tonight an effort will be made to switch Texas electors from President Truman Io the Thurmond Wright ticket here today Lloyd Price of ort Worth made the announcement after a caucus of the delegation at the Tutwiler Hotel following the convention ormer Judge Merritt Gib son Longview said the no official status and make recommendations £le and to the Stale xecutive Committee Merritt added that these recom mendations will be made Merritt said that when the Texas Democratic Committee meets to canvass returns from the Tyly 24 primary it could recommend a teferendum on the swdtch The Ixmgview delegate said elec tors pledged to Gov Thurmond could then be placed on the bal lot along with those for Truman These Texans at Meet BIRMINGHAM Ala July AP Persons registering today at tha States rights convention in cluded: Texas Mrs Cora Thompson Robert I Bradley Hugh Brant ley James Taylor David Thompson Edward Tlinmpson Townes Palmer Bradley Ralph Lee all of Houston Mar lin Row Mrs I Wright Barnett Mrs Carlton Dallas Hamil ton Roger loyd Price Arch Rowan ort Worth Mr and Mrs George I Charlton Magdalene Charlton Tomball Horace Blalock Marshall: Merritt Gibson Long view 1 Long Kilgore Twin engined planes bombed Tel Aviv in seven sorties today the Israeli government announced One of the raiders was shot down the announcement said Six per sons were reported killed and 20 wounded Israeli plan struck at Arab troep concentrations and commu nications in the Tulkarm area of Central Palestine and at Syrian concentrations at Mishmar and Hay Yardem in Northern Galilee Count olk Bernadotte neadd for the Holy Land with the belief that the Arabs will accept the United Nations cease fire order before the three dav time limit (expires Sunday Israel accepted the cease fire yesterday provided I the Arabs agree But there Is little expectation Jets in Greenland NARSARSSANK Greenland July 17 UP Sixteen Air orce jet fighter planes arrived today i uni rovs nay Laoraaor route to Germany in the trans Atlantic crossing ever tern ted bv American lets The planes averaged 4233 miles I an hour during the 776 miie hop i here from Goose Bar The weath er was perfect Aid Shipments Due WASHINGTON July Marshall Plan shipments totaling $26562534 were authorized tonight by Peul Hoffman economic co operation administrator Hospital Proposal In Hill County Is Apparently Beaten HILLSBORO Jury SPL Hill County voters today appar ently turned down a proposal that the counts increase its tax rate to brnirl Kara Returns from 25 of the 40 and others consider Lion in TJSA rminfi lato urday night showed the proposal officials estimated there were only Mutiny Mystery Solved 60 voles in the 15 unreported sSkre Crazed Radioman Sends Phoney Hillsboro voter approved ere Jumps Overboard to Death' The structure wrmM a a Til: 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 33 i i I i 19 mnH TS will a Ai 1 xmancea ov a tax increase of 15 vrni nn aiii a Kin Jit inn I cihties in the hospital would have ben to all countv resi de nts regardless of color or creed Election officials reported an un usually heavy Negro vote in some areas 4 Sc doz No 1 doz No 2 eggs sue j659000 Bethlehem 5UC Steel Employes Jet Aircraft IXJNDON July AP Nikolai Bulganin Armed orces Minister of i the Soviet Union said tonight Rus Sia is muniengmeo ana jet nropeiJed the Moscow radio said The broadcast heard in Jxmdon said Bulganin had broadcast an Aviation Day order calling nn Russian airmen to continue "strnztheninz th might nf the Air ore of the (7 I a I I H13 order was brief and address Communist regime ZX XT 4 flk I 4 I worker well a mihtarv flvrs I i ne 5ios ow raaio saia wishes to both groups cesses in the sphere further development of modern' aviation I Hershey Gets Old Job Back as Head Of Draft System ASHINGTON Julv Major Gen Lewis Hershey got his old icb back today director of Selective Service again fnrmal mAnt by President Truman was another hpre the Arabs will obey the iowara nannnai prepareaness as unrest in Europe continued The task of assembling manpow is one ith which Hershey is highly familiar irst Named In 1941 He first was appointed director of Selective Service in 1941 and was responsible for setting up organization under which 10000 000 men eventually were supplied the armed forces and under which sore 36000000 men were registr ed and classified for military serv ice This time Hershev' prime job is the registration of youths 18 through 25 under the new peace time draft act An executive order dealing wlh resisirauon will oe issuea President Truman next week White House announced Order Nat Disclosed The order in which various groups will be called among I has not vet been disclosed Registration of males from 13 through 25 is expected to oegin about Auz 16 Only those between the azes of Tradition expects everv good reviewer to do his duty bv Wil liam Shakespeare It expects him to bemuse the public with refer ences to Theobald's edition of 17X3 to disclose that the plot was I adapted from an old Assyrian folk Isong and to throw in a snappy paragraph on five stress iambic I verse In brief the longer the ses sion at tha nuhlic lihran th ter the review But the enchantment the pleas iant spell which Shakespeare cast oyer a delighted audience last night at the Southwest Summr Theatre moonlight opening of Midsummer Night Dream" ean i not be found in footnotes The boxoffice rush which tne success ful opening predicts for the next week cannot be explained by an analysis of Elizabethan grammar 15 1 United States Navy logged today pas dead a the story of "mutiny" aboard the A' 4 a 1 44 me orres for 1 work or an apparently crazed ra dioman who sent out a phony SOS then jumped overboard to his death Naval headquarters here report ed a Navy boarding party from the United States destroyer George Mackenzie late yesterday clam ered aboard th William Carson approximately Dr' miles west of the Azores to find an orderly but surprised crew ive davs azo nnrtht nf tn A 3 3LC nLLZi Carson I "Th master of the William Car ashen th messages Ison states the rrw best he Crew mutinous tannot con ever sailed ith" Boys Club to Get New Swim Pohl as Result Of Spontaneous Gift A generous civic enterprise which was initiated in rapid order last week is heading toward a whirl wind finish almost before the news caught up with developments: and if Wacoans respond to the spirit of the movement Waco Bovs Club members will be splashing this Summer in a $25000 swimming pool on club property at 13th and Clay Seventeen thousand dollar of the swimming pool development already has been obtained and all Most Voters Think Candidates Spend Above Legal Limit By JOE BELDEN Director The Texas Poll AUSTIN Julv 17 An over whelming majority of Texas voters is of the opinion that the law limiting campaign expenditures of candidates for United States Sen ator Ls being evaded Most voters say this law ought to be enforced Recently one of the candidates in the Senate race Clark of College Station wanted to know how some of the other candidates could use so much radio time with out exceeding the limit on cam paign expenses Earlier former Congressman Martin Dies with drew from the race because he said be could not make a winning campaign unless he spent more than the law allows MM9 Limit Bet The State law provide that no candidate for Governor or United States Senator acting person al lv or through managers may spend more than $8000 on his campaign preceding the first primary To sound out public opinion on the policy of the law and the prac See BELDEN POLL Page 2 Bomb Bajs Empty 'Tlte Superforts bomb bays were empty When i he planes landed the gunners carefully removed the belts of ammunition from the gun fccdwHxs The crew were confined to their bases for 48 hours No ex planation was gicn The first 48 of the bombers ar rived todav A dozen more are still to come from Goose Bay Labra dor with the next arrival due at dawn Air orce officials said servicing crews at Goose Bay were too small to get all 60 planes off today Some of the Superforts were di verted to Prestwick Scotland Ten landed at Waddington Twenty came In at Marhain and 12 at Scampton '1'he first arrivals land ed In bright sunlight but those that arrived tonight landed in a drizzling rain Lt Carl Stucki of Portland Ore a navigator on one of the late arrivals said his plan flew through "strictly bad weather soup all the On Exercise Officially the Superforts the ane which seared the heart of many Japanese cities during the war are on a routing navigational training exercise Six squadron of the 28th Group from Rapid Citv oi from Lield la are involved Officers who made the flight treated it as a coincidence that tha move came at a time of rising See 29s LAND Page 8 was Miss Ernestine in emplo Bell Tel visit the big cities I I ei tC a It aauucHUli UU LJHliaS I venson will make Waco and Austin Peddy and Johnson will ort Worth the same dav row (Monday Waco will IT V' 1 imhm taBv Ea 1' "lf ted Pay.