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Solon 0 Nazis on fflltnrlal that Mrrnrtby Bidr'ii mfissfirrf'd 150 Amerl- KMTIO.y LVI WACO, TEXAS, MONDAY, NOVKMBKR 2 12 PAGES NI MBKR il Two Streamliners Collide In Alabama; 18 Persons Die Caudle Star Witness In Probe Todav OUT ON A of loco! Tom orwj Jerry's chose here the end artd Photographer WUIn wm to snap a picture ot the oc- tivity. The rot who hos himself woy out a limb identified. The cot thot conducting the chose, but stymied by branch belongs to Mrs W. V. York, 2801 Fort It oit started Soturdoy when Cioro Hernondei, 13, ot 2806 Fort ffrst nottced the cot racing through the tree Closer inspection showed Tom in pursuit of very nervous Jerry.

Cloro roused the neighborhood to wotch, Mrs. coHed IMs, who roced to the scene Homer Combs Tcxos Power ond Light was neorby wsfh lodder-equipped truck, Wtllis went up 35 feet on the todder end mode these shotS' If you don't think Jerry wos woy out on a timb, check the lower picture closely. The chose continued for about on hour, Tom wnuid withdrew tnword the trunk of the tree. Jerry would foce for oncther limb. Before Tom could get to Jerry would be back on sprf .4 too frogtle for Tom Whot with otJ the audience, Jerry fmoHy got so excited he tumbied to the ground, supermouse fashion.

Tom was him, but too ioie. Jerry took refuge in or under neorby automobile. Tom wos left just onother frustrsted cot. I Next chopter due soon at your local theatre i wmmi TRAIN ES BAITLE. NOT HOLIDAY WA5HINT.TON.

Kw. 25 IjAmar ftrwl from Job as chlrf tax fraud priwcutor, will tomorrow as CorjR on a I irwiteh from in thr nal Burial to air the handltnc of tax casM. Attornev Howard Mrtlirath that Wi that will bp department and th? king Attorney General did not outright that would to tax but It rouW about which has MfCrath would for turwd ovpr to to tPsMfy Sn a puhHr hearing a Ways and it jran work, have than two 9 or resignations by tax of- Chairman King. D. Cal, has he to know why fraud rwom- by tax for rourt action have dropped higher More Seen At the time Internal ntie JcHhn B.

Dunlap indieated further developments soon in San Francisco. York and Detroit phases of in- Officers Say Soviets Head Red Artillery WESTERN FRONT, Korea. Nov. 2S convinced Sunday that artillery- had taken over the direction of Communjiit bSg Run fire on the western front, opening new war" here They believed Soviet matfer-minding the bomhard- nhout Nov. 1, the armisHre tRlkt at npur by Panmunjom and the began buildintr up in thii lector.

A afd to the commander of the British Rth reeentiy intercepted a mestage from a Communint artlHeryman. In were riven in pure the Pole But British tuiperted Ruiiian direction of the artillery fire long before the mestaee overheard. Col. Sir Guy lather, commander of a Huitar tank battalion, tald; "A new war began about Nov. I.

w'hen they laying down really proper artillery. There only one more new war to be fought they In With their iummer a flood of from the Korean front reported the pretence of mljtht be and reported In particular that some Ruiiian funners mJiht be In the field Kxcellent ShelVlnir A British officer of the 2isrh bris- ade istd that on Nov, 4. when the own Scottish Borderers were under fire on the western front, the I was "the beat ever The threw three ihellii on almost any position they They kept it up for an hour and then dropped the fire down to three every two for anolher hotir, the officer Head-On Smash Crushes Engines on Ire WOODSTOCK. Nov. 25 deluxe streamlined trains loaded with Thanksgiving holiday travelers crashed head-on at a mining camp siding Sunday, and killed 18 perRons, Sixty others were injured.

The Orleans Crescent, going about miles an hour, smashed Into the Southern Railway'i slowly movinii; Southerner at in midafternoon. 5 Trainineii Said Killed Near Boise The terrific Impact knocked the two dieiel 90 feet apart and fent. two cars down a 4ft-foot embankment. Another car eoped atop a pasjwnger Fire broke out in one car. A train official 10 been removed from the twisted wreckage.

Rescue workers are trying to reach more bodies which were aeen, Kngineer Killed A railroad official said five other persons were dead including P. J. Birmingham, engineer of the northbound Southerner. BOISE. Idaho, Nov.

Five trainmen were reputed killed today in a oolUiion of two Union Pacific freight trains 25 east of Boise. Sheriff Don Headrick reported ft wettbottud malnlincr freighter t' I Into an eastbound train k. division at Orchard, tendent of the Alabama Great Idaho. MAPPING OUT THE TRUCE ond Communist officers ot Ponmunjom, Koreo, work over single mop in on effort to define the line of bottle contact which will become a provisional truce line Officer with pencil is Col, Jomes Murroy, USMC. Other UN officers look over his shoulder.

Chinese ond North Korean officers ore ot left. iHEA Radio-Telephotol See CAUDLE, Page 2 Takes Oalh REHOVOT, Iwael. Nov. President ChaJm Weizmann took the oath of office for his second term today. A government spokesman Dr.

Weirmftnn in- making it net'essarv to administer the oath at home here, rather than beforr Parliament in An fired a 21-gun wtlute out- jwde during the ceremony Hurls Bomb At RAF Apartments ISMAILIA. Egv-pt, Nov. 25 An F-gyptian hurled a bomb at a former Royill Air Force apartment iiouse Sunday night and showered British officers wUh shattered elass. F.xcept for blasted windows, little damace was done to the building, Until tt was evacuated as a result of pitched battles here week ago. it was the home of score of air force families.

Another Hurdle Cleared in Truce Southern Railroad, said rescue workers, using axes and burning torches, were continuing a hunt for more bodies. The grinding collision, which left both diesel locomotives spouting burning oil. occurred as the Southerner started to pull out of a siding just after Sts somhbound sister Southerner had thundered survived The m.en, Glenns Ferry, were identified TOKYO. Monday. Nov.

2fi conceded on one because Allied and Communist negotiators of a change in the battle situation i Monday reached agreement on four during the discussion. the 10 Korean hill posjtions which have held up the drawmg of a tentative li.ne In tn Fears were earlier Southerner engineer found Crescent hurtling down on It. "The engineer of the Southerner stopped and tried to up but had no chance." said P. Jf. Burns, an to the cra.sh arnl one of the firiit to reach the scene.

Apparently only the engine of the Southerner on the mam line but when the Crescent smacked into it. the engine was piled back on the iorward cars of its own train. George Newton, 49. Radford. a passenger gave this account; Much Left "We had just passed the Southerner.

Our train was pulling out Hvr ulevl uniti of the two trains and Mx or eight can were derailed and bunt Into flames. The fire quickly engulfed a nearby coal chute and ater tower. No bodies had be-en recovered nesriv three hours after the crash but Union Pacific officials said none of the five crew-men all as Roy Hull, engineer: J. Hreman; and R. Reyriolds brakeman, all of the westbound train: James Higgins, engineer, and P.

Walker, fireman, both on the east bound train. Couse of the accident which pmed at 6:45 a. m. was not immediately Wreckage of the two tralnt blocked Pacific main line tracks. Ail available equipment was being brought In both from Nampa and Ferry to clear the tracks.

i rea. The negotiators already had on ail but 35 miies of the battle line in previous discussions, The 10 hills holding up final ag mem were this section of the line. The Communists, during a near- 1 ly three hour meeting in Panmun- ijom agreed to United Nations sesion of The the Communists were a sidetrick when it stopped with TO stall while they others of the key along the 145-mi le front. Ridge 16 SOS From Ship Heard a sudden jerk. We about TOKYO, Nov.

26 a minute, and then there was the'The maritime safety re- most terrific jar ever gotten from just picked up and tentatively Identified One of the 10 places under dis- A lady next to nie was nationality and in 35 From CorpiiP CORPUS Nov. 25 men were killed today in a plane crash near St. Paul about 35 miles northwest of here. They were J. A.

Gibson and Chester Liebman, operators of the Uebman-Glbson Drilling Company of Alice, and Frutofto Perez. MORMSa MOH US THE DAYS ARE (UTTiSG PTR TUf Mt.HTS; ARK C'A TTtS'G i OSGKH RI OfiK HOt RS STAY Tiir SAMf: THKRrrnRr KSVrR Tft WiiOV Tfiir ri.fX'K TOLLS iT TOi.f ran THE WEATHER NewiuTrilmne Oial Monday iunrlsc tomorrow af 1 ft i P- .10 ft TO, V) hS 1" m. ,.51 tn 1 in 1 IP SA 3 60 11 St VI R3 4 p. 30 59 1 a fi SO 5 7 .1 ii 4 10 Si 5 Mi i Ik. tn.

ano of 25 5 rloudv with I'onlinued niild tenipirnfure today, tonlahl and TiieMlfty, Masi- nuiin low tonight. 45. Highc'it temporHture yr.iterdny degref'S at m. Lowest temperature, 40 degrees at 9 a. m.

Average maximum trntpcrnmre for thU month, fis5 Rainfall during last 24 hours, .05 inch Rainfall this month, inch. The river stage today at m. was 4 4 feet. New on N'ov at m. For regional and national weather, Page With Anti-f tefc, sale, PHILAnKLPHIA.

Nov 25 Cpl. John J. Murphy 30, wrote parents here that he got on the wrong tram on holiday in Korea and wound up fighting on the front line for 92 days. said a Korean policeman last directed him to a train gojng to neighhoring village near his air terminal group headquarters. "I fell asieep on the train and woke up north of the Murphy said in the letter received thiii weekend.

He tried to explain to officers of a CRvslry regiment that he was lost and wanted to go back In ferrying group. believe he said. "They thought I was Just trying to get off the front So someone pujshed rifle In Murphy's hands and he sent Into battle. By the time he persuaded officers his story was true, things were too hot on the front to do about It. The airman became a rfile- man.

He took part in more than patrols and won the combat badge. Finally, the Army found time to investigate his case and restored to his outfit. But in between times, he was lisferi US fighting on the front line in of the hardest battles of the 32 Killi'il, .1 Wntiiifirfi III Miifiila Itf'il MANILA, Nov, 25 two persons were killed and three were wounded In week-end skirmishes between troops and Communist-led Huk rebels, the Philippines News repotted today. Ri.so ahdurted and killed a man in ince miles north of Manila, the agency said. The dead wwe as 25 Hiiki.

three soldiers, three civilian leaders and a iarmtr. Drpiily Self 'Vi'liilf Roulette CHICAGO. Nov. 25 (UP former Cook County deputy sheriff killed himself playing "Russian roulette" Sunday while his wife criefj and pleaded with him not to take the chance. Delores Dwyer, 24.

told police her William, 27. was by the of loading his revolver with one bullet, spinning the chambers, pointing the gun at his head and pulling the trigger. IVrminiiioti Graiileii For to Murry Samia CAIRO, Nov. 25 i King of Texas and belly dancer Samia Gamal received official permission Sunday for a Moslem wedding and said they hoped to get married on Wednesday. "It will be impossible to be married said, rii be too with my troussenu.

And I don't want us to get married Tuesday because superstition has it that Tuesday is a bad day. So do it pute was This was captured by the Allies Sunday morning after a furious Communist assault was beaten off. Both sides have agreed to set up a 30-day cease-fire line along the present battle line, but are arguing now over location of the battle line. Authorities at the Allied advance camp doubted that the cease-fsre Ime could be approved finally by the full delegation before Wednesday at the earliest. That would make the deadline fall three days after Christmas.

The delegates were at least two days behind schedule. The staff officers working on the line at the war w'ould end If an armistice is signed within 30 days submitted 11 disputed pomts to the joint sub-committee Sunday. The Reds suddenly trotted out Stafkseii Barkerp Set Up National Heailqnarterii WASHINGTON, Nov, 25 old E. backers opened a national headquarters here Sunday in a drive to capture the Ref mblican presidential nomination or the former Minnesota governor. Stassen, 44 and now president of the University of Pennsylvania, was an unsuccessful candidate for the GOP nomination in and He has not yet said anything about the race and has announced he at least until January.

Younp Waco Girl Injured in Home A 7-year-old Waco girl was In serious condition af Hilli'rrsl Hospital Sunday night following a household accident in which she slipped and hit her head againsi; the family washing machine. Little Gloria Stone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Stone, Memorial rendered unconscious by the blow about 11:15 a.

and had not regained at a late hour Sunday night, according to her mother. The injured girl, who was ried to the hospital by Blue Fla'ih ambulance, is a second- grader at Alfa Her father employed at Qwens JUUnois Glaia plant 80 Neff, colorful former Texas Governor ond Boylor University president sold lost night he had no special plans for celebrating his 80th birthday today, He said he might hove stotement to- doy. Allies Crush 3 Divisions In Defending Hill Korea. Manday. Nov.

26 in a 41-hour snow-swept battle, held "i.ittle peak in w' rveas sunaemy iroiiea oui 24.000 their old familiar truculent attitude i-sM KXi sub-commlttcc i was called when the not agree on the 11 that the combat eiiectiveness of a points Chmes- Red army corps of three Communists conceded one divvMons destroyed. A poim. but took an uncom- be- promising stand on the others, Af- tween h.isiii men. Uer is quite clear that the enemy employed most of a corps to take the hill and that corps is no longer an effective attacking he said. First estimates were that 1.5iX^ Reds were killed and more than were wounded.

officers said Allied casualties were low" in view of the fero- fitv of the Red ground attack and the thousand? of rounds of mortars and artillery fired by the Communists. Red prisoners they were told to take the hill mass, near Yonchon, and the war would soon be over Superforts last night bombed the Namsi and in their continuous campaign to prevent the Reds from baling on the Korean strips. of the hill fighting last night was in 20 degree weather 'The winter's first cases of frost bite and trench foot afflicted some Allied soldiers. Snowstorms all across Korea and a plunging thermometer choked off all but patrol activity except in the bitterly contested sector of which some of the front line men had been calling Little Gibraltar Communist field guns lashed back at the Allied forces atop the ridge Sunday night. And 1-nited Press Correspondent Arnold Dibble reported from the front that Allied officers were convinced Russian were directing the artillery fire on that front -had been doing so for nearly a month.

I.auneh The Reds launched a assault on Armistice ridge Friday evening, Thev overran all four of its peaks. The fighting went on. regardless of darkness and bitter I eather sweeping down from the I Siberian plains. I By Saturday night the Allies had i re-taken three of the peftks. Through the night they worked throw the length of the car.

I unknown, helped other off the floor and then 1 ran outside. car in our train was completely telescoped over the sec-i ond car, jammed slap down the' ml I I I length of it. Our engine all to pieces ana sidewayspie ck.across the trac "The Crescent Limited was a double diesel. There wasn't much left of the front engtne got all of the passengers out of the second car from the front in the Southerner, and there were two dead servicemen still in there." At the moment of collision started running through the train said Newton. looked like every- btxiv was The Crescent Limited was being detoured over the Southern lines because of a damaged bridge on the L.

and N. near New Orleans. IS NO MURDER IKBIANAPOLIS, Noir. SS raced to frelgbt on a telepbone tip a been and bod.v dismembered la New York Central fitti all tliey couid find Howard artifiriat lef. Finley, of Clnrinnati.

Ohio, explained that bis leg sllpped off during ride. ordered to pielc up hla teff and otfcer and gel off property. THREE SCOUTS LOST IN UTAH BLIZZARD ter an hour and 35 minutes of wrangling, the sub-committee turned the differences back to the staff officers. One of the 10 disputed heights was "Armistice on the west- SALT LAKE CITY, Nov 24 Salt Lake County ern front. The Reds took it late office reported tonight that three Boy Scouts are lost on the -l-wt blizzard-swept In Emigration Canyon of here.

The sheriffs of lice said an 8-man crew' has begun pu.shmg into the ed It Sunday. The bill commands OfncS-s siid' mountamous area on and that forest service ed to be stalling in hope of getting the hill on their side of the fire line. The weather turned bitter cold Sunday night, lending urgencv to the to avoid another winter war. Stalling The official spokesman, l.t. Col.

Howard LevSe, said the Communists were and the issue could be prolonged- But he said i the Allies believed it was a mat- iter of information the slowness of changes being reported to Panmunjom. are certainly not going to concede on any line behind our Levie said. He said the Reds were not only trading territory In no land, but points behind the Alline front lines, Communi.sits made claims which. In many areas of dispute, would place the line of contact well behind United Nations command a commun- Ique on Sunday's proceedings said. also is enroute to the scene.

Roy Hell! in Theft A 16-year old bov was taken into custody by police Saturday night after he stole a flashlight from the H. B. Food Store on Elm. He w'ill be turned over to Probation Officer John Brown Monday. The report of their plight was brought out bv Scoutm.a.«ter Pearson.

27, Salt Lake City. Pearson and the boys, also of Salt City, left Hennefer. Utah, about 20 miles northeast of here, vester- day morning They had just reached the crest of the Pearson said when the snowstorm struck The boys began tiring and Poarson left them, swaddled in nioniiside the rough road, over which the Mormon jpioneers entered the Salt Lake valley In 1947. Pearson was found by at the mouth of Emigration Can- von. near the spot where Mormon leader Brigham Young declared, over lOO years 8KO, Is the Pearson was dog tired from Wf through two-foot deen snow.

The search began immedf- ateiv. 'Fhe boys were Identified bv sheriff's office as Roger Wilson, Ray Soren'ton and Sheldon Giles. their way up the slopes of shrouded In darkness and tnow By 9 a. m. they wtra on top and SOMETHING? Ko need to sit and mope, Ju.st dial 4-2'l31 and place a Lost and Found Ad.

Tribune-Herald Classified Ads reach thousandi wititln WINS Premier Mohammed Mossadegh won a smashing vote of confidence, 90 to 0, yesterday after a weeping appeal tn which he blosted the British, praised Amerlcons and pledged no let up in his fight to take over the British oil compony. Porlio- ment and crowds cheered him wildly. Tone-Pavton Rotiianee It in Bloom HOU.YW(X)Dt Nov. 25 on-agsin-off-again Franchot Barbara Payton romance and mar- was apparently on again Sunday after the pair spent a evening in two of fUm land's niteries. The pair were spied toy in the early evening for four-year-old son and own two boys.

Then the pair, she ed in a tight-fittine black with a low cut and he In a dapper gray pln-tlnpe auit,.

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