The Vernon Daily Record from Vernon, Texas • Page 1

vVOaTiT GO. 3 THROCKMORTOH ST I 11 TE, XA he ernon aily ecord WEATHER Colder and clearing tomorrow; partly cloudy tonight. VOL. XXIII, NO. 50 (A-P) Means Associated Press VERNON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1947 (A-P) Means Associated Press VE CENTS nm Subject of widespread discussion and editorial comment is Nielas Kyriazidis, above, one of two foreign correspondents arrested as an alien Communist by the U.

S. immigration officials. The latter claimed he lost his journalistic Immunity when the two Greek Communist newspapers he represented were closed by the Athens government. Truman Unaware Of Tax Cut Plan President Declines Any Direct Comment on Issue Set for Jan. 7.

DENT CONTROL IS LIFTED IN VERNON Six Convicts Still At Large Following Bloody Prison Break Wallace Action Truman Declines To Comment on Canon City, Dec. 31. UP) six of 12 desperate convicts who fled from the Colorado State Prison last night in a bloody uprising were still at large today as hundreds of searchers tramped through heavy snows and biting cold in pursuit. One of the fugitives was slain in downtown Canon City, a second prisoner was shot in the leg. two persons were seriously wounded and four prison guards were badly mauled in the 12 hectic hours immediately after the dozen incorrigible convicts lured to freedom from cell block isolation section for the prison's worst inmates.

Two of the youngest escapees surrendered quickly but the other three who have been recaptured, gave themselves up only after being fired on by guards or beaten into submission. Saw Way Out One of the recaptured felons, Capital Still Buzzing Over Former Cabinet Decision to Enter Presidential Race. Washington, Dec. 31. a shake of his head, President (Truman replied no comment today when asked about Henry A.

Wallace's candidacy for Presi- when he and two other prisoners forced their way into her home. R. L. Freeman, 23, convicted kidnaper, as caught west of Canon City when guards shot him in the leg. Warden Roy Best described those who broke out of the penitentiary as bad the worst we have in Mrs.

Minnie Higgins, 52, wife i of a prison farm caretaker, was reported in critical condition from loss of blood from three dent. deep head wounds suffered when Reporters sought several times two of the felons appeared at her at Mr. news conference farm seven miles east of Canon to get his reaction to Wallace's City and bludgeoned her into un- party move. The President consciousness. would not comment on what Wal- Bcst said the fiwo convicts, one lace had said, or on what his of whom was wearing a prison former secretary of commerce has Snow and Rain Hit Texas Wednesday As Mercury Drops (By morrow, the Weather Bureau said Snow flurries were reported StronE winds wcTe due he Panhandle and as far south hits thc coas tonlorrovv aftor.

as LI Paso, where thc Sun Bowl 4l noon. Cleaiung weather was ex- festivities have begun, tins morn- pected to come in tomorrow with Xu tt the cold front. The Weather Bureau predicted i snow flurries and occasional freezing rain and drizzle in the north-! west portion of East Texas and in West Texas this afternoon. guard's uniform, had escaped after officers reported at first they had surrounded the pair in thc farmhouse. Guard Overpowered The prisoners lashedout Tnllrv 54 venr ntri against Guard A.

53. I eomincnt B. lollev, jear old slaver, wj1cn unlocked the cell block said in criticism of the Administration. The discussion of Wallace began when reporters asked the effect of his announcement on thc Democratic Party. The President said he had no told Washington, Dec.

31. President Truman today professed their cells newsmen he and another and stepped in at 5:30 last night, pi sawed their way out of Knocking Clark insensible with and i-x i an iron pipe, the convicts turned ignorance of a move by Demo- others. saws are all over? cratic Congressmen to propose a the he declared. $3,500,000,000 tax cut in 1948 to Werner Schwa rtzmiller, 35, counter Republican demands for sentenced for assault to commit a still bigger slash. murder, was recaptured after a Once again declining any di- courageous farm housewife bat- rect committment on tax re- tered him with a claw hammer duct ion, Mr.

Truman told a news Three Killed in Wreck of Train conference he would withhold any announcement of his attitude until he submits his state of the union message to Congress Jan.1 7 Rep. Mills. Democrat. a member of the tax-framing House Wavs and Means committe. said; yesterday it is time Democrats Monahans, Texas, Dec.

31 begin thinking about a tax cut- worked early today to ting bill and suggested it should remove the last of three bodies provide cuts totaling about $3, 500,000,000. on four other as they ran to his aid. All were battered severely about the head and one, Joe Then someone wanted to know how it would affect the new year for the Democrats. Mr. Truman said he thought the Democrats would have a happy New that he was sure thdy would and that he would have one himself.

But outside the White House, harming their fellow workers and the convicts battered open thc (jpf I gate, fleeing undercover of a blinding snowstorm, Within minutes after the break, police received reports of four of trainmen killed early last night cars being stolen. However, all Cray, was reported in serious the capital still was buzzing over condition despite several admin- Independent bid for the istrations of blood plasma. The presidency. others, Bill Davis, Cecil McLean, Senator Sparkman, Democrat, 50, and Winston Williams were told reporters lie believes then forced to go with the pris- one result will be a return of Dcm- oners to the north gate. ocratic Party machinery to Iower guards along the north ular" control in key political wall hold their fire for fear of states.

Rop. Dinvell. Democrat, whcn two Texas Pacific freight were recovered within a few another committee member, also crashed headon on a rail the Canon City vicinity proposed a meeting of Democratic' siding near here. tugitives were believed Congressional leaders to consider! Flames from one of the still a tax program. burning engines and a blazing Asked for comment.

Mr. Tru- lank ear hampered rescue efforts, man said he know any-1 The dead: thing about it. O. M. Waters of Big Spring.

He added he would let report- Texas, engineer of a west-bound ers know? later whether he will fast freight which swerved into deliver his state of the union the siding through an open switch message in person. and ploughed into a halted local The message, lie said will be reight train, followed on Jan. 9 by his eco- J. P. Cline of Big Spring.

Texas, nomic report and on Jan. 12 by fireman of the fast freight, his budget message. J. A. Coyne of Big Spring, en- Mcantime, government analysts gineer of the local freight, said that increased government W.

T. Morris of Big spending and lower revenues brakeman on the fast freigh was during the next fiscal year may a serious condition in a Mona- mean a drop in the budget sur- bans hospital. He was thrown to he on foot now'. From one of the cars, the convicts obtained a six shooter revolver and a quantity of shells. Bennett Funeral Services Held Farm Income in Texas Over Top Austin, Dec.

31. all- time high value of I verc reported to bo within a mile ot strategic Pampa had a low of 16 degrees last night and temperatures down to 15 and 18 were predicted for the Panhandle tonight, with 18 to 23 in the South Plains. Showers and thundershowers were due also to hit Last and South Texas tonight. All of Texas will be colder to- Relief Forces Near Konitsa Weary Garrison Still Holding Out Against 5,000 Guerrilla Troops. Athens, Dec.

31. driving Greek Army relief forces pressed within sight today of embattled Konitsa, where a weary thousand-man garrison has been holding out since Christmas Day against furious attacks by an estimated 5,000 guerrillas. Military authorities in Ioan- nina said the juncture of the relieving forces with the garrison could be expectrd about noon. The battered Konitsa Garrison signalled to the relief column: glad to see your movements and know you'll be coming Athens press reports said thc! city had launched a last desperate assault on Konitsa and were being pounded by artillery fire. The bulk of the Greek rein- Rain fell at Dallas, scene of Cotton Bowl football game, last night with .66 inches recorded up to 6:30 a.

m. today. A pre-dawn downpour sent 1.22 inches of rain on Gainesville. miles west Funeral services for Banks C. Bennett, age 68 veteran printer and long-time resident of Vernon, were held Wednesday at p.m.

at the Underwood Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. A. B. Hughes, plus to $2,500,000,000 as compared from the cab of the west bound Past or of the Primitive Baptist was attained by Texas crops this year, the United States Department of Agriculture reported yesterday.

USD A attributed the record total to the larger cotton and wheat crops and a general in-, crease in thc level of prices of i nunil5cre4 1- oi most farm commodities. The banner total was 55 per cent greater than the $932,248,000 mile Bourozani Bridge, 11 of Konitsa Authoritative military sources repeated their belief that he danger of Konitsa was past and disclosed that Greek forces in 5,000 men. to an expected this year. TO ATTEND FUNERAL Cairo, Dec. 31.

King Umberto of Italy departed by plane today for Alexandria to attend the funeral 0 his father, ex-King Bittorio Emanuele. Umberto, who arrived here yesterday from Lisbon after being delayed at Algeria by bad weather, made the trip in the private plane of King Farouk. $6,000,000,000 train by the impact. He was found unconscious near the highway which parallels the railroad. T.

Ac P. officials said all other crew members of the two trains had been accounted for. They expected to have "the wreckage cleared from the tracks sometime today. WEATHER Readings for period ending at 8 a. m.

Wednesday: Maximum 55 degrees Minimum 29 degrees Precipitation to 1 p. tn .75 MEET SCHEDULED Dallas, Dec. 31. First meeting of the joint Tcxas-Okla- homa Commission for thc study of conservation regulations for the Lake Tcxoma region will be held in Durant, Saturday. Joe Cooper of Dallas, chairman of the Texas group, said the commission would make no recommendations at its first meeting but will attempt to determine the needs for protection and conservation of wildlife in the Tcxoma area.

Church, assisted by Rev. M. P. Hines, pastor of the Texas Street value placed on 1946 crops and 91 per cent more than the valuation of $745,290,000 in 1915. Cotton and cottonseed were three valued at 631 million dollars and were responsible for 311 million of the 514 million dollar hike in value from 1946.

Wheat worth $279,608,000 accounted for 166 million dollars of Methodist Church, officiating. increase. Thc crop of golden in East View THURSDAY JAN. 1st IS THE LAST DAY And THE BARGAIN KATES On The VERNON DAILY RECORD WILL BE DISCONTINUED Take advantage of this offer now to renew your subscription. FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR ONLY ternment was Memorial Park.

Mr. Bennett dud early Tuesday morning in thc office of thc Vomon Times here he was employed as a printer. He had suffered a heart attack a few minutes as he neared his place of employment and succumbed a few minutes after being inside. Pall bearers were S. Hall.

M. E. Barnhill, 'P. O. Wheeler.

Carl Bradford, Bill Rowland and R. A. Kelley. Survivors of the deceased are thc widow, two daughters, Mrs. D.

Francis of Quanah and Mrs. Uriel Reed of Segundo, one son. Robert Bennett of Littlerock. one uncle, four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. grain exceeded last valuation of $113,878,000 by 246 per cent.

Train Wreck Is Declared Unavoidable by Official Fort Worth, Dec. 31. -After taken an investigation C. D. Peckcn- i paugh, ice-president and general manager of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway, has announced that the wreck of the Sam Houston Zephyr near Corsicana Sunday was an unavoidably trip to the scene confirmed all previous statements concerning the cause of the lie said last night.

is absolutely no doubt the cause was wholly and definitely due to an slightly more than The War Ministry said earlier lhat rebel resistance at Konitsa was out" and military observers said he city was virtually out of danger. Rebel losses in the immediate Konitsa area were estimated At 300 dead, 600 wounded and about 100 captured. The wounded wore being taken to Albanian hospi- tals, military sources said, and one official report said several sections or the attacking rebel force were retreating toward Albania, five miles south of Konitsa. Other reports said a column of trucks had been sighted bringing reinforcements south from Leskovic, Albania, toward the frontier near the Bridge. one of the key military points to the defense of Konitsa.

Sleet Here Sleet, snow, haiI and rain fell in Vernon Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning. Overcast. skies brought more moisture before noon Wednesday and a heavy sleet began falling at 11 a. m. Ice was beginning to form on telephone and electrical lines and trees were bending under thc weight of icc which formed earlier in the morning.

Temperatures in Vernon Wednesday were slightly below freezing. Forecasts for Thursday were for clearing weather and continued cold. Russia Charges U. S. in Failure Molotov Says America Is to Blame for Collapse of Big Four Conference.

Moscow, Dec. 31. blame for the collapse of the recent London Foreign Conference was charged to the United States today by Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, who declared that only the Russian efforts kept it from being entirely fruitless. In a long, three-part statement, published in the Russian press and broadcast by the Moscow radio, the Russian foreign minister declared that the reasons for failure to arrive at an agreement on a German Peace treaty were not accidental. reflect." he said, "two different approaches to the German problem." He repeated the charges he made at the Big Four Conference in London, which broke up Dec.

15 after 17 sessions without agreement. Molotov declared that plots were afoot to make Germany. or at least the Western part of it. object of a cer- tain American plan in Europe." he continued, I PENN STATE Steve Suhey, Penn All- American guard, tries on the "Texas hat" which was presented to him upon the team's arrival in Dallas. Steve and his teammates arrived in Dallas to begin practice sessions for the New Day game in the Cotton Bowl with the Southern Methodist Mustangs.

UN Will Be Asked To Avert Warfare Restrictions On Rental Property End Wednesday Recommendations Made by Local Board Approved by Federal Is Effective on December Removal of rent control from the Vernon Defense Area was approved Wednesday by Housing Expedifor Tighe E. Woods, according to a telegram received Wednesday afternoon by Horace C. Hill, area rent director in Vernon. According to Mr. Hill the order goes into effect immediately and the area which includes Wilbarger County is being decon- troled as of December 31, 1947.

Mi. Woods ordered the decontrol on tne basis of data contained in the recommendation made recent by the local advisory board that the need for continuing maxi; mum rents in the area no longer exists. According to the decontrol or- I landlords and tenants in the 1 who have entered into written lease agreements to in! crease rents up to 15 per cent under thc terms of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947 are not affected i by the action since the provisions of these leases continue in effect at least until Dec. 31, 1948. The effective date of rent control in Vernon was November 1, i1946.

BY CARRIER BY MAIL IN VERNON In Wilbarger, Foard and Hardeman Counties 9.55 5.95 You afford to be without your Home Town paper THE VERNON DAILY RECORD Born March 7, 1879 in Milam invisible defect in the rail, The County. Texas, Mr. Bennett came wheel of the first car left to Vernon in 1886 and resided the rail exactly at the broken except for punt here since that time intervals when he pursued his other towns. He married Miss RecKcnpaugh sari tiiat 12 persons were still hospitalized in Jura Jacks in Vernon August Corsicana but that none was sen 29, 1897. Mr.

Bennett had been a ouslv mimed member of the Methodist Church 1 for more than 50 years and was a member of the Woodmen of the World. The daughter and son in California were unable to attend the rites. son of brother of Vernon People Dies in Oregon George R. Gandy, 44 Mrs. W.

E. Gandy and of Agatha Gandy and Mrs. Brow Castlebury, all of Vernon, died at his home in Portland, Monday night, according to information reaching here Wednesday. Funeral services will be held in Portland Saturday, Survivors are the widow, his mother and several brothers and sisters. The has ten Conditional Grants for FM Stations Are issued Washington, Dec.

31. Communications Commission issued conditional grants for new FM broadcasting stations, subject to approval of engineering details, to Texas A. M. College, College Station. Texas.

FM construction permits were issued to: Mercury Broadcasting San Antonio, Texas. Raoul A. Cortez, San Antonio, Texas. Applications for standard stations were filed by: Jack Cecil, Midland, Texas, 650 kilocycles, 250 watts, daytime only, British Youth Must Register for Work London, Dee. 31.

UP' All young men and women in Britain who are not essentially employed must register between Jan. 19 and 21 so that the Government may assign them to work it considers vital to thc job of rebuilding the nation's shattered economy. The dates were announced by tlu Labor Ministry last night. Affected are all men between 18 and 24 and all women between 18 and 20. Classed as non-essential workers are night club employes, entertainers, bookmakers and those engaged in similar pusuits.

in the guise of economie restoration. American Senators and all! kinds of other businessmen, who are bossing the Western Zones and helping big burinc.ss bore deeper into the industry and banks of Western Germany, are! passing judgment on and deciding) the affairs of Germany. "It now also is known that actual power in the Anglo-American zones is being transferred from united Anglo American organs directly to Americans, who have accumulated more dollars." New Delhi, Dec. 31. Competent officials of thc Dominion of India said today their government an effort to avert war with Pakistan," will hail the Moslem dominion before the United Nations Security Council on charges that Pakistan is actively aiding tribal raiders in Kashmir.

These officials, who declined to be identified by name, said Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India would make an official announcement to this effect within a few days and would discuss it fully at a news conference at that time. Kashmir, a predominantly Moslem princely state in the extreme northern part of the subcontinent, acceded to the Dominion of India last Oct. 27. The ac! cession was announced in an of! ficial release of correspondence in which the Hindu Maharajah. Sir I lari Singh, said: have no option but to ask I for help from the Dominion of India." About 2.000 Pathan tribesmen! Weather Plane Reported Missing Anchorage, Alaska, Dec.

31. Off B-29 long range weather plane is missing on a flight to Elmcndorf Field. presumably from California. Army public information officials reported today. Field officials were reported to be preparing to release additional details shortly.

There was no information immediately on how many were aboard or how long the big plane was overdue. The flights along the coast art a regular military weather observation routine. If the plane has met with disaster, it will be the second eight days on an Alaska operations still are underway in isolated northwestern Alaska for the pilot and navigator of a B-29 that crashed and partially burned Dec. 23. Six of the eight crew members of that plane have been rescued by daring pilots, but three parachutists who jumped to the aid of the stricken crew members ara feared dead.

Funeral for Dr. M. E. Davis Slated Brownwood, Texas, Dec. 31.

Funeral services for Di'. M. previously had invaded Kashmir Davis, 67, who died Tuesday night. Three-Room House Destroyed by Fire Here A three-room house at 2314 McKinney Street was all but de- st by fire Wednesday morning. according to Fire Chief Bill Wallace.

No one was in jured Mrs. C. H. Dillehay Injured In Car Wreck in Illinois Mrs. C.

II. Dillehay, wife of the superintendent of public school system, in thc St. James Hospital in Pontiac, 111., as a result of a traffic acci- dent near Pontiac Tuesday. According to information reaching Vernon Wednesday Mrs, Dillehay suffered a fractured hip. Mr.

Dil! lehay was uninjured. According to icjiorts received here the Dillehay car collided with thc rear of anotht car in a heavily congested area near a highway construction project. The! same source of information said the Dillehay ir was considerably damaged. and had been engaged in combat by State troops and Indian and Sikh reinfforcemcnts flown into Srinagar, the Kasmiri capital. Fighting has gone on intermittently ever since.

ES Texarkana, Texas. Dee. cP1 A municipal retirement system, participation in the State Firemen and Policemen Civil Service Law. and minimum compensation for firemen and policemen were approved yesterday by Texarkana- voters. Complete but unofficial returns late last night showed substantial leads for all three issues.

will be held at Mims auditorium on the Howard Payne College campus here Friday at 2 p. m. Dr. Daws was professor of Bible literature at the college. He was stricken with a heart attack Sunday.

A native of Gilmore County, Georgia, he attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth and was pastor of the Baptist Church at Royse City three years. He resigned to enter Colgate University for graduate study and came to the Howard Payne in 1920. Survivors include the widow and a son, Marcus E. Davis of Brovvmv ood. Chiang Indicates Russia Is Back Of Communist Drive in China Dec, 31, UP' i speeches since the end of conflict ng Kai-Shek charged Japan-en overall grim re- APPLY I OK STATION Washington, Dec.

30. Communications Authority today had received an application for a radio station from William Solon Snowden, doing business as Snowden Radio Enterprises, Midland, Texas. The application was for a station 980 kilocycles, one kilowatt, daytime only. Farm Bureau Members Get Free Income Tax Service Byron Phillips of Vernon has been engaged by the directors of the Wilbarger County Farm Bu: rrau to assist Farm Bureau i bn's in figuring and compiling in- icome tax returns, Mr. services will be available to members from January 2 until January 15 and he will maintain office space in the i county agent office.

His office hours will be from 8 a. until j5 p. m. Nanking issimo Chi today that present Communist menace comes as much from without as from plainly implying that Soviet Russia is helping the Chinese Reds. checkmated," he told his people in a New radio message, "it will cause tlie downfall of our nation, make unitv view of China's position.

Chiang declared that the main Communist forces be annihilated within one year." Ha said thc Reds had unmasked themselves by the real aim of caning Chinese territory into pieces to bring the country down to nun," In Peiping yesterday, Soviet impossible and reduce our people Consul General Sergei Tichvinsky to seils." denied a Chinese accusa- The first from tiori that Russia is supplying light so Irgh a source directed at oft- arms, communications equipment reported but unconfirmed RuNSian and advice to Chinese troops. the Chinese Tichvinsky said his Government only mention of any foreign in- recognizes "only one government fluener in China bitter civil in National 1 it came in one of his longest.