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William Coontf and A FINE HOME Industry Agriculture Churches Schools Citisene actor g) ail AP AND NEA TELEPHOTO LEASED WIRE VOLUME 40, NUMBER 30 TAYLOR, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1953 The Taylor Daily Press Williamson County's ONLY Daily Newspaper Price: 5c Daily, 10c Sunday GOP Leaders Working On Legislative Program WASHINGTON, For the second straight day, President Eisenhower is continuing top level conferences for a new legislative program. Taxes, the national debt limit, atomic energy and foreign affairs are among the topics un- Aer discussion today. Secretary of the Treasury College Students In Wisconsin Muff Speaker MADISON, Uni- versity of Wisconsin student leaders headed a lively rebuttal session last night following a campus talk by Joseph Staro- bin, former foreign affairs editor of the Communist Dally There were snickers and Undertone comments. And a full chorus of boos and greeted pronouncement that the central idea of the men In charge of American policy Is making war on Russia and China. In the rebut.ni tbn, Student Le-dei uick Givens of New York asked if he would be allowed to have the same right to speak in a Communist country as Starobin had on the Wisconsin campus.

Starobin said the Question was put in what he described as a confused way. Finally another student leader, John Fritschler of Superior, Wisconsin told the do not intend to start a war the American people are a peaceful people but we will meet aggression with flirm- ness, as we have shown in every Instance." M. Bailey Dies In Dallas C. M. Bailey, former Taylor resident, died suddenly in Dallas Thursday morning.

Mr. and Mrs. Bailey resided here about 40 years ago where Mr. Bailey vas engaged in the jewelry business. He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs.

Howard Lane of Mt. Vernon, Iowa; one son, Arnold Bailey of Dallas; 2 grandchildren and several grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning. (hesl Quota Mel! General Drive Chairman Tom Bullion today announced that the 1953 Community Chest quota of $12,400 has finally been met. "Of course, still accept more," Mr.

Bullion said, happy to report that the quota has been Humphrey is discussing taxes and the debt limit, but no details are known yet. Previously, however, the President has said that some taxes will be allowed to expire. The administration also has tried unsuccessfully to increase the national debt limit and has indicated it will press for favorable action I during the next session of Congress. The President plans to discuss I social security and to the physically handicapped during the I day. Secretary of welfare, Hob! by will present her views.

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is reporting to the president on the North Atlantic Council meeting in Paris. Dulles is pressing for early action by France on a European army project in which West Germany would be re-armed. Missing Plane Is Spotted; Survivors Seen i By Associated Press The wreckage of a missing US Navy Patrol Bomber has been spotted on an Iceland glacier. First word indicates that there are survivors among the 9-man crew. US Air Force headquarters in London said an Icelandic ground rescue party will be rushed by plane to a small airfield near the glacier.

The wreckage of the bomber was sighted by an American air rescue plane and at least 2 Danish ships. The bomber had been missing for 24 hours on a routine training flight. Cloudy Skies, Rain Forecast For Texas By Associated Press It has been raining all along the coast of Texas and far inland this morning. Most of the rainfall is reported under one half an inch except at Palacios with 1.16 inch and Galveston with one-half an inch. Early morning low temperatures ranged from 55 at Beaumont to 21 at Dalhart.

Most temperatures over the state were in the 40s. Except for the far western area around El Paso, the state is blanketed with clouds. Slightly warmer weather is expected throughout the day. Winds are light southeasterly over the whole state. Weather Bureau forecasts call for mostly cloudy skies with gentle rising temperatures and occasional rain for nearly all of Texas over the week end.

Red May Chance To All POW May Be Screened By Associated Press some belief in rapped Chicago firemen work frantically to free two of their trapped comradea who at this point have their heads out from under brick and debris. The firemen were two of nine rescued aftor wall of a skid row hotel collapsed following fire which practically destroyed the building. Telephoto In Chicago Released Mental Patient May Have Started Fire CHICAGO, Arson detectives are investigating whether a recently released mental patient set the skid row hotel fire early yesterday which brought death to 5 firemen in collapsing wreckage. The released mental patient was fatally burned. A note found on the body of John Tybor, 38, hinted he had set the fire.

It said am really crazy. I killed only 15 people. I also set fire to 12 apartment buildings. Tybor, released Wednesday from the state hospital for mental patients at Manteno, Illi- 'Merchants, Save Your Decorations Attention, Mr. Merchant The Chamber of Commerce is looking ahead to next Christmas already, and like to ask your cooperation now in help ing to make 1954 Christmas Parade bigger and better than ever.

Along about November, the youngsters who enter floats begin looking for decorative materials. where you come in. The Chamber is asking that you save all your Christmas decorations using this things you might otherwise throw away. If do this, the Chamber will pick It up right after Christmas and put it aside for the youngsters be needing it next year. The Weather By Patterson Bros: Mostly cloudy with occasional light rain this afternoon.

Cloudy to partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. No important temperature changes. Lowest tonight near 43. High 55; low 39. THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALI CALL FOR AN APPOINTMENT French Parliament Fails In 3rd Try To Elect President PARIS, he French Parliament has failed in another effort to elect a new president cf France.

The balloting in Paris made history. It was the first time ir French history that a presidential election was carried into a 3rd round of balloting in Parliament. A majority of the votes cast is required for election. Before the 3rd balloting got underway, French Foreign Minister Georges Bldault, announced his withdrawal from the contest. That leaves 3 candidates still in the running.

The voting is taking place in the old legislative chamber of the famed Versailles Palace, ancient home of French kings. I Texans Hurt In Guam Crash By Associated Press The casualties in the crash at Guam of an Air Force B-29 plane include two injured Texans. The injured men are an airman from Carigo Springs and a first Lieutenant from Dallas, Jack Patton, None of the 19 dead is listed as from Texas. Patton, the radio operator, suffered burns but his condition is not serious. Patton says he was in a crash landing position with his back braced against a bulkhead.

The plane crashed yesterday. Post Office To Be Open Late To take care of the Christmas mailing rush, the Taylor Post Oifice will remain open until 6 p. Saturday afternoon, Postmaster Dan Hannan announced today. All windows will be open, Mr. Hannan said.

squad nois, had registered at the Reliance Hotel Wednesday night. His body was found in the basement beneath a section of the building where the first flames were seen. Twenty-four other firemen, who were searching and inspecting the ruins when three walls of the three-story brick building collapsed, were injured. Only one was still in critical condition. Hours of hand digging by other firemen freed the injured who were trapped in the heaps of bricks, twisted beams and splintered furniture.

Voters Disappointed In Ike Says Former GOP Leader Korea that the pro-Red war prisoners in incluainp: the 22 get one last chariw to change their minds after the explanation period ends. The deadline for the persuasion talks is next Wednesday, and there is little hope that the allied teams will meet with the 22 before then. However, the I i a chairman of the Repatriation General has told newsmen he may take up at a later date the possibility of screening all prisoners who have refused to return to their homelands. Some time ago, Thimayya suggested that he might station an Indian officer in a hut and have all prisoners remain tn neutral custody file through individually. This would give the men a chance to express their wishes in one or non-repatriation.

Othe, Tndlan officers hu-e offered another simple the prisoners walk single file down a narrow path shaped like the letter Y. One arm would lead to repatriation, the other back to the compound in the neutral zone. A South Korean prisoner who fled from a compound earlier this week says 4 Americans and about 20 South Koreans may they get a chance. Dean Our special envoy to Arthur back in Washington to report to the president and the State Department. Dean walked out of the Korean peace conference talks alter the Communists insulted the United States and said he would not return until the Reds apo- loized.

Dean left his aide, Kenneth Young, in Korea. When Dean reached Washington last night by plane, he expressed the opinion that the Communists wont resume the war in Korea. The special envoy refused to go into details prior to Iris report to President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. Last Half-Mile Broken line kidn ap-slnyers Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady took from their death row cells (1) to gas chamber (3) of Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City. The two died shortly after midnight Dec.

17 for abduction-murder of Bobby Greenlease, Jr. An auto drove them from entrance of cell building (2) to the gas chamber. NEA Telephoto If They Knew Hall And Bonnie Turn Down Lasl Chance To Comment On Money By Associated Press If Carl Austin Hall and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady knew the secret cf the missing $300,000 Greenlease ransom, the secret has died with them. They died early today in the gas chamber at the Missouri State Prison in Jefferson City.

And to their final moments of life, they maintained they had nothing to say. hood home, for burial Sunday morning. attorney has said lie does not know where Hall will be buried. His mother and father are buried in a family plot at Pleasanton, Kansas. No Comment The former St.

Louis police lieutenant who broke the Green- wrote it in an effort to point out the Christian values involved. The story was made available to the Associated Press by the Kansas City Star. In his story, the clergyman a I that Hall died a tremen- d( us witness for Christ. He said that Hall told him that God saved him from killing 5 other WINNSBORO, A former state Republican leader believes that 90 per cent of the people who voted for Eisenhower are disappointed in him. He is a former chairman of the State Republican Committee, George Hopkins, who formerly lived at Dallas but now lives at Winnsboro.

Hopkins hastened to add that he personally is inclined to believe that the president is doing the best that public sentiment will permit him to do. Hopkins commented further in these "Many cowardly congressmen will not support him because they believe the people back home would not rturn them to office at the next election. buy Massey And Branch Leave Sunday For San Francisco AUSTIN. Two Texas football stars, end Carlton Massey and guard Phil Branch, will leave Austin Sunday for San Francisco to play in the annual East-West Shrine benefit game. The game January 2nd gives them one more chancy to play under their coach, Ed Price, who will be on the West Coast Coaching staff.

Massey will fly to Honolulu later to play in the Hula Bowl game January 10th. C. F. Romino Named Red Cross Fund Chairman Creighton F. Romine, manager of the J.

C. Penney will serve as fund chairman for the 1954 Red Cross drive. irl The announcement was made jLluinn today by J. R. Owen, chairman of the Williamson County Chapter of the Red Cross.

Mr. Owen pointed out that the local Red Cross drive is always held during the month of March. He said he did not yet know what the quota for Taylor and Williamson County will be. Mr. Romine will announce his chairmen early next year.

After guards had blindfolded and strapped the couple into adjoining death chairs in the gas cell, U. Marshall William Tatman you anything to tell me?" It apparently was a last official attempt to find out if either knew what had happened to the more thanlment inquiry into the 300,000 missing from the 600 ransom money 000 ransom paid by Bobby father. Hail and Mrs. Heady shook their heads and Mrs. Heady said aloud lease kidnaping cu Louis persons besides Bobby Shoulders, has refused to comment on the execution.

Newsmen asked him in St, Louis whether he had listened to a radio account of the executions. Shoulders declared- "I have no comment to make one v.ay or another about the Greenlease Shoulders resigned in anger during a St. Louis police depart- misslng and the handling of Carl Austin arrest. Shoulders declared his I reputation hud been destroyed I by th( Then the couple paid with their lives for the kidnap-murder of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease. Burial Alter Hall and Mrs.

Heady were executed, Jefferson City Undertaker Victor Buescher claimed their bodies. Mrs. Heady body is being taken to Missouri, her giri- mquiry. Account One of the eight clergyman who gave spiritual counsel to Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady has written an account of the hours before the execution. The clergeman wrote the account at the invitation of the Kansas City Star.

He asked to remain anonymous and said lie lease God knew, and saved those 5 others. Tell the world that only God is important. I know Hall told the clergeman his wa a conversion because of the tear of death. The kidnaper added: never been afraid of death. All my life been wondering, thinking, and if it made sense to intelligent men all over the world, there must be something to it." Hail attributed his troubles to see.

ive drinking. He shouldered th" blame for the order and said Mrs. only crime was in loving him. The clergyman said both died without hatred or malice. He quoted Defense Lawyer Mar- hn'l Hoag as saying: I never saw such resignation.

It was wonderful wonderful to really accept Christ like We Can Solve Your Christmas Gift Problem Let us solve a few of your Christmas problems. Send a Taylor Daily Press subscription to one of your friends whom you know is not now taking The Press, and we will send them a gift card with your name on it either now or during Christmas. Nothing will give more pleasure to a former resident than a daily from home via your own Home Town Daily paper. Phone 391 for rates. Army Setting Up Guided Missiles System By Associated Press The Army is going ahead with plans to install the first unit of a system of guided missiles which eventually will defend all our big cities against I aerial attack.

This guided missle, called the Nike is being set up at Fort Meade, Mary- I land, headquarters of the 2nd 1 army. From Fort Meade, Nike missiles can provide protection for Washington, DC big industries and Port facilities, and a number of military installations in the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac river region. The Nike can streak after an enemy bomber at a speed of probably 1,500 miles an hour. It can locate and track down the plane, despite evasive action, and destroy it in flam- ink wreckage. The army says this guided missle can knock down a Jet plane of any known i speed.

Kidnapers Die The kidnap-killers Mrs. Bonnie Heady and Carl Austin Hall are pictured above during their trial for killing the 6-year-old fon, Bobby lease. Bonnie ard Hall died in the gas chamber ly after midnight last night..

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