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Daytime Showers BAl'SHOKE cloudy and warm through Thursday with low of 74 expected Wednesday night. Widely- scattered daytime showers. Moderate easterly winds. THE SUN GIVES FULL COVERAGE OF HOMETOWN NEWS WITH SPECIAL TREATMENT TO STATE. NATIONAL AND LOCAL NEWS VOL.

35, NO. 67 BAYTOWN, TEXAS Wednesday, August 25, I9S4 TODAY'S NEWS TODAY TELEPHONE: 8302. Rve Cents Per Copy SEAMEN HI-JACKED BY MASKED GUNMAN BAYTOWN COFFEE DRINKERS TO AID POLIO FIGHT Baytown coffee drinkers will put their money to good use Friday. Eighteen drug stores and cafes will donate their entire intake from coffee to the March of Dimes, a program that netted, over $400 in last year. The "Coffee Day" project is sponsored by the'Bay- town Jaycee-ettes who will also stage the "Mother's March" later this month, in their vigorous campaign to raise money to help in the national fight against polio.

The coffee program last year was highly successful, with a slight'ly larger number of firms participating. The same procedure will be followed this year, with the stores donating all their coffee money taken in from morning opening to closing time. Mrs. B. R.

Snead and Mrs. Elgie Din'smore are in charge of the project. Stores "participating are Tri-City cafe, Nu-Gulf cafe, Royal cafe, Harbour's cafe, Victory cafe, Brown's chicken shack, Worrell's' drive-inn, restaurant, Lone Star cafe. Weingarten's and Henke-Pillot lunch counters, Tri-Gity pharmacies Nos. 1 and 2, Liggett's drug store, Wooster pharmacy and the three Scarborough pharmacies.

Campaigns Hit Peak Record Primary Vote Predicted Absentee Ballots Hit Ail-Time High Mark By UNITED PRESS A new Democratic primary voting record appeared in the making Wednesday as county clerks totaled up the number of ballots cast, for the second primary election coming up Saturday. The state's more populous counties reported new all-time high marks in absentee voting, indicating that the primary' record of 1,356,392 set in the 1952 first primary might easily be Figures in nearly every county were running weli or far ahead of last month's first primary absentee balloting when 1,350,757 Democrats went to the polls. The previous second Democrat- ic primary high balloting came in 1946, which also was that a Texas gubernatorial race extended into the. s-ecpnd primaries: In that election, the late Bea'uford Jester won by almost two to one over Homer P. fiainey with 1,056,672 votes cast.

The bitter current runoff battle between Gov. Allan Shivers and Balph W. Yarborough. augmented by local races in some counties, was responsible for the exceptionally large absentee balloting. An all-time record number of absentee ballots alrady have been cast in Harris.

Dallas. Travis aud Bexar counties, and'numerous oth- er counties totals exceeded only by those the 1952 general election. Harris county had by far the largest total with 11,119 ballots cast by the 5. p.m.. deadline Tuesday.

This compared with 10.407 cast there in the 1952 general election and only in the July primary this In Dallas county. 4.741. persons who voted in person and ballots had been mailed out. This compared with the previous all- time high of around 3,500 and last month's primary total of 1,695. The ol(3 Bcxar county record of 2.105 absentee votes set last month (See Two) EWS Baytown Seeking Aid in Brief its Police Puzzle TOKYO, Aug.

Air Forces linsed in the western Pacific will join the Seventh Fleet blocking Red China's threatened invasion of Formosa, au nuthprilalive-Anier- military source "cliscibsed Wednesday. WASHINGTON. Aug. Democratic National Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell has accepted a challenge to appear before a congressional committee to back up his "scandal" charges against the proposed power contract.

Sun Spots Polio Fund Swelled THE QUACK SHACK Western dance, sponsored by the Baytown Jaycecs, raised $62.17 for the March of Dimes Tuesday night. Several special numbers highlighted the dance that saw contributions come freely soon after the program was underway. Several Jaycecs and wives and other townspeople were present at the affair. Truck Rcms Car LER-Oy SMITH, 23, of Onlc Addition, fell out of his pickup truck which rammed into a car parked at the curl) at 701 West JKsif.ro. He was charged with having no driver's license.

Smith told Ciilvin Istre that he Ml out of the truck as he attempted a riKlit turn off Xazro. Luther Newman's purked at the. curl) hud about $85 damage, the officers said, while Smith's truck will require about $25 worth of repairs. Gosl-lnn Meeting GOSL-INN of Baytown Junior high will meet at the Quack Shack Thursday night from 7:30 till 10. This will be the first meeting of the new school year.

Around Town ROBERT HILL is very kind to starving or ones who insist they are starving Mrs. Esther Hoffpnuir is in for a surprise or has sho already been told Pvt. Rodney Novasad and Pvt. Arthur Rrsslcr may not appreciati, this, but they arc such look-alike soldiers, the Bulletin Board couldn't tell them apart even aftrr friends identified them. If that really was Eugene Tipton with the black hair and side- iy.irns and a sidewinder mustache, one wonders what transformation would have taken place had he stayed longer in that foreign state of Oregon Any guests who were surprised at the refreshments served at a recent party might like to know the original plans were changed after Valerie Taylor dropped ail the drinks in the street, Milton Johnson all con- over who is who .7.

wishing he had stuck to plans for a fishing trip. By CLYDE It seems that Baytown has run into a rare situation in its quest for an assistant chief of police. As the reclassification of personnel in the police department became more involved Wednesday, City Attorney George Chandler and Police Chief W. R. Montgomery were in Austin seeking advice and information from the Municipal League.

Baytown has had only an acting assistant police chief since Montgomery was moved up to become chief of police on the resignation of H. E. McKee. Due to lack of eligible personnel in the police department, the city council has been pondering reclassifying personnel in the department to make more men gible. However, at the last council meeting, several questions on just how the personnel should be reclassified according to duties and position came up.

The council tabled the matter for further study. Meanwhile, several letters i to surrounding cities were sent out, asking for reports on similar situ- atipns. Many of the letters had been with little encouragement. Mbst city governments said they had never encountered such a problem; others gave confused details to how they solved the problem. C.

D. Middleton, city manager, said Wednesday morning that most larger cities had larger police departments and more eligibilities, therefore being spared such a situation. of the larger cities have a large back-log of eligibilities," Middleton said. "They have many men to pick from." City officials hoped that Montgomery and Chandler could find a solution in Austin. A report on the situation and recent findings will be given to the City Council at the regular meeting Thursday night.

Scarred American Turns Up Raving In Dutch Hospital ENSCHEDE, Holland, Aug. scarred 31-year-old American turned up raving in a Dutch hospital Wednesday. On his back were tattooed these words: "So befalls all U.S. fire murderers and gangster pilots." The man said his name was David Samuel Rollins and that he had been subjected to the tattoo- ins in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. He said he had been an American pilot.

But the details he gave police were so foggy that U.S. and Dutch authorities were puzzled. The tattoo on Rollins' back was in German. It said: "So crgcht es USA-mordbrenner and gangster- piloten." Rollins was found raving on an Enschede street, early on the morning of July 29 and has been in Roman Catholic hospital since. It was unclear what he was doing in Ensciicflc when hospitalized.

Police said the tattooed man told them he was Rollins, born Sept. 9. 1922, at New London. and that his home address wss "Washington. D.C.

Georgetown. Box 63." Rollins he married a Dutch girl, Maria Mary van Houten. in the United States after having met her in Holland, and has two children. He said he studied at West Point in 1941 and while there met President Eisenhower's son. John, now a major in the Army.

The Army officer's serial number Rollins too many digits for a West Point number and appeared to be that of a reserve officer. Police said Rollins told them he flew World War IT missions as a first lieutenant with the U.S. 3Gth Bomb Group stationed in Devonshire and was shot down over Holland, captured and sent to a German prisoner camp called "Stalas 17." Warm-Up In Weather Due Flash Floods Costly in West Texas By UNITED PRESS Decreasing shower activity and slight warming tendencies were on the Texas weather menu Wednesday Tlie U.S. Weather Bureau forecast some widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers, but said they would be confined mostly to the coastal areas. Showers described as "pretty good" by the weather bureau fell in northeast Texas Tuesday, but none fell at -reporting stations and there was no measurement available.

Sbreveport. reported .53 inch. Flash floods wnicn caused hundreds of thousands of dollar? of damage in West Texas had apparently ended Wednesday. About 25 families were out of their homes in the El Paso area after 3,5 inches of fell in two clays. That is about half the average rainfall for an entire year Paso.

IVopIp who appreciate ccmiinp cooperation am! will find it at the Citizens National. The Rio Conchos, swollen by heavy rains near Chihuahua City. merapd with the swollen Rio Grande at Presidio and the international bridge iva.s closed lo traffic for a time. The temporary bridge across the Rio Grande at Del Rio was closed Tuesday night because the river was rising and authorities' said the temporary bridac on U.S. 00 in the Pecos River canyon would be closed to traffic at noon Wednesday.

Measurable rainfall totaled .52 inch at Beaumont. 1.01 at Gaives- ton. .47 at Victoria and .21 at Salt Flat. Early morning temperatures ranged from R2 at Dalhart and Salt I-'bl to 78 Corpus Christ! with Amarilio Marfa wording Ci. FV Lubbock 67.

Midland and Lufkin 70, CJalvenon 71. Tylc-r 72, Beau mom 73. Houston and Waco 74. Fort Worth. San Angelo.

Austin sncf San Antonio DC; and Wichita FslJs 76 and 77. Shivers And Yarborough Hurl Charges UNITED PRESS Challenger Ralph Yarborougb nnci Gov. Allan Shivers, with less than 72 hours in which to sway the undecided voters. piled new charges atop old accusations Wednesday. Yarborough's campaign schedule called for.

speeches at Bryan, Wichita Falls and Tyler while Shivers was on the stump at Georgetown, Killeen, Helton, Temple and Waco. They wp.ru bidoing for support in Saturday's runoff election for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Tuesday night at Houston. Yarborough claimed credit for being in the forefront of the fight to save Texas' tidclands while Shiver was a state senator and "trying to keep horse race gambling our state." Shivers, meanwhile, jn a Brownwood speech accusd Yarborough of being "consistently inconsistent" in his campaign promises and charges. "I have come to the conclusion, that either he's conruscd or he's trying to confuse the voters," said Shivers, in other 3.

Shivers was likened to Gen. Robert E. Lee because each decided his first loyally, was to his state: nominee and Lee in 1801 when he backed the Republican presidential nominee and in 18R1 when he refused command of the Union armies because Virginia had seceded. The comparison was made by former Democratic State Chairman John C. Calhoun, in a filmed television panel discussion.

2. Torn Moore district attorney of McLeJIan county, said (See Two) Wreckage Of Mysfenous Boaf Found PORT O'CONNOR. Aug. 25 The Const Guard said Wednesday it has found the wreckage of a mysterious vessel bearing the name Anna Elena washed ashore on Matagorda Island. Six life preservers were floating nearby.

The Coast Guard said the wreckage of the Anna Elena has been in the water more than 10 days and it 'looks Jike an unreportcd sea tragedy." But Coast Guard officials a i neither the motor boat registry nor the maritime registry at New Orleans carries any craft by the name of Anna Elena and the ship was not known in this area. The wreckage, part of a ship's stern nnd a transom, was found by a Coast Guard plane searching for missing shrimp boat. Raymond Todd. The body of .1. B.

Kcn- ney. 32, of Port Lavaca. one of two men known to have teen aboard the Raymond Todd. washed ashore Saturday near the same place where the wreck of the Anna Elena was found. Coast Guard said the Anna Elena was definitely pleasure? craft and appeared to have boon of th type used toy oil companies for transporting visitors to offshore rigs.

The life preservers found floating near the wreckage were unmarked and the Coast Guard said it wax unable to determine whether they were from the Raymond Todd or the Anna Elena, QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds ANDERSON I'ATSV J5VANS PKKTTY untl I'utsy are two of the i-nlrii-s in coiitt-st which will brlnjf glamor nightly to the p.m. show nt 111 o'Crosby I'Vir, llirougli "Saturday. The 13 iitiei'u candidates wilt parade nightly at fuir unit will IIB judged nightly on nor licunfy (30 per ci'iil.) ami reKfiilin (20 Tlic- ivinmir will In- imtiodiiccd Satnnliiy nijflit. Snndra is the duiightur of Mr. mid Mrs.

Leon Anderson mid I'atsy is the duiighlcr of Wr. and Mrs. A. Evans, nil of Crosby. Things At Crosby Fail 1 BULLETIN lluviml, 17 -yeur-old Crosby KFA boy, won griiml chuinpiOii in tluy market; ciitilo chiss Ihc fuir willi I) li in heifer presented him two years ago liy thd Hi'jn-s rotiiidulioii.

drum! olmmjiion for dairy cut- lit' was ji'rst'y hi'ifcr ou'iicil by ICdwiinl Molccr, 1(1, of Slioldon, nlso ft nii'iiilicr of thu Crosby KFA. iMelci-r won tlm in (lu; Houston Till stork show's calf scrmnbli' your. Kcscrvc nwrlu'l ehiiss champion fls hnifur shown by Bobby Nsii vu 17, iilso Crosby FKA member. The ro- survp dairy chiiinpion went lo (jluirlcs hol- iii. Ky JOI1NKLLA 11OYNTON' A visitor at.

Crosby Fnlr VVedncsdjiy morning ni'i-dcd at tliroe pails rtf lo what was going on. A snt of would have hclpfd, because the newest feature of the Railhead drive- was- still far nwny from morning. The headed fowiird the fairgrounds, however, by midmorning, with about-SO horsiM and riders iiK.sonibllng uL the starting point, Ih' 1 Onlcn Prnirir- school on Wiilllsvllle road. The drive wiui expected to pick ui 1 more riders in Highlmn.lH. The riders are duo to arrive In in time for the fair parade at ti p.m.

Crosby Fnir President Don Ramsey Wednesday morning that the parade will include Iliac bands this veur-r the Ciosby high school tin 1 Junlo': Rrp- briiuj tf'j ji Ult afinUffS di-Wulmciit tfic tluK- Dniaettu bund. In the two fair CM.U- ty contests --the Crosby Fittun 1 of America sweetbonrt and the Crosby Rodeo Queen races will hi; In the The punulo will start nt the fuir grounds and return there by (poping through thy. downtown section of Crosby. In poultry, rabbits, farm products, beef nnd exhibits started morning, nnd champion streamers nnd other ribbons wrre expected to he handed out by noon. Judging in tin- women's division of the fuir was not scheduled lo start until 2 p.m.

Have To Eat, Nervous Man Tells Victims 7Jy KOSAUK IHYEKS Two nierchiint seamen lost f7 10 hi lUcer Tuesday night, and: hail not thy gunman been, so nervous they would have lost $5 more. Robert Joyeo, 25, of Oakland, and Joe- Kolar, IS, of San rinnriico said they were returning to their ship, the L. D. Collier, txt thi clocks, when they suddenly confronted by masked man ft glut. The man stepped out of a car piuhod In the shrubbery the intersection of Wisconsin and JMaikPt, they said.

He told seamen he ''meant business." He told us he was sorry, but ho had to oat. Then ho told us to tlrop our money on the ground ind tun dropped it and i in Jojce told Officers VV. Tinner and Calvin tot re. officers, returning to the stpue with the two seamen, found iv $6 bill on the ground, and tirt rtiound the bushes where thi men said the ear was parked. Ihi stamen said they noticed thi tai as they walked toward the clocks hut paid no Hltention to the poi'sons in it until the.

car drew up beside anil Ihc hi-jaelccr slopped out. The man with the gun was about five feet, ten inches tall. He wus ilriwsid in blue jeans, but wore no shirt nnd had a handkerchief over Ills nice fin- a mask, The seamen 'described' the jaoker'a ear as a 1952 unjam-cot- ored Ford, with the license plates 'covered with some kind of cloth. Tlio motor had a rod knocking and sounded like it was low on. they said.

UN; eottimunists To Begin Trade Of Mob Violence Erupts After Vargas' Death Brazilian Troops With Machine Guns Standing Guard RIO DE JANEIRO, AUK. 25 Troops with guns stood guard Wednesday on every street corner in central Uio, alert for any renewal of the mob violence that followed Prcsicdeni Getulio Vargas' suicide. Communist-Jed rioters run wild in Brazil's principal cities after Vargas killed himself Tuesday, attacking official and private U. S. offices and opposition newspapers and radio stations.

At least three prsons were killed and 15 injured in clashes between troops and the armed rnobs that attacked American consulates in Porto Aleare and Bclo tc and Porlo Alctfre branch of the; National City Bank. A cordon of 625 heavily-armed Brazilian soldiers stationed around the U.S. embassy here had to fire into the air to disperse a mob that charged the buikliiiK. The United had nothing to do with the crisis that led to Varfjns' death, but Communist tators on the occasion in whip up aali-AmcrifMii Hioiers swept opixwiiion newspapers (rom the here burned in jhc sirci'ls. Mobs attacked the of the anti-government newspaper Trib- tiiia and jhe Glolvj radio station.

r-ditor of Tribuna arid target of attempt thai touched off crisis-, fiod his family Jo Caleao air base. Meanwhile, mouriiors lined two abreast for more than a mile on either side of the presidential palace to file oast Vargas' bier and pay their last respects to the mon who donmuitod Brazilian politics for nearly a quarter of a century. Vice Prnslcient Cafe Jr. was busy Wednesday trying to line up a cabinet 1 0 help with the of goverimeni thrust on him by death. Grief over the president's death was general.

Hi.s sister-in-law, Up SPKJNCJKfKLD. Autf. 2.1 ilpl- A boxcar loaded with heavy artillery shells caught fire Tuesday nijfhl In the Springfield railroad yards. The fire, which touched off a riesi of explosions, was put out before midnight, but firemen wiitoh- smouldering di-brbi through tlir niljht to prevent flareup. Mo "direct r.dHualljr.'i" reported to hut OTIC nuui Nilf- heart nl.taclt nnd ifirl injun-d when struck on the head by plaster which foil from i he ceiling of her home.

The rl car loaded with ilW mm howitzer shells, was discovered before the Kt. I.OIIJM- J-'ram'isco freight was liiU'e left for The burning ammunition car was to on ixolfitod section of the yards arid from the train. Mrs. Alrla Sarmnnho. died of a heart attack In Sao Borja when heard he had committed suicide.

President Eisenhower sent a message of condolence to the widow of the president. "Please accept mv deep herson- nl sympathy to you and your family upon the dentli of your husband," Mr. Eisenhower said. Woman Will Head Empire AUK. Mrs.

Mary Moody Northern hits been elected head of all major of the S-100 million financial empire built by her father, this bile VV. L. Moody Jr. Moody. 89, died lust July 21 after an attaint of pneumonia.

His will left to Mrs. Northern, $200.000 another daughter, Mrs. Clarlt VV. Tlifiirip.son, and cut hix W. L.

off with The bulk of the hunt: estate wa.s left, to the Moody Foundation. It. wa.s announced Tuesday njjjht Mrs. Northern bad been elected of the American National Insuiranee Moody tinnal Bank, Publishing American PriritinR and W. Moody and investment bankers, all of Galveston, and Commonwealth Mfe and Accident Insurance St.

lyiuK Mo. Japan Students Demand End To A-Bombs the shells I in Want that:" EVANSTON. Aug. A petition by 33.000 Japanese youths demanded Wednesday ths nntiwis 'ho world "prohibit the production, use and ex- of ntomic and hv- Tfifr wns to he preitnt- to Uie the assembly of thf World Council of schediflwJ was the c'fction tho WCC's six new firf'sidcnts. The had for Tuesday but mnY.j'.f.

that ifi.vman 1 included postponed the voting. A delegation headed by the Kev. Dr. Michio moderator of 'he United Church of Christ in Japan, nnnded the petition to officers of the -ifflion rcremonv ui em fcrn fanifxiK in iliis Chi- The ura.f-d rht- to adopt a resoiutiou ASK- ing ihc of nfttiops So ban n'iclear weapons, impose intcrnationftl control atomic er.ay exert tl! toward complete abolition of war i and work to establish universal "Every nation should prohibit production, use. and expcri- mcmution of atomic and hvcirogc-n the said.

intcnuitioniil tii energy, atomic should tit 1 for peace." Tl.t- petition also said that 'any n.i'ion which in the cx- prrimentation atomic and hy- drojjwi bombs should realize its rr- sponsibiiity to immediately artd fuliv offer compensation to the injured." Aug. "25' United Nnllons and Communist officials next month will carry out the final in the Korea truce agreement exchange of wnr dcud whose remains are in enemy The Communists will deliver the bodies of 4.011, Allied -soldiers who in to tile or died in prison camps. The UN will return 14.000 bodies of Red Chinese and North Korean soldiers. Military setting up' mi elaborate; system io make positive of the Allied bodies when the exchange, called "Operation 1 'begins Sept. 1.

Even when bodies tagged with identification by the Communists. an investiantion will be made. "When the Army, notifies a m- il.V that the remains being sent home arc those of their sou, they just 1 a spokesman said. "Unless ixxsitive identification been eatahllahed a body will be considered unidentified." The bodies will bo exchanged across truce "buffer that has hostile forces since the shooting stopped in Korea last year. KtVmains of the Allied dead will bo taken to the U.S.

Army graves reKistratiori laboratory at Kokura. Japan, for exhaustive study bv anthropologists and other scientists, Every possible method of and Moving identification will, be used. Bodies of Americans which have received positive identification 'will bo sent to national or private ccm- according to the wishes of the family. Unidentified American dead will be buried jn the U.S. cemetery for unknown dead in Hawaii.

nOK dead will be returned to Korea. The dead of other UN countries will be disposed of as c-ach nation directs. The Communist have not revc.il- ed tile nationality of the 4,011 soldiers whose bodies they pla to return, nor how many will be- delivered enoh diirinj? the exchange. The UN' plans to 000 day, the maximum nTfow'ed under ihc truce agreemnt. German Track Star Deserts To East BEHUN.

Aug. 25 A West German track star who wouldn't run in the national championships because of an expense account fond has fled to East Germany. ihc Convmunists announced Wcdncwlny. East German press disclosed the defection Erich Kruzycki, former German 10,000 meter champion, who fed protesting the West's "economic need." He said he wants io "live better" in the East Zone of Germany, was the third well- known West German to seek asylum hohi'H! the Iron Curtain in a d'lonih. The others were West Cer-'.

man security chief Dr. Otto John and parliament member Krai Schmidt- Wittmack. Kruzycki got West Gernsany's highest fft-coralioni from President The odor Hcuss two years and in 1951 won the New Year's Eve international long distance vent at Sao Paulo, Brazil..