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ITHER cloudy with showers hi and Wednesday. Wanner tonight, southeast'winds, becoming fresh NO. J9! REMEMBER- NO POLL TAX NO VOICE! BAYTOWN, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1950 RYE CENTS A COPT OW TO FINANCE STATE PLANS ASKED Jjrms May Be Able To luy U. S. Synthetic lubber Plants Here Wallace Star Witness for Atomic Probe Survey Shows NAVY UNIFICATION FOES TRANSFERRED TO NEW JOBS President To ivernment synthetic rubber plants in Baytown purchased by the companies now operating: them "Congress approves President Truman's recomiienda- nce Mutual Commentator to United Press accounts, the president WASHINGTON, Jan.

17. aii asking for authonty to sell the government's 28 syn- (U.P.)— The House un- The question of whether repris- iic rubber plants to responsible private owners "under American Activities Com- idiiions which will protect the national interest and mittee will reopen its atomic aote effective competition." hearings next Tuesday, with Humble Oil and Refining Company operates the gov- former Vice President Henry ineuvers in sent's RuR and RuR plants in Baytown whiie LerafTire and Rubber Company iraies a plant making "GR-S" rubber. Company men are to operating the plants 3th companies have stated they be willing to purchase the his from the government if giv- onportunity. RuR SR-43 produces rubber, used primarily in Blanket Of Clouds And Fog Covers Most of Texas A. Wallace as the star witness.

Representative Richard M. Nixon, California, a committee member, said Wallace will have his chance to answer charges Ohio And Tributaries by Mutual Commentator Fulton Rus Toward Big River 17. als were taken against them by forthcoming joint ties over the B-36 and unification ls numbers Congress are Crommelin cc UIIllrm have been transferred to new debating. But at a minimum, there aid F. Bogan are "known! been remarkable coinciden- The congressmen are interested Prussian general staff methods, jin.

learning whether any He now is an air officer on the icers were punished for staff of Vice Admiral George against unification pol- Murray, commander of the Force 36 SU P- era sea frontier, erbomber. Their chief concern has been the ouster of Admiral Louis gan ho commallded E. as.chief of naval op- flrs task fle ln erations after 'he' supported the 7 letterYto "rebels." Navy Secretary Francis P. Matthews, attacking unification Crommelin made the letter Valley Mobilized To Rght Floods Tofiive ions has Lewis, that he cleared wartime And -VT" 4.1, Wal's (EE)-The lower -obilized today the Navy a number of other officers pubTic. slated for ales- linked lyith B-36 and of ser post but "he may retire in- including stead.

did not testify before Denfeld was offered the command of. U. S. naval forces in 1 unpublicized case is that of Europe after his ouster. But he Tennessee Commander Thomas D.

Da vies, probably -will retire-instead. a Joined the rampaging Wa- the young aviator and engineer H. to race Dash and oh vers ow an( on who holds the world's of 11,236 CHIEF Markgraf, Soviet sector Berlin police chief, who made so many uisapiM-ar, has disappeared himself. Reports Mnsist that the 39-year-old 3Iarkgraf may ns inner tubes and its con- has been well above gov- Extreme Clear By PRESS Dasn and ohio in lowland on- holds the world's distance Atlantic- fleet -commander, and of two compounds used in Only the Panhandle and extreme sou rc es Underpresent planshe of 236 in a Nep- Thomas C. Kinkaid, eastern sea fracturing GR-S synthetics, western sections of Texas escaped said Lewis be called to the first tna Mississippi tune Patrol bomber.

frontier commander going, to 'bible butadiene is sold to the today from a blanket of clouds, testify. River alert since 1937, Army engi- Davies was a boy plant here for its with accompanying fog and driz- Gloves wartime head of the of synthetics, zle. lauded in a Russian. prison, but Berlin authorities deny he is in disfavor. Gone since October, he was expected back by Christmas but failed to show up.

(International) neers warne southeastern around Navy' until Rebel Miners Seek which kept temperatures atomic bomb project, will testify residents that they may a court of inquiry investigated the leral purpose product used for above expected sub-freezing levels, the dav after Wallace. During com- flave flee their lives. celebrated "anonymous" document items, including automobile From the South Plains south- mittee" hearings last month, Groves The order also alerted thousands attacking the capabilities of the track tires. This type has been ward and eastward the state was said no one ever pressured him to of residents of Kentucky, Illinois -38. to sell because it now costs enveloped in dreary, murky wea- send atomic materials or informa- Tennessee to prepare for high The court's findings have not ik i than natural rubber and the ther that wasn't expected to move tion to Russia.

waters. been made public. But Davis re- Jll OTI Ofl" he is prejudiced against it on out a miaor cojd front due But he told newsm en later that Hundreds of lowland residents in eently was transferred to the oasis of its unsatisfactory oual- in the anha ndle tonight edged he deliberately withheld from Wai- the three states were evacuated to- station at Sand Point, Se- ly in tne war. across the state. lace vice president, some re- day.

attle, for a job that is minor com- PITTSBURGH, Jan. 17. (HE) the president might have to send JL mvns 1 Temperatures were comparative- Ports on the development of the Snow fell from the Great Lakes ar with the assignments he miners picketed pits justice department lawyers to court piOGUCing tne majOr A iT-- -fVxi -FJolrlc aimimzr TTTYTW OM-tr -mtviiifo. (23 in representing a government in- ment of 5472,632,000.) r. Truman proposed to sell both la a nts are -oduo cTimbed atomic shipments to Russia can Washing SShe the 60's.

to on a stand-by basis Weather bureau observers said anyonej he said "but to place the w'nrt seaboard on susty Ipped to produce it. The op- it was too early to determine how responsibiiitv for shipments of wlnas jag plants are at Akron. Ohio; the new cold front might affect uran um to'Russia so that. If the Colonel Louis H. JToote, district Charles and Baton" Rouge, Texas, but so far indications were respons ibi parties are still in.

the Arl engineer, warned southeast csiana; Port rseches, Houston, it would not be severe. government," they can be held ac- Missouri residents from the Arkan- and Baytown. and Nauga- The of cold air sta- countable." sas Iine 101 1 to 19 miles above Connecticut, The standby -tionarv over the Northern Rock- in congress: Cairo, Illinois, that they will have is are at Port Heches, Insti- i cs 'expected to move east William E. Jen- to abandon homes'- in the "said in a pre- Mississippi- 1 bottoms 'if the mild with Dalhart's 29'degrees A-bomb. westward the storm-weary Pa- had here He worked for a time throughout the coal fields today against the XJilVV "at any minute." the lowest reported.

Clarendon and Representative Harold H. Velde, cifie jSTorthwest, and localized bliz- under Cedric R. Worth, who re- They said the lawyers would ask Salt Flat recorded degree lows Uluiois, said the committee zards blasted some areas. signed as assistant to Under-sec- no cb'fitract, no'work" coal strike, a Taft-Hartley injunction to force but elsewhere" the stood considers it Sub-zero cold gripped the north- reta Dan'A. Kimball after Seizing the initiative from John is 4 1 010 8 46 in the 40's and 50's except in deep lfc a ern border states from Michigan mittin he wrote the "anon- L.

Lewis, the rank-and-file miners Texas getting only a touch ner, Indiana said in a. pre- a full five-day document. hoped to close down the entire coal also was learned that Robert 0 information sec- 68,000 miners six "jj Oped to act soon lA all the-neadlines and that daily and raising new complaints agreed, -with Worth that no of critical coal shortages. one-week could as good as the. Government labor.

coal "operators -who said to be. He -now is Washington said a suecial report fj their credit at company -T-ii -1. J.W., 1 ill" A Operatmg 2) the frigid temperatures. pared Senate' speech that the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway assigned to the Atlantic fleet as from the. Bureau of Mines showed r-tiina cnntnnrmsr to be opened.

"an information officer in the that coal supplies are now so low ont Beivieu Man Clayton Proposes Lead Scout Trip Anti-Red Union East Harris Boys Affend Jamboree Former State Official Urges Bold U.S. Policy China is convincing nas co De opened, proof that-the bi-partisan foreign. Opening the floodway just below policy should be abandoned. The Cairo would flood 130,000 acres of bi-partisan approach; he said, is farm arid tirrifaerland, overrun a a "gigantic hoax' and evidence, is number of small communities and mounting daily to show that It is. affect an estimated 12,000 persons, AmoEg this evidence, he said, are But it would free much water "the discussions on this Senate from the Mississippi's main chan- Storm May Bring T-H Action Would Cut Union Supply Company, A 0.S1 Steel Corporation subsidiary operating 100 stores in mining communities of Western Pennsylvania, cut-off to.

striking miners yesterday for the first time since the contract dispute started. Officials of Champion Coal Corn- floor of the debacle which our pro- nel and ieduce the pressure on the WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. scale wildcat strike, despite Lewis' paT1 stores of Pittsburgh Consoli- Communist state department policy river's levee system. big blizzard" could force suggestion that they return to dation Coal Company -world's lairg- has brought about in China." The weather bureau predicted a President Truman to seek a Taft- jobs.

7 55 or 56 feet i iy. Flood stage est commercial, producer, were con, Oleo The Senate was set to vote stage of 55 or 56 feet at Cairo by Hartley Act injunction against the Mr. Truman, told Senate Dem- siderintr E. Smith ofMont DALLAS, Jan. 17 OIE)-A bold, tod on a dai state substitute thert wildcat coal strike and John L.

ocratic Leader Scott W. Lucas on- Soy Scout Troop ,105 w.11 dynamic ana Posiuve for the House-approved Ml to re- feet. Lewis' three-day work week, go Harris County Scouts meet the spread of Communism peal federal taxes Qn oleomargar Dowllr i veri tte Mississippi broke ernment officials said today. National Jamboree at Val- was urged today by a former cabi- forge, Pennsylvania, next June, net official. jilh, former Scoutmaster of W.

L. Clayton, Houston cotton town Troop 101, was selected broker and former assistant secre- ie position of Jamboree Troop tary of state for economic affairs, atmaster at a meeting of the in "a delivery Harris District Scouter before the Dallas Kiwanis Club, ndtable last night at Horace said federal union was the path Junior High School. He has to permanent world peace, i a Scoutmaster for 10 years. Clayton is vice president of the R. Dooineyer, Scoutmaster Atlantic Union a group ip 301 in Greens will which favors federal union, with- Do Not irst assistant scoutmaster for in the framework of the United tap.

An Eagle Scout, Dpbmey- Nations, of signatories to the City officials today had thrown as had 12 years' experience as North Atlantic treaty. a block into Humble Oil and Re- coutmaster. He recalled that Lenin and Sta- fining Company's plans for a new Atoniic 2) Stop Work Ordered On Humble Station Says Building Plans 's Code ly yesterday that he is still not convinced the coal crisis is a na- of crdt "htrt Most of hem Aiost or tnem through a levee at Eloise, Tennes- Even under present conditions, tional emergency as yet. Lucas depended heav.ilv on credit to tide see, and fanned out over farm- they said, special reports from the and other legislators have de- th em through strike periods, lands. Bureau Mines show coal con- manded that the president take But miners said theye were more Some 400 or 500 families were ditions are so low that Mr.

Tru- anti-strike action under the Taft- determined than to win. the driven from their homes by the man may have to send the Jus- Hartley law. contract battle. rising waters. tice Department into court for an General Counsel Robert N.

Den- "We may as well starve to death In Kentucky, the Tradewater, injunction "at any moment." ham of the National Labor Rela- quickly as" to starve to death slow- Cumberland and Green rivers rush- They said if the "White House tions Board is also keeping a close i ne miner at Rices landing, ed toward a turbulent junction with decides such a move is necessary, eye on the situation. Labor sourc- Pennsylvania, OTiin the Justice Department will ask es said Denham may decide in was rising an the court to force the 400,000 soft the next day or so if Lewis' three- an hour, and was expected to coal miners to work a full five- day work week constitutes an at 'Sturgis tomorrow at 59 day week. fair labor practice. inches higher than dur- rhe tulk of nPrg have Denham decides that it does, serious flood of 1945. they said, he will take advantage Hlgh wters lefc famihes bee onlv davs a thr-e flajs of tfae Taft Haltley act to ask closed the two week since December 5.

But some cour to compel the miners city. 68,000 are now engaged in a full to work a full five-day -week. Pair-Say Prayer Saved Them In Wild Ride LO Jlont Beivieu. Page 2) OUND TOWN ky and nauch more effective," AND FOUND: B. se w-rites from Liberty that lost a Mexican-style Purse in Baytown when her came open.

The purse a black billfold with ct her social security card. impact with Eastern s'tar on Bayless' Funeral To Be In Cleburne A. C. (Tex) Bayless, -agent for the Southland Life In- New Uniforms edFor Lee Band The Robert K. Lee High School band will step out this spring looking like the most favored troops of the Confederacy during its greatest glory.

Y. Jan. 17. (CE) ed into a hugh trailer-truck north- watosa business street at grade, New uniforms for the band were which" l'-Tnch masonry Two railroadmen admitted today west of nere. ran parallel to another business selected last night by trustees of walls on any new" buildings Alid- that they prayed "out loud" as The impact wrenched the diesel street for several blocks, and on Baytown's schools.

dleton said the Humble plans'only their diesel took them loose from the rest of the train and into Milwaukee after roaring The trustees followed the rec- called for eight-inch walls. on a loO-mile-an-hour runaway impaled the trailer's, wreckage on through four freight yards. mendatiohs of Superintendent of "The fire insurance rate for every for 22 miles through the heart its nose. The truck's driver, James We prayed specifically to pass Schools George H. Gentry and building in the area would go up-if of Milwaukee.

Rateliffe, 45 Kewaunee, Illinois, each obstacle as we came toward Band Director J. C. Burkett in Dra out Ioud sa ld was Bossed clear, uninjured. prayed awarding the contract to Sol Frank Jordan, 69. I yelled The collision occurred on a to pass" those-curves, then we pray- Company of San Antonio at a per fireman to pray out loud long down grade and the diesel, its ed that all the grade crossings uniform price of S64.50 although assistant for the expedi- lin told the world what they would an ultramodern service station nl ers will be Jim Arnold of Bay- do to it, "just as Hitler, did, but at the corner of Texas and.

Main. om eiess explorer adviser of Explorer nobody believed Hitler, and few City Manager C. D. Middleton entrances lo "is Arnold is also an Eagle believe Stalin." said today that a stop work or- and has had five years' ex- Clayton "described Stalin as "a de i- had been issued, on the as Scoutmaster. much shrewder, abler man than plus project after city officials nervations.

are now being tak- Hitler ever "was. Guided by Orien- found that plans for the station do or the trip, according to Scout tal cunning, he works with a 'newYnot conform to the city's building TV I CA TL I 1 technique-tne coid war-boring code for hat area. Iravels ioUMrn I nrouqh He a IT Ut Mi Iwaukee from within-less costly, less ris- The site the proposed super- station is in the No. 1 fire zone, Milwaukee. Rateliffe, we permitted them to put up eight- I ud sai was tossed clear, uninjured, general the city manager pointed out.

too. The company will be allowed to Ur raTers were an brake system smashed out of or- would be clear. After that, we pray- the Redman's Uniform Company continue construction on tanks and swered der, began picking speed. Train- ed that we'd get around the sharp of Houston had submitted a low- on the identification 3 Xa other auxiliary equipment, he said. Fireman Benjamin Fuelleman men in the following units used south Malwaukee er bid of $53.70.

is. Mary Martin mQ Jack Sf. 1 at t-ie- Kumble spokesmen today were was convinced that it was only the the emergency brakes to stop as station." Both firms had submitted sam- HI ls unable to say whether- the com- power of prayer that saved their the diesel tore on out of sight. The engine swayed dangerously P'e uniforms for inspection at last The funeral will be pany win change its specifications lives. Meanwhile, the trainmen in the around the curve but stayed up-Bight's meeting.

of tae tioly oomtort to con orm ith the citv rules. A Jordan and Fuelleman's big die- Olympian flashed the word ahead right as it careened oyer the Mil- Gentry pointed out that Sol BULIMIC 10 1 was hauling the Milwaukee about the runaway and Milwaukee waukee River bridge. Frank uniforms of better wno was wen OY 0 oH a thP road's fast Olympian Hiawatha to- road officials ordered all tracks "We sure were irlad to see that workmanship in the sexving. Mrs. Barge will' be to settle for the purse and at 'Soney 3 the keCP in Clebume, Brawner of Morrell reports that dog has had marsv civic interests land warns that chil- coming to Houston in 1920 The over the problem with the city to eat any poisoned first yea in Houston he sold fathers, however, may find lying around.

000,000 worth of insurance and is recovering, she said, averaged that amount: lor the 20 its condition was discover- years he was general agent for the company. i 3 Fentiman "count- His brother, Joe H. Bayless lives at 3310 Wisconsin, SL last th ree numbers of who 1 mb nd looll is the Baytoxvn representative for MAHANOY CITY, Jan. 17. (TIE) Jts "perjury-conspiracy" case ard a 1 surance the hla nd Ills ra ce3 -Rescue workers inched slowly to-: nst Leader Harrv But Jordan and Fuelleman, not knowing this, hastily wrote messages on scraps of paper which tossed off as the engine tore through the village of Elm Grove and the big suburb of Wauwatosa.

SAN Jan. 17. The runaway engine had the ap- The.U.S. government abruptly rest- pearance of a fire-breathing dra- U.S. Rests Case Against Longshoreman Bridges Congress Warned ress higher grade material and better construction in the coat lining, better pants, construction and more 'durable material in pockets and: waist lining.

He said he believed the Sol Frank uniform would last much longer. The Sol Frank firm made the present Lee band uniforms which have Special Session To Decide Tax Melhod For Hospifal- Improvement Program Jan. 17. Governor Allan Shivers day invited the 7,500,000 i people of Texas to tell 'MinN how the state should finance, its rnulti-million dollar Hospital improvement The governor-tola report- 1 ers he wanted to know "how: the people feel." -v-. He has called a special money-- raising of the legislature" for 31.

Befors it meets, he said he all the advice he The governor pointed out "that" "experts have our state mental; hospitals the worst It wiH take at least 000,000 to feed and-cloThe bur state' wards during th.e next year and start ah improvement: He said he' was asking the peo- ple of Texas, you think" this' state spending, If responsibility, it?" "We not: have the money available liow. for this or any other- he "If you. the state should take care of -V people, do you think it into debt raise the money with. Y-: Then the governor posed a that he the sens to 'answer. -'If you think- more taxes should'Y be levied to take care of "these unfortunates, who should additional as' i'figiire come "very the final amount Yv'i He met last night, he at.the mansion with some 30 representa- tives included men from -s?" -'Ss-J: thatY should 'be done J-! The governor indicated there -was no specific agreement on any ticular method: of Some, he sla-sh-; ing present- appropriations.

suggestions, he said, did not specify any particular'appropriations. said; indicated that if a tax was necessary, they favored a. broad-based tax, similar jto-the present omnibus tax biO, lee Drive Byilding iSSeen County; ScKool Boaird Iron Out Differences The county and the school board today had ironed out the- last of. their differences the propos- ed E. Lee Drive town arid Commissioner Hugh A.

May said the project may construction bids by April. The filial agreement reach- ed at a conference night tween May and the Baytowa schools in the district ad- i Although, the trustees approved. the location of the drive, President Theo Wilburn said they did not- the proposed drainage ditches to parallel road, especiallyYwhere it circles 1 the site for future Lee Y'. May assured the board there wiil be no open ditches, providing- the- school district grants easements to idean existing. drainage ditches in The county commissioner he is ready: to start securing rights of way for the.

section of the X038- j' mile road which not be -6n school property. "We'll do our dead level to let'bids on this by May said. Construction the Yroad (See Lee Drive, Pasre 2) they never saw the notes. G. Scott assuring panv.

Other survivors include two 'of "solid' a ainst LWfcshore Leader Harry Showers of sparks shot from warned Congress that peptics-that he knows what sons, James L. Bayless of Houston thrsrito-owird the suot where 25-'-Bridges yesterday amid a din of der the mass of. sheet metal plast- Kpssia 33- expanding its. efforts to doing when it comes to and A. C.

Bayless, of Seattle, year-old "Edward Burda has been defense accusations that the gov- ered to the-engine's nose from the Produce high-speed, long-range air- TX7o Tl Vl Je tVlrtf 'W'PSC Band, 2) and bucks the crowd'for' o.te, bave been only a coin 22 tbut Jake Rutter sure 11 spend a lot of time on KAflC 111 FinniSH Avenue yesterday, flashing CUi I '1 IIIIIMI Roads tfrom theb om practice. The runaway rocketed around AerqnauUcs said that there, is- a 160-foot deep mine where Burda over nment's "conclusion sharp curves, crossed a main Wau- 'sen 3 ncy''about this coun-. NORFOLK, Va, Jan. IT. (EE)was imprisoned by a cave-in last I Friday came early In the 36th day of the dangerous maneuver obviously wWp ate Mine Inspector Ben Reinoehl caught the defense counsel flat- fll HADwIV State a ik to fr en a stran HELSINKI; Jan.

17. OT.E^An arc- said. "The roof We On'V where was tic cold wave with temperatures have to We don Vincent -Hallinan, chief when his ow a 22 below zero kept want lawyer, -obtained 1 recess tell, him he lukewarm voters home and The rescuers, some of whom have until today- after first unleashing, of the. year?" helped the Communists as Finland slept than. 10 vthe a new blast Tumbles about; a ar its two-day presidential el- more than'90 hours since the cave- cutor F.

Joseph Doncihue. ias reporter who: nev-- ctioh today. a pneumatic coal-chipper As: Donbhue announced -he rested hirf to --P rint groups of shivering Finn's borrowed from" -the; highway de- his case, -Hallinan leaped to his iol-th -Out trekked to the polls and when" partnient to hack'out the precar-. feet and denounced the move as be 5 WcndcHrif? ho they closed at 8 p.m. (1 p.m.-BST) ious The coal chip- peered Mr.

or Miss on 30 to "35 per cent of the pcd away had to be scooped into "The decision to rest made 500000 eligible voters were csti- buckets and by the United mated to have balloted. ty human chain. Y- Ponohua replied. ruin Here itiis jusl: January. 10 tfe seat on water wagon is already gitting mighty sHppeo try's efforts to maintain its initial The battleship advantage development on aground tcday in Hampton Roads, long-range bombers and supersonic the Navy, announced, fighters.

The Navy said there "was no ser- a said, data on to the battleship, and is being used up. as there were no reports of casualties fast, American can injuries. produce it. only battleship hi "The stakes are the still on active service, "Superior speed, in ran aground about off aircraf 5s essential to the success Thimble' Shoals, about a 'mile and of air attack as well as air defense, a half. from the-old Point Comfort- tho age; of atomic bombs it ap- Hampton Roads.

pears that no nation win a war A dozen tugboats were sent to Avithoiit control of the air." her aid. accident occurred at ebb report tb Congress. Navy said. AUSTIN, Jan. 17.

board for Texas state hospitals an'd spec- ial schools plans to be presented ial session of the which has been the state's mental hospital -'sy. The board' staff -yesterday aented a proposed range building would include ate, emergency $15,000,000 for the next fiscal Board members proposed operatm OTinting to ahnost the next v-j Staff, members that the wotsld "take care loads only." The underscored "No attempt provide'.