Del Rio News Herald from Del Rio, Texas • Page 1

PLEASE! After reading this paper please save it for your Paper Salvage VOL. XVH WHATHKK DEL KIO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE Ml 13 NHMBEK Resident For 30 Years Dies Of Heart Attack Last fur Mrs. charlotte Hamilton, ci, wile of K. M. Huinll- were field Wednesday niurnlng al 11 in tli- riimlly resident, 600 I.o.olla Street.

Kev. Lee L. Kpi'ropul rector, officiated and burial was made in WcsUawn Oineli ry under the direction of the Doran Funeral Home. Mrs. Hamilton died Tuesday at 5 p.m.

In a local hospital, where she was taken Friday when she suffered a heart, Horn June lit. IBH-1, in Selinn, Alabama, she ihc daughter of Mr. and A. H. Sherwood.

married t.o R. M. Hamll- ton. November 10. 1904.

in Kan Angelo. Thev ranched north o' Del Kin and have tniidc their home here for 'M include her husband riml daughters. Miss Gall Hamilton and Mrs. Roger H. Thurmond; her lather.

A. ii. pf Abilene, who was here when she became ill but had returned to Abilene before her death; two grandsons, George and Mickey Thurmond, Two brothers. njid fihi-nvood. of Tcrhungn.

CnH- fornin. and a Miss Peggy Sherwood of San AnRelo, alBo survive Miss Sherwood wits for tin- furi'rai services. Active pall bearers included C. E. M.

MrNiilt. W. F. Hum. Autrey Walker.

Tom Miller. W. J'. Wallace and 11. K.

Wilson. All ol Uw family were honoring pal! bearers. Eisenhower Receives Russian Medal Youth Convicted ian Poker 1 ase t.ANCASTKR, June 12 Jame.s John Malone, 18-year-old former collect; student, wus convicted today in Lancaster County Courts of M-conri degree murder In the Poiier" deaih of William 1'jt'iiig. Malnp.f' told the court he had read of a game, culled "Russian Poker," In which participants placed a cartridge in a revolver, twirled the cylinder, placed muzzle against their heads "in! pulled the trigger. He testified he and the Long boy me: lust.

Feb. SB in a restaurant. He iitiiuuited a game of Pdkcr and William furnished the revolver, loaded with one bullet The third pull of tlit- trigged fired the latiil Hhot. Joseph postiioncd of Malone, pending dls- po'Ition of motion for new trial, Itl.JI.CTS INVITATION I'AUIS. June 13 A diplomatic rei'oit today said the United wnt 1'Taivi; a friendly note etui 1 1 General Charles de Gaulle's invitation to the proposed live-nation conference on Middle Kastern problems.

Official sources refused comment. Marshal of the Soviet Unicfn, Gregory Zhukov, presents the "Order of Victory" (Highest Russian Military Award held by only seven top ranking Russian field to General I I Elsenhower. (Signal Corps Photo from NEA Telephoto t. Fifty-Nine Boys Scouts And Cubs Receive Eisenhower Award For Paper Salvage At Laughlin Review MEATS, Red Stamps F2, G'A, H3, J'J, Ijooil to June. Dp.

Heil Stumps K2 through P2, good to July 31. Red Slump Q'J through U2 good to August 31. lied Stamps V'a through Z3. Blue Stamps N2, P2, Q3, K3, S3 good to June 30. ISltn; stamps T2 through X2, good to July 31.

Hlue stumps Ya through Cl uood lo Aiujtif.t 31. Blue st.uii|M Y2, Z'J. Al UUd Bl, tjooil to August 31. KtfClAK--atauip 2b tjuod to Juna at' through Aug. 31.

"'(1ASOUNK--A-15 coupons good fw f(Utr guiloiiB. BMOliS AUpUuw staniiM 1, 3, isnd 8 ijj Fourteen Hurt On Roller Coaster BALTIMORE. June 12 Fourteen person were injured today when one car on the Carton's Park roller coastt-r stalled near the peak of rise 60 feet above ground ancl second car plunged inUi it. None of the victims, all of whom were from Baltimore, were critically hurt. Two suffered leg fractures.

With the exception of a few who had to be carried to the ground by park the Injured made their way down via a catwalk from the nicer-dip structure. Several am bulunces took them to the West Baltimore General Hospital. Police reported employes of the ride knew the crash was coming several seconds before jt happened but coulcS do nothing about it, A mechanical defect was blamed for stalling the car. Shortage Of Cars CHICAGO, June 11 The I-'c Railway's superintendent of transportation. J.

j. Mnhoney, declined. today the road is "facing the darkest prospect for box curs In which to move grain that we huvc ever hud." In statement after release of government report predicting a winter wheat crop of bushels -the largest ever produced asserted "For the first time In my years with the Bantu we do not have backlog of empty curs stored in the wheat belt. For years the western roud.s have stored from 20,000 to 30,000 cars with which to handle this annual grain movement. Today we are using every car we can our hunda on and wo still are, moving last year's crop." Mahoney maid thu road was.

using gondolas and stock and refrigerator cars in un attempt to relieve the shortage. Two hundred gondolas lire being fitted with steel roofs and will bo used in shuttle service between southwestern terminnls and. gulf he added. VAUL FATAL OOHSfOANA, June 13 MV-A Sfuil on the stairway of Iwr home caused the Usatli ytitt-rduy of Mrs. Wattle Jf.

Knox, 70, wife or City Judge Gilds L. Knox. Fifty-nine Boy Scouts and Cubs received the Eisenhower Award for paper salvage work at a military review Wednesday morning at. Luughlln Field. Colonel Emmelt F.

Yost, commanding officer, made the awards. Boy Scouts from Rocksprlims and Brackettville as well as from Del Rio received the award from Colonel Yost. Hoys from in addition to the individual awards, received decorated case for each one having gathered 1,000 pounds of paper. After the awards. -Hoy Scouts, Cubs and leaders were guests at breakfast in the Officers' Mess at the field.

CHINK RECAPTIJRK JUIAN CHUNGKING. June K) -Chinese following up the Japanese! withdrawal from the Foochow area today recaptured Jiiian, 15 miles of Wenchow. Earlier the Chinese high command announced the recapture of Hoyun. K). i miles northeast of Canton, but officially the Japanese had regained him.

western bastion of Linehow. The Chinese reported evacuation of the town June 11. The Japanese withdrawal from the Foochow area left Umoy t.hc only enemy pocket in Fukien Province. The Chinese are pushing toward Wenchow. JAPSFIREWFST BORNEO'S RICH SERIA OIL FIELD BRUNEI HAY, Borneo.

June 13 Japanese, anticipating defeat, fired west Borneo's rich Seria oil field storage tanks last night a.s the Allies did before the Nipponese captured the Island early In the war. Associated Press War Correspondent James Hutcheson counted 18 fires lighting the China Sea like bright moonlight. Seria Is 60 miles of the point of the Australian landing three days ago on the Borneo mainland. TODAY'S WAR MAP 7 1 1 5 uruAN BR 4'" fifunci 0 BORNEO Mo.o' 1 nn Wo(l 0 DUTCH BORNEO St- BcMmgJ j- 'l-- iomor.ndn 1 VMong tJ tte bu Pohonbotu llPoiii; i 8 loV CEl MofcfHt jlL MINDANAO UWI 7AW1 63 ct j- 1 MtnodpO Gu" o' fomrni SOELA IS Japs on oil rich Bonn are coasl with the new Australian squeezed between Tarakan mva.Mon of Labuan. i NEA Telc- and off Hie coast and La- map 1 buan Island off (he northwest Phone Demonstrations Given For Rotarians TRAFFIC OVER RIO "orpr Ernest Views Testifies In Inipe; Trial BISMARCK, N.

June 12 J. C. Minot, N. automobile dealer, testified today in the impeachment trial of state 'insurance commissioner Oscar K. L'rickson (hat Erickson paid him In full lor a car which Krickson purchased from him In 1930.

Bialsdell denied that, the difference between the price of the new car and the trade-in value of Erlck- son's old car was taken care of by an alleged "kickback" on commissions received by his father. J. C. Bialsdell, of Minot. on reinsurance business placed by the insurance department with the elder Bials- dell.

Otto R. Void, former manager of the fire and tornado division of the insurance department and the prosecution's witness against Krick- son, previously had testified that both he and Erickson had traded automobiles with Bhdsbdl and that the major portion of the difference in values wus taken care of by a reinsurance commission "kickback" from the elder Bialsdell. Bialsdell admitted on cross-examination by Prosecuting Attorney Scott Cameron that he solintad reinsurance business from (lie insurance department in his father's behalf but denied that suoh solivita- tlon hud uny connection with the automobile transaction. Blalsiiell ill EricUson.had been buying cars for him Miwie 1U28 or 1037. AN EIGHTH AIR FORCE VICE COMMAND STATION.

Eng- land i.Sp.i The Japan of tomorrow wns mirrored in the targets of terday for Corporal Eriu-st Howard. i E'agle Pats. Texas, as he, with nine other ground crew members of the I Eighth Air Force Service Command with whom he ha.s served, flew over devastated and defeated Germany in a B-17 Flying Fortress on an eight hour "sightseeing mission" to witness the great, part they played I in the eventual victory over Hitler's Germany. From altitudes ranging from a couple of thousand feet to tree-top level in ideal weather, the -skeleton crew and it.s passengers' saw the results of 30 months of in- tensive strategic bombing. The men were all "briefed" on what they would see on the flight over the Ruhr Valley which was once considered one of the most highly industrialized areas in the world.

Airmen referred t.o it us "Flak Valley" due to the very heavy concentration of anti-aircraft defenses, The flight covered approximately 1,000 round trip and the men flew over parts of England. Belgium, Holland, and Germany. The Reich's ruins the heavily bombed marshalling yards, transportation, industrial centers, and destroyed bridges were given special attention on this flight. A veteran of 2(5 months in the European Theatre of Operations. Corporal Howard was graduated from Del Rio, Texas High School and entered the Army 19-12 nt Peoria, Illinois.

BIG THREE ALREADY SET WASHINGTON. June 13 President Harry S. Truman announced today the Big Three- meeting has been set. but he could no! announce the time and place until his arrival there. The President also told newsmen he expected the meeting in Moscow Friday to work out.

the unified Polish government on a broad base io produce results. He said he planned taking to Moscow Secretary of State St.ettinitis, James F. Byrnes. Harry Hopkins and Davies. He told reporters today he asked Cordell Hull to go to San Francisco with him for the closing session of the World Security Conference the President said.

Hull fell his, health would not permit. i operations and developments were presented at. a special program at the Rotary Club luncheon Wednesday at noon in the Roswell Hotel. i J. A.

Forman wa.s in charge of program and introduced Ben Smith i i of San Antonio, who showed an orl- ginal model of Alexander Graham I Bell's telephone. Smith said telephone materials i have gone to war and there are many shortages. He demonstrated travels over the wire between Paul Poag and Autrey Walker illustrated his remarks. Smith reported 16,000 calls are I made daily in Del Rio with the Several days will probably pass before a ramp can be constructed for traffic over the International Bridge over the Rio Grande lollowini: the fire Mondav night, which destroyed all of the wooden approach, officers of the Bridge Company, owners of (he structure, Wednesday. An insurance adjuster, expected Tuesday, was said to be here Wednesday to complete his inspection of the ruined structure and materials will have to be secured alter lie is through.

Possibility of re-building the entire approach is very indefinite, bridge officials said, because of sear- city of the needed materials. Telephone to Villa Acuna was disrupted by the fire but electricity wired to the city at. a point some distance from the bridge is available. When the ramp is constructed, traffic will be routed down a lane across the vega, up the ramp and over the bridge. A similar system was used in 1932.

when the approach was washed out by a Rio Grande flood. Pro-Dawn Attacks On Both Flanks Of Yaeju Plateau GUAM. 13 i.v,.. Simultaneous American prc-dawn attacks on both flanks ol the Yarju Plateau caught the napping and apparently cracked the enemy's ditch Okinawa delin.se line, front, dispatches reported today. (LIMB KlIHii: OKINAWA.

June -Dough- of the 7t.li Infantry Division climbed hand over hand on a rope, way up a sheer ridge, the Nip- Nine Ships Home feet high the other A tank "oast Workers Ordered To Stop Picketing i. The Board CWtt'i'IN CANBERRA, Australia, June Prime Minister J. Jhii'ley awnounced, today s.0nl,stui' John Our tin buffered Dif Truman Hopes OWI Budget To Be Restored WASHINGTON, June 13 President Harry S. Truman expressed the hope today that Congress would restore the entire budget estimate for tin- Office of Wav Information, which the House sharply slashed. He told his news conference in his judgment the OWI i.s doing a job needed done in the interest of nation still lighting war far from over.

DALLAS. June 12 Eighth Regional War Labor tonight ordered all picketing and work at the Brown Ship- 1 building Corporation. Houston, and i than during i the Magnolia Airco Gas Products One period. Company, Houston, to eea.se a.s a labor dispute threatened to involve shipyards from the Southern Atlantic coast, to the Gulf. Clifford W.

Potter, director of the Regional WLH, said he wa.s informed by J. T. Davis, secretary of the Houston Metal Trades Council lAFLi that AFL unions in shipyards from Charle ton, S. to Brownsville, Tex. had been asked (o place on the union unfair list all yards doing business with Magnolia Airco and its parent organixa- tion, Air Reduction Sales Corporation.

Potter said he received a telegram tonight, bearing the signature of R. R. Clark, personnel director of Penn Shipyard-, Beaumont, which slated the yards would be compelled to cease operations within the next few hours unless i operators answering within 10 seconds. He quoted statistics on local calls and showed cables with 3.600 wires for underground use. Smith said 1,200 telephones for each battleship must, be installed to meet the needs and explained how the com- I pany developed the throat microphone to free the hands of combat 1 pilot--.

A telephone for front line use was demonstrated, its ring sounding like the noise made by a bullet. Smith the telephone could be con! nected on an ordinary fence wire II it were in a continuous line, the voice generating enough electricity for operation. In five vears. the company made 5,000.000 telephones, a million and a half microphones and a million headsets. In just two weeks in 1944 the compiMiv made more equipment the entire World War Fifty-two are employed in Del Rio anrl Smith showed how the voices of operators are recorded on metallic tape for testing.

Guests included Starr Bell. Landon Hobert.s, M. L. Wallen. Eugene Palmer.

Marjorie Thomson. Char- Rajnscv. Lola May Jolly. Jame.s L. Adams.

W. K. Fra- Burris. L. Rust, P.

R. K. II. Word. -C- G.

Allen, John Miller, Mrs. NEW YORK, June 12 ships today brought from the European theatre of operations 16.845 troops, setting an all-time record how the voice for a single day's arrivals in the and a dialogue 1 of New York. Largest load of returning soldiers was aboard the giant Navy transport William S. Benson which carried 5,012 liberated prisoners and 184 members of the 97th Infantry Division headquarters staff. Another large contingent, comprising 2.716 former war prisoners and 27S reassigned troops, was aboard the Army transport Marine Robin.

Several hours later the U. S. S. General Squier and the S. S.

Sea Porpoise pulled into the fog-shrouded harbor to unload between them 6.881 troops. The ships carried men from the First, Fourth and 45th Divisions, the Third Ranger Division, the Fourth. Seventh and Ninth armored division and airmen shot down over Germany. Three rust-encrusted Liberties also arrived from the Mediterranean James Hoban. the Joseph and the Hillarv Herbert.

The Hob, 18 days out of Marseilles, had on it.s passenger list veterans of Gen. George S. Pat Ion's victorious Third Army. There were battle-hardened 'Jflth Division infantrymen and members of the fMlli Division and the Eighth and Ninth. Air Forces.

Aboard the Robinson. 21 days nut of Naples, were Fifth Army men. among whom were elements of the; 24th. fifith and including some Japanese Americans. I The Herbert.

also out of Naples. 1 largely transported members ol Hie' Fifteenth Air Force. i much of tin to reach the summit of Hill 9f soiitheaMern anchor of the ponese la.M-stand line. Two Dominic of I.i-.- Angeles, and Tony Kris- ich of San Francisco, led a platoon straight up the escarpment over a narrow craggy path. After the two Doughboys reached the top and tied a rope around a huge boulder, others climbed the rope with ammunition and wna- cliinegiins strapped to the.ir backs.

A company commanded by Capt. Da 11 us D. Thomas, Shawnee. and Torrington, sent two platoons up first, and they were followed bv a company led by Lt. Joe Odenbrett of Melrosc.

Minn. Odenbrelt's men went to the left, and Thomas' to the right, along the nose-like ridge, which is about 50 and spreads 500 yards at end. of Capt, Tony Nien.eyer, Grand carried a 200- foot hose with a flame thrower on the end to the escarpment's top, As it wa.s advancing, tanks and infantrymen raked the escarpment with machinegun and rifle fire. A.s soon a.s the flame thrower went into action. Thomas' platoons scrambled up the side of Hill 95 arid got.

a foothold. Within an hour and a half, the Japanese counterattacked unsuccessfully. To lav the hose up the escarpment. Nirrncycr's men had to stop every 50 teet to couple it. He and Lt.

Frank Davis rammed the hose into coves and then ignited the fuel by hurling grenades into the mouth. A medium tank platoon of Lt. Tollev Woodlcv, Tulsa. followed tin' name-throwing tanks up to help knock out the caves. Hill 9.

i was described by one soldier as much like a Scottish moor with fleep grass, jagged rocks and many walls of ly constructed stone, although poor- Railway Gets Okay On Line To Long WASHINGTON. June 111 Tin Ali-ln --on Topeka and Santa I-'e Rail- Co. was authorised by the Tn- lerslale 'artv 13 Crown lieutenant general factor in Italy's political problem the absence of election for an accurate gauge of popular sentiment. OF SifcXJE IIKCLAUEU BOGATA, Juno 13 government decree yesterday declared June Prince Umberlo. of i he realm, began consultations llu 1 11 iwilli Italian party heads today af- made wit the Teamsters Union mR Iinn mi sj( Ililti iu allow Linde Air products Hous- l() so V( th( im lm Ion.

lex to dehver oxygen gas to nnl thl yal The major A similar situation exists at the Todd Galveston Shipyards, Potter said a Todd official Informed him in telephone conversation. He said the official told him only a few hours' supply of oxygen gas was a- vailnble. It wa.s not immediately clear why Linde products- involved in the dispute. Magnolia Airco and Air Reduction Sales Companies sell burning ami welding gases for use in shipyards. Tin; WLB directives tonight provided that if they were not heeded by the Metal Trades Council and thu Houston Local Qt-ueral Warehousemen urul Union of alt-Be in Bogota, Columbian i (AFL) by 10 a.m.

Thursday the distal, becuusa "public order hua putea would be referred to the na ulaturlwd." I Uonal WLB fuv action, Del Rio Weather Information Furnished by I'. S. Oerit. of Commerce. Weather liurruu.

DKL RIO AND VICINITY: Fair and somewhat warmer tonight ami Thursday. Maximum temperature yesterday, minimum temperature 02. Minimum temperature this morning, CV. WEST TKAXS: "West of 100th Meridian:" Fair afternoon, tonight unit Sergeant At Laughlin Gels ay Staff Sergeant Durland Mustain Jr. of Laughlin Field wa.s awarded the Distinguished Fixing Cross In Colonel Emmet t.

F. Yost, commanding officer, military review Wednesday morning. Sergeant Mustaln's award was for meritorious service in the European Theatre of Operations. He is the of Mr. and Mrs.

Durlan Mustain of Fort Springs, West Virginia. A. MAGAZINE'S MUST EUITOK PHILADELPHIA. June 11 Herbert Wise, lirst. editor ol the Magazine "House ami Garden." died unexpectedly tonight in Hit; Friends Library on the eve of his 72nd birthday.

Wise, who was alto a former part owner of the magazine "Indoors and cd the hope the House rules Out," utui a contributor to many architectural peiiodic.uli and tl'e lin- eyclopedia Brittiinlea, jx-th'tii live (he hiough 1 ion lirlori- I he end of the war The commission said that through I he exl ension the Santa Fe would In- enahli-d to serve Long Beach on terms with the Union Pacilie un hern Pacilieirailroad-. This, mmission "would he ol benrln in improved rerviee elimination ol delavs and lion of trail if inicidential lo interchange ot trali'ic that is now v.iiry" iiiul added: "It i.s clear thai the ability ol.the Union Pacilie, the Southern Pacific and Ihi Pacitic F.leclrie to serve Long Heach and the public generally will not be 'Impaired or lessened by this construction. 'Long Heach has grown to be a city ot 250.000 people and many industries, and service by all the trunk lines already serving the eoa- tigious part oi tin? harbor area Is needed In assure the city's continued and growth." IIOI'KS FOll VO'i'ti WASHINGTON, June 13 Pivsidi'nt Hairy a. Truman ropc-at- committee will give tho House a uhauct: to votn on leulbhuion making pt'r- munciu the i'Vilerul i-'uir Kinploy- latat 1'4'uutlci.