Denton Record-Chronicle (Newspaper) - January 6, 1953, Denton, Texas SOW YEAR of Daily Service to Denton County r Stci an 53 VUL L NO 121 DENTON TEXAS TUESDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY 6 1953 Associated Press Leased Win TEN PAGO Fight Is Seen If FUEL FOR THE the temperature dropping to near tero at night ing warm is an important problem for every man on the Korean front These men of the Seventh Infantry Division from a foraging trip on OH Baldy ing firewood back to their bunker Pvt McCoppin center is irony Hillsboro 0 and Pfc Edward Powers of 0 is at right A Korean soldier brings un the rear The line at right is to help men in their the hill AP Wirephoto ROUND GOP Set For TOWN By R J EDWARDS WASHINGTON The Senate be sent to Capitol Hill I hive set mv affection to the of my Chides o Republican command called hds ail deck its No church is perfect but it is the best influence civilization knows Hid it not been for Mrs J G Cable of Denton we might not hive known about Col Tom Cole's search for more wolf hounds way up in Kansas Mrs Cable a former Kansan receives the lola Kan newspaper so sent us a clipping of the Colonel's trip and nil interview in that M T Cole Texas cattleman breezed into the lola police station this morning for sistance in running down six wolf hounds and their owner Earl cr of Baldwin Cole wants to buy the hounds because with cattle prices being what they are he plans to devote more time to hunting It Beems that Kirker ran an ad- in a dog magazine fering to sell the six wolf hounds i and red fox Walker Hounds Cole made to meet him in Bolivar was des The filibuster fight seemed likely to be the only concrete business to come before the new Congress this week Senate and House had a date to meet in joint session today for the formal counting of Electoral College votes which will make Dwight D Eisenhower the next President Tomorrow they will re- President Truman's final State of the Union message but he won't deliver it in person day the Truman budget message Storage Shed Razed By Fire A storage shed belonging to J on the day after Having never been in Kansas I discovered un- the Texan pictured as a cross almost engulfed the en- roads junction with a post office suture firemen reported Two trucks were sent to fight the fire but it had gained so much headway by the time they that the shed and its contents were practically a total loss Tools toys furniture and the miscellaneous articles usually stoV ed in barns were destroyed gin of the fire had not been de- termined today A booster pump truck roared to the scene of a grass fire three miles east of the city on the Old McKinney Road Monday afternoon and general store where it would be mighty easy for two dog lovers to pick up each other's scent However after strolling along Ma's streets for an hour or so this morning Cole had caught nary a whiff of a wolf hound or a man who might have half dozen of them for sale So he turned to the police for help I reckon that this will more or less establish me as a worthy Cole who hales from opined as he drew from his wallet a receipt acknowledging Shut the blaic was under control his contribution to the Mxon campaign fund Last Nov 4.1 voted for a Republican for the Erst time in 12 national elections We grow the best cattle in the world down in mv part of ROUNDABOUT Page 2 when firemen reached the scene Apparently a passing motorist or neighbors turned in the alarm but the owner of the property had the dry grass and under complete control it was reported Otherwise most of the work was done behind the scenes ward completing the organization f the GOP Congress which met or the first time on Saturday assignments were the biggest and touchiest problem In the filibuster scrap the issue s a move Northern senators to make it er to muzzle the endless debate with which Southern senators in the past have talked to death civil rights bills and proposals to forbid racial discrimination i n employment have been victims of filibusters Even civil porters conceded they have no chance to win Taft is seeking to prevent the Vow from blossoming into a full-fledged fill luster which could paralyze the Senate for weeks and tie up the legislative program of the ing Eisenhower administration Sen Dirksen one of Taft's is reported to be drafting a civil rights around which he expects the GOP to rally measure seeking to dis- courage racial discrimination in employment without providing for criminal prosecution of offenders Its have not been made public In that connection Rep Sam Rayburn of Texas dean of all Democrats in Congress said he expects that any civil rights program which Eisenhower proposes will help unite the Some Democrats who hated President Roosevelt and Truman because of their civil will now start hating dent Eisenhower for the same Raybum said in an in- on the eve of his birthday today Rayburn speaker of the House in the last session said he thinks his party will be more united is a minority than it was during the nearly 20 years it the In the Senate maneuvering Sen See CONGRESS Page 2 Lists j Grunewald Aid To Truman Senator Asks Group To Probe Political Gift To WASHINGTON W Senator McCarthy made public day a photographic copy of a 1948 etter signed by President Truman thanking Henry W the man Grunewald for generous support in that election year McCarthy handed reporters the copy shortly after he asked the Senate rules committee to look into a political contribution to Sen which thy said was solicited from Grundewald Grunewald mysterious ton figure was here yesterday for contempt of Con- gress for refusing to tions of a House committee tax scandals The Truman letter as released by McCarthy November 24 1948 Dear Mr 1 have heard the way in which you expressed con- in my leadership and want you to know of my heartfelt I am grateful than I can say The Democrat Party myst go forward with progress and port which you gave so heartedly gives me strength and courage and renewed faith in tiie principles for which our party must always stand Very yours Harry S Truman McCarthy refused to tell KOREA Wave Of Army Desertions Called National Disgrace LOUISVILLE Ky ville reported today that desertions from the armed forces of the United States have reached alarming proportions The situation has Become so had the newspaper said in a righted article that a formed Army colonel called it a national disgrace It said the wave of runaways is motivated in a large number of cases by the desires pi young men to get dishonorably discharged and avoid service in Korea In Kentucky alone the article said from to deserters are tracked down each year and other hundreds still roam the try It quoted military men as ing the situation is proportionately as bad in the other 47 states curate figures on the other slates are unavailable however because the Defense has re- fused to make them public The Times said it had learned however that since the fall of 1950 the Ft Knox stockade seldom has contained fewer than WO to GOO all of them deserters and AWOLs Richard Harwood Times staff writer who wrote the article As of two months ago at least 700 soldiers and sailors were ing out in Kentucky cities on farms and in rural communities Some of them deserted years ago Some of them live almost like an- imals in caves and abandoned coal mines Many of them are and hidden fay relatives and friends Nationally Hanvood w r o te Ask Support Of Currency WASHINGTON predicted today that hell in if any posal for S support of British currency comes out of the conference Dirksen told a reporter he docs not believe President-elect made any commitments in his conversations with Prime ister Winston Churchill yesterday the Illinois said 1 snail be interested civilian persons imply confirms to whether Mr Churchill sub- makes any proposal for a gift of American gold to support enough are known to justify the estimate of some military men that on any given day of the year enough able-bodied men to make up two complete combat divisions are classified as deserter j or AWOL That indicates a permanent force of runaways numbering to men The Times said its information gathered form both military and that the desertion problem is serious one Harwood said he discussed the professional soldier with long ice in Europe and World War II The public ought to kaow these things because it's a national dis- he quoted the colonel These young men don't even seem to know the meaning of patriotism See DESERTIONS Page 2 porters how he of obtained copies correspondence There is irregular getting the letters I can assure Abney Ivey Dies At Meeting In Church Abney B Ivey 72 long active j in Denton s civic life heart attack arid died Monday night at a meeting of the First dist Church board of stewards in the church Funeral services for Mr Ivey a retired insurance executive will be held at 10 Wednesday at the First Methodist Church with Schinitz Funeral Home in charge of and chairman and member of the First Methodist Church board of stewards with the ward more than a quarter tury He was chairman of the church's committee Mr Ivey was organizer of first Denton Country Club in 1920 and during the depression wit head of the United Charities He Ar- ABNEY B IVEY BURGLARS HIT 3 KRUM FIRMS to rhi KHUM Burglars struck Monday night breaking into at least three business houses and at- CRASH FATAL TO 27 Box Of Dangerous Radium Found In Plane Wreckage 4 Hurt In Car Near Roanoke Special Sheppard Air Force men and two civilians all from Wichita Falls were in- jured Monday afternoon when the car in which they were riding went out of control on a curve west of here acd overturned eral timss The accident occurred oo Slate Highway m a quarter of a mile west of the U S Highway 177 overpass Sheriff W 0 Hodges re- ported The car was traveling east when it failed to negotiate the curve Deputy Sheriff E C man said Believed to be most seriously in- jured was Airman Bob Kennedy who suffered a fractured right leg and head injuries He and Airman J A Jacobson who was shaken up were transferred to an air base hospital after receiving tempting to enter others The prowlers succeeded in breaking into the R L Cole Grain Co office the Jackson tion and the Morris Motor Co An amount j small change was taken but the lasses were not believed to be high However investigation was continuing today The Denton County Sheriffs department was probing the burglaries The prowlers tried to break open a safe at the Morris Motor Co but apparently failed An mined amount of change was en from both the Morris Co and the Cole firm it was reported The burglars gained entry into the buildings by prying win dows The prowlers attempted to break into several other business houses investigation disclosed this morning Chief Deputy Sheriff Bud Gentle was conducting the probe Slidell located about seven miles west of here just inside the Denton County line was the get OL similar Sunday night Unknown person entered the Slidell post office the school house and a garage The Wise County sheriffs de- investigated the Cemetery Mr Ivey Sold his interest in the Insurance Co to vin Ramey in March 1951 He entered the insurance ness here in 1923 with the Ramey Insurance Co then a of the la 1 Lon A Speer and M L Earlier Mr Ivey was a deputy in the county clerk's office for eight years and served two terms ss county clerk from 1919 to 1923 A Denton resident 68 years he was one of the organizers of the Kiwanis Club and its first dent He president and tor of the Chamber of Commerce fj president and member of the on Park Board for more than 25 Northern Ireland IK Salvage squads with counters hunted 12 hours today through the wreckage of a British airliner before finding a box of highly dangerous radioactive live radon seeds in the cargo Twenty seven persons including teachers from Kansas were killed when the British Airways plane lasl night Seven others injured The radium was being flown lo Belfast Radiotherapy Clinic cuers were warned if the box has hurst don't touch the They are highly dangerous scattered for 150 yards Only one of the 35 persons aboard the Jack 26 of Belfast escaped unhurt He was flung from the tail section into a muddy ditch the plane broke up The two American ers were Miss Griffing 30 of Smith Tenter and Miss Kas The plane was on from to Corner field U mites from here U a normal 1 of Ionia The other 25 killed were into flames 200 yards from the port lounge where the waiting friends and relatives were ered A horrified crowd of approach at p.m until it was and friends to the i about 50 feel off the ground Then saw the tw j it ripped into the beacon mast British European Airway KKA The impact hurled the plane hit beacon tower Hie control he airport's radio all Hie airport's There was no in nn minors The Airliner lion how thf 1 w as bounded runway and beacon nml A screaming panic-stricken girl ran from the wreckage with her clothing Rescuers chased her 300 yards were able to catch her and taVe her to hospital Working by lights and arc lamps ire extinguished the flames and removed the dead and injured When we reached wreckage bodies were strewn around the craft and some people were ing in and out of the said 11 M a Belfast resident who to cy treatment Flow Memorial Hospital here Tne driver of the car listed Danny Edward Austin chard Drive Wichita Falls and the civilian passenger R Green were both reported ing well at Flow Hospital today Green was reported to have a dis- located shoulder while Austin was not believed to be seriously hurt The four injured were ed to Denlon in two al Home See CRASH Page 2 Man Charged In Slaying ufi Police scoured the nation today for Donald Hawkins Brown 27 wanted in the torch slaying of a young finance company collector A pickup order issued for Brown last night ho murder in death ot Edwin Joe Campbell City To Drill Another Well For Water Supply Thu city commission Monday initiated action toward drilling an- other water well to augment the city's present water supply and opened bids for a new pump to be installed on one of the older wells No official action was taken on the Star Gas Company's jaest for increase in At the suggestion of Mayor Mark Hannah the city commission the purchase of a small tract of land near the Dallas Highway was authorised A lest well will be drilled first The tract is to be chased from Mrs Lucy Kembrell for subject to approval of title by City Attorney Robert Jr As advertised bids on the nev Weather DENTON AND VICINITY Partly cloudy and mild today ing cloudiness with scattered showers and turning colder night Low temperatures by morning 32 to 40 degrees Con cold Wednesday EAST Cloudy and colder tonight and Wednesday WEST Colder with light snow in Panhandle freezing night TEMPERATURES Station A Lent Stir Monday Tuesday U noon BO 1J midnight 41 2 66 J un 43 4 p.m 70 4 Km 40 5 64 6 ajn 8 iS 8 10 54 10 the convertibility cur- rency If anything of that nature comes up hell will pop in Congress I'm lire While Churchill has made public mention of it there have reports the British Minister would have AmeA support for an inter- national stabilization fund for til free countries v Publicly Churchill has concerned himself more directly with the theme that U S tariffs are im- trade and hampering efforts to earn her own ing with trade not aid While Sen of Ohio the new Senate majority leader indicated he favors extension of the rocal Agreements Act in about its present form some Republicans held out little hope ior any considerable tariff cuts let administration to cot import duties in exchange for similar concessions from other countries my was chairman cf thr tire rationing board during World War II and was president of the ABNEY IVEY Page 2 Denton Future Called Bright Denton was rated highly at an attractive site for homeowners and industry talk here Monday night by Louis E Strey of ton president of the Texas Real Estate Association Strey was the main speaker at a banquet of the Denton County Real Estate Board at Hubbard Hall A national charter was pre- sented to the group by R P Estes of Fort Worth past president of the state Association The charter was accepted for the W R Yeary Predicting that the real estate profession of Texas is on the verge of a new era f know of few towns with greater potentialities than Many advantages are not equalled anywhere else Strey said that real estate men can perform valuable services in bringing new industries to i city working with tht Chamber of Commerce Industrial firms check ing situation first when plating a move DC said and in active real estate group in a town can make the move attractive Estes praised the rapid See DENTON Page 2 sion said he thinks the present law has been working Congress provided in it that the president must cite his reasons when he overrules any tariff com- mission finding that a proposed rate reduction threatens an ican industry Sen Edward t justice committee member told a See CHURCHILL Page I Tatt Who opposed of the trals their SWB Norther To Rout Warm Weather Showers Forecast Denton County basked in of the warmest weather of the son today as a new cold frost was reported bearing down on the Texas area norther is expected to strike here tonight along wits light scattered showers and by Wednesday ing temperatures are due to be in the mid 30s Temperatures ahead of the front today were expected to reach tba lower 80s Monday's high was a balmy degrees while low during the night was only The new cold front will cover the entire state except deepest South Texas by Wednesday night weather bureau predicts ton County is expected to fed the full fury Pf the northerly winds by Wednesday night Some snow acd sleet may company the front ai tt across the Texas plains Light snow is in the Pan- bindle tonight with low hires from 24 to de- grees Wife Showed No Remorse After Killing Witness Says TOKYO Ji Dorothy attorney trie in Smith quoted in court today as saying Too bad I didn't get him in the heart while her band lay bleeding to of a wound The witness was U Col Joseph Hardin ot Dallas He said he ered the bedroom of Col and Mrs Aubrey Smith few minutes the officer was slabbed it midnight 3 Dorothy Smith is on trial tn Army couri martini on i charge of premeditated murder Hardin testified that on the fatal night she was groping around a dressing table apparently ing for He said she well pump were opened onb panties and bra Smith on his btd with a knife wound in his side Pid von Mrs Smith nuke any Lt Col W H whose shot four Four bids were found referred to City here New finter H C Creel Jr tnd Tower I Supt W I perspiring and in pals Hardin a golfing partner el Smith's accompanied bin tn Army hospital He expressed gust with tragic ered at getting tor Smith As tn a possible motive ness Col A Goen e Champaign 111 who accompanied Hardin to the Smith home hi heard defendant OM statement To the best of my he said the statement wag tc that uo one will trer the reason Defense hai MC an- wbat Mrs de- fense will be bated it hat Indicated the data would be temporary Hardin Hardin replied It was to the effect that It's too bad 1 didn't get him in the heart Hardin testified also that Mrs Smith seemed either drank or drugged was not rational was unable to co-ordinate her physical movements and was mostly Finally he added the attractive daughter of Gen ter Krueger and the mother two children seemingly passed out Other witnesses variously fied she was asleep in a coma or unconscious The second day of the dramatic trial then recessed until tomorrow The case is being heard by a ribbon court headed by a major Cuh lr Hwm CUM laid Smith Mark MM
