Morning Avalanche (Newspaper) - September 18, 1954, Lubbock, Texas Odessa 12 Waco 0 Hill 6 Amarillo 0 Altus 18 Borger 7 Pampa 32 Austin EP 13 6 El Paso 20 18 Sudan 26 Post 33 Spur 39 Floydada 6 Slaton 13 Muleshoe 6 7 Rails 0 Quanah 0 Alabama Littlefield 40 Hereford 13 FOB COMPLETE AND STORIES SEE PAGES 7 t SECTION Starts the Day on the South Plains Year 271 24 Pages Today Lubbock Saturday September 18 eu run Wirti UP and By ART GATTS Avalanche Sports Writer blazing overpower T ing speed Lubbock Highs Westerners made Coach Pat Far rls debut a success by defeating the to H before a crowd of 13000 fans at Jones Stadium Friday night Two halfbacks Don Hogue and Jimmy Berly keynoted that swiftness the junior Hogue romping up the middle for the last touchdown from 80 yards out That was the score that made Lubbock fans breathe easier a senior scored on a short thrust in the second quarter and before the half galloped down the side lines 93 yards with a kickoff Gehrls Garrison Scores Quarterback Gehrig Garrison started the Westerners off right with a keeper for the then in the second hit End Milton Daniels with a 14yard pass tor a score Lubbock needed all of those weapons however as Sequence And Sideline Photos On Game Fago 7 Section 1 Lonnie Holland put on a lar passing expected The senior of Coach Don completed eight passes lor 118 yards and the two Plain view touchdowns He would have completed more except that his receivers dropped some Plainview took the back 17 could make only four yards forcing a kick and bringing on the first display of Westerner flash Hogue caught the Williamson 24 went up the right side tor 67 yards be fore he was forced by Holland the last defender Are Stranded Three line blasts got the ball to the one and Garrison pulled an option around left end for the from there There were still almost eight minutes to play but Lubbock didnt score again until the first play of the second quart climax a drive that started when Plainview had to kick in the first period The Bulldogs were stranded that time on the 44 Williams getting off a poor yards and out on 36 Berly went around See LONG BUNS Page 7 Fraud Charged To Firm Here A Lubbock life Insurance com pany and one of Its executives have been charged by criminal indict ment filed in Judge Joseph Dooleys US District Court here with tour counts of fraud against government in connec tion with GI housing loans Named as defendants In the In are the Life Insurance Co a corporation and Glen H Huls of the organization Placed Under The defendants were placed un der surety bond each following arraignment Wednesday before U S Commissioner Mrs Olive Fluke here Receiving service tor the in surance company was F H Lind sty chairman of the board of di rectors The Indictment was returned Sept 10 by a federal grand Jury in See FRAUD CASE 10 O I j Lubbock Romp To 3414 Triumph Over Plain L m 13000 Fans See Blazing Speed Pay Off K d Three Hurt In Wreck DEATH CRASHAn 81yearold woman Mrs Sally Mosteller was killed in the above shortly after 5 pm Friday approximate ly two miles east of Smyer on the Highway at its intersection with a cross road The victim was in the car with her daughter Mrs D C Boone 41 Shallowater and Mrs Boone s daughter Sandra 15 both of whom were injured but not seriously Driver of the truck was Orland Cecil McNeely 34 Carlisle who was treated The body of Mrs Mosteller was m the car note blanket at the time the photo was made Both vehicles were completely turned around from the direction in which they were traveling The death was the 58th in traffic over the South Plains this year j FRENCH BACKING FOR US BRITISH PUN FINALLY PLEDGED Alliance For Germany Okayed m EMon nn of the member countries wouk CONVICTS CAUGHT Guard Dies In Prison Break From AP vt Anthony Eden wound Up T Sept 3Hhoursession at the For eign L states and Britain agreed I Office by Issuing a call tor a tonight on quick action to bring speedy conference to consider how Germany into the Atlantic best to associate the West Ger alliance on a basis of toll equality mans North At By The United PARSON CITY Nev Sept desperate con victs used a truck as a bat tering ram to smash their way out of Nevada state pris on early Friday killing a guard who was held as a hos tage All three fugitives were re captured before nightfall in the vicinity of the prison Two of them meekly gave themselves up when possemen caught up with them on a rocky knoll less than an hour after the break They were Don H Gulovsen 24 and Wil liam R Burman 22 The third kidnapper Gene 20 of Cambridge Minn surrendered late Fri day after heard him moving under two huge boulders and threatened to shoot Guard Shot To Death The convict promptly re plied Dont shoot Im com ing out Guard George Miller 59 of Carson City was shot to death when the throe men forced him to crash through the pris on gates m a pickup truck loaded with milk The three men were See CONVICTS SLAY Page 10 France has promised support in principle at least for this move Sec John Foster Dulles and British Foreign Sec Treaty Organization Dulles then took off for Washington NATO headquarters in Pans promptly minis WOULD SAVE FOREIGN POLICY HST Asks Voters To Give Ike Demo Congress To Help Him By DOUGLAS B CORNELL Sept 17 Ml i Harry S Truman asked the American people today to give President Eisenhower a Demo cratic Congress in the hope that we can save him from the mis deeds of his own party In a letter to Na Soviets Developing Atomic Defense Scientist Says STUDENT BODY OF 6214 SEEN Registration Record Looms As Tech Enrolls 4743 By T W BRIDGES Avalanche Staff Writer A 15 PER CENT increase in en at Texas Tech fall li indicated in the registra tion count end of two day regular registration period predic that the total reinitiation for tto will iet new exceeding the high of 8H5 set In September 1948 On Thursday and Friday 4743 completed matriculation dozens more quitting time only hall through with registration procedures In 1953 only 4132 completed ma in the corresponding period The final tally tor the semester was 5418 So if the same ratio between regular and KFY Avil i nche Journal Station late registration prevails the to tal registration this year should reach a new mark of 6214 Attitudes among the faculty charged with registration duties varied There delight with the growth of the student body mingled with despair about the sltt of classes and shortages of sections Every division except Agriculture showed at least a 10 per cent upsurge and Agriculture dipped only slightly just under 6 per cent For the two days the Arts and Sciences registration was up more than 21 percent over the corres ponding period Business Administration nearly 11 per cent Engineering up more than 22 per cent Home Econo mics up nearly 28 per cent and the Graduate School Up more than 10 per cent Of the 4743 who have completed registration 3290 are undergrad men 1304 are undergrad women 115 graduate men and 34 graduate women The en of both men and women Is on the men and TECH ENROLLMENT Pf 10 WASHINGTON Sept 17 Dr Ralph Lapp an atomic scientist speculated today that Russia may have ed an atomic warhead design ed for use in airplane can non antiaircraft guns or field artillery pieces Lapp though not now con with the government atomic program worked on the Manhattan Project which produced the first American Abomb Another Interpretation He told a reporter that still another possible interpreta tion of Russias announcement Thursday night that it had conducted a new atomic test Is this Soviet weapon experts may have been studying the effects on buildings and other struc tures to see what structures See ATOMIC DEFENSE Page 10 tional Chairman Stephen A Mitch ell the former President said the worst thing the Republicans have done is to weaken the position ol the free nations in the fight against Communist imperialism Eisen hower he said needs a Democrat ic Congress in order to go down in history as a successful presi dent who helped to save the free world Strategy Session Slated Mitchell released the letter at a news conference as Democratic leaders headed into a strategy ses sion to chart their campaign to toss the GOP out of control of Con gress in the November election The chairman told newsmen the tide is running for party candi dates and gaining in momentum Generally speaking he said I think we have in the making the greatest Democratic sweep since 1936 Salvaged Maine Vermont That was the presidential elec tion yearin which the GOP sal ters of the member countries would meet about Oct 15 to up the problem The exact date and place of the talks have not yet seen agreed on but Paris has been fre mentioned as the most likely spot the Brit became possible with Edens disclosure of conditional promise to go along on entry into the Western alliance Blame French Assembly A brief communique issued by Dulles and Eden laid the blame for the present situation squarely on the French national assembly which 18 days ago rejected the EDC Friday was the first time that Britain publicly went along with the American idea of full equal ity for Germany and a British spokesman said the talks were very satisfactory of the meetings it was believed the conference would be the showdown for the future of European defense Nego are expected to start im mediately to lay more detailed groundwork before it opens the conference reaches some agreement the plan can go to the full NATO meeting and the West can proceed with its efforts to add 500000 German troops tothe de fense of West Europe and Germany will receive its sov French Premier Pierre Mendes France assured Eden Thursday he See DULLES EDEN Page 10 Slabbed Negro Injured In Wreck On Way To Hospital A Lubbock Johnson 2310 16th St rear was in seri ous condition late Friday night after being stabbed and then in jured in a wreck as he was being rushed to a hospital Attendants at Methodist Hos pital were giving the victim blood plasma He had mul tiple wounds over Ills face arms and chest Flying glass may have caused a few lacerations A 30yearold Negro Charlie Lee Jones 2308 Broadway rear told police ne found Johnson out side a Negro section cafe and was to a hospital when his with another ve hicle at 19th St and Aye Q A Rlx ambulance took Johnson on from there Driver of the other car Roy Herd 27j 1120 46th was un injured Lubbock Bus Driver Unhurt In Fatal Collision Near Cisco CISCO Sept 17 tion yearin which the GOP Wharton 53 of Cisco vaged only Vermont was injured in a from a Roosevelt landslide accident about p m Friday Truman wrote of on u g Highway 380 about 15 He will never get the authority northwest of Cisco and an adequate other persons passengers gram of through a Republican Congress He needs a Democratic Congress if ne is to go down in history as a suc president who helped to save the free world Hall Snaps Back Leonard W GOP na tional chairman snapped back In a statement at Washington It is an old axiom that when you get unsolicited advice you con alder the source When the American people DEMOCRATS MEET Page IB GOOD MORNING In Todays Paper Arw Underway Page 1 Section J Editorial Page Page t Section f Radio TV Programi Page S Section South oil News Area State National Mornings Page U Section A Will ability to peanut in the Texas New Mexico Oklahoma Bus line bus were driving a truck slightly Injured Wharton was owned by the Lone Star Gas Co and was attempting to make a left hand turn into the driveway of the Lone Star Pueblo plant when the accident occurred Driver of the Kenneth Leon Strickland 39 of Lubbock Shallowater Woman 81 Crash Victim By BOB FENLEY Avalanche Staff Writer A RENDING crash approximately two miles east of Smyer on the land Highway took the life of an 81yearold Shallowater woman Mrs Sally Mosteller and injured three other persons shortly after 5 p m Friday In St Marys Hospital are Mrs D C Boone 41 Shallowater the death victims daughter and Mrs Boones laughter Sandra 15 At tendants said both had facial lac and bruises but neither was in serious condition Girl Driving Auto Treated and released at West Texas Hospital was Orland Cecil McNeely 34 Carlisle driver of the truck Investigating Highway Patrol men said the car containing the three women and driven by San dra was traveling east at the time The truck which belongs to Lubbock Wholesale Drug and Sun dry Co 3708 Ave Q apparently entered the intersection from a side road traveling south they said The car smashed Into the right side of the trucks body ripping the metal box from the frame and strewing and for about SO feet toward louth After It was the truck overturned coming to reit en south of the Intersection Me Neelys wife said hti drug route Dies In Arms Of Officer Several Latin Americans who said the truck driver was of the win dow of the vehicle when they ar rived The car containing the women was heavily damaged Shattered window ulass and blood on the hood indicated someone had been tossed through the windshield Mrs Mosteller died soon after the crash in the arms of a Highway patrolman at the scene Her body remained in the car Presumably there were no wit nesses to the actual crash Relatives said Mrs Mosteller was going to spend the weekend with the Boone family She had been staying with another daugh ter Mrs C D Fielding Level land Route 1 She had lived In the area 13 years with her two daugh ters A Sanders and two Rbc lances took the victims to the hos Justice of the Peace J A Got cher Ropesville was called to act as coroner Mrs death was the See ONE DEAD Page 10 TOUGHER THAN WITH Wetherby after tussling with this writhing alligator at the tucky State Fair in Louisville quipped Its tougher than with politics Last year the governor rode ostrich tht fair AP Wirephoto Step Up Attacks On Amoy Prepare To Fight Red Forces Told Two US Soldiers Captured By Czechs HEIDELBERG Germany Sept 17 BA Communist Czech border patrol arrested two American sol diers today near Bavaria US Army on just what happened The Armys European terg in Heidelberg said the two presumably were abducted while on a routine patrol alone the German border Trie headquarters announcement said a third member of the patrol was some distance did not see the Czechs actually arrest his companions Names of abducted men were withheld pending further in From CT AM AP Win Formosa Saturday Sept Communist army forces facing the Nationalist garrison on orders to make ready for battle The from the Chi nese Communist Party Committee of the East China Military Area Meanwhile Nationalist bombers subjected the Reds Amoy cations to the 15th straight day of attacks and Chiang De fense Ministry announced thet ac tion against the Reds would be continued and expanded Preparations Stepped Up The Peiping broadcast a di rective was issued to Red troops in east China to step up prepara tions for the liberation of For mosa in face of increased Nation alist air and sea raids designed to smash Red junk fleets assembling along the Communist mainland The Red broadcast monitored In Tokyo said the directive was is sued recently by the Communist party committee of the military area The area faces For mosa and the is lands just off the Red mainland Prepared For Combat Peiping radio said the directive ordered army personnel to be prepared for combat to contin ue to strengthen sea air and land defenses and to rush training to ensure victory over the Nation alist forces Nationalist air force ers said Nationalist planes sank or destroyed 100 Chinese Commu nist junks off the Southeast China Coast It was tht HO to recent weeks However military Gen Chang YiTing said Commu nist patrol planes were active See BOMBERS HIT Page 10 FLYING SAUCER Strange Object Excites Rome Suspect Denies He Took Part In Albuquerque Bank Robbery FREDERICKTOWN Mo Sept 17 man who first told Mis souri State Patrolmen he had ta ken part in a bank holdup at Albuquerque N M has now denied the story the patrol said R C who made the arrest this afternoon when the man acted in a suspicious manner quoted him as saying he told the bank robbery tale in an ef fort to avoid returning to South Dakota KENTUCKIAN LEFT WITH SHORTAGE Say NoTo From Mt AM EP Ky Sept 1 VV quiet bank cashier admitted Friday that he cashed bad checks half a million dollars because I couldnt say no The tiny bank of was closed Thursday after an emergency meet ing of its board of directors and cashier Bar rett 51 was the FBI The h e a balding cashier was charged with a bank He insisted VI any of the cashed bank customer because they had and I couldnt lay They got all the money Calls of sympathy poured Into Barretts home today but there were no immediate of fers of assistance from the depositors who benefited from his generosity The a churchgoing leader in western Kentucky community 750 persons was freedun der Wilburn Simpson president of the bank said the check writers were a couple of those more deeply assets that gave hope for recovery of much ofthe shortage I understand the law to that anyone who knowingly Is sues checks against insuffi cient funds is a party to the crime Simpson said I feel we can make substantial re Simpson himself described Barrett asa man regarded by everybody as absolutely tops in the last man in the expect something like this to banks created excitement because the depositors knew 8eeOBLIQING BANKER ROME Sept 18 Saturday Italian Air announced early today tracking of a ed object seen in the by thousands of Romans The Air Force laid an Ital Ian radar station tracked flit object for 39 night The Air Force laid the ob ject flew slowly before dis appearing In a burst of speed The object reportedly shaped like a cigar with bif antenna amidships A trail of smoke poured from the rear Thousands o f phoned police to report see ing the object Many said exhaust trail was luminous across the sky The Air Force reported that station Pratica Dimare 40 miles southwest of Rome picked up the object at p m local time The station held the object on its screen until p m The object flew at 3610 feet along a 15 miles stretch of the coast west of Rome s IT ALWAYS HAS i BRADY Sept 17 Brady Standard in Ma Culloch County has a new Fear not it will rain U has Mtp Pg 4 See Lubbock and vicinity ed fair with not much change tat temperature am am Lnt am am am irn Ltn pm AIlO US ID M f D m J Maximum 91 Minimum SI jt Maximum a year aio today M m Imum a yew ago today c Sun today am mm MB today pm Maximum humidity minimum 80UTOWWT him and low tor th 14 boun at Iff city V Abilene 33 66 El Amarillo ss 59 Hourton 91 91 Okla City Dallas H W FUU pm pm pm pm pm Dm pm pm pm pm pm am i
