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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1952
Page
1
UN talks grow tense as Communists denounce UN treatment of war prisoners and threaten daily sessions as propaganda unless Allied terms are accepted. Vice Admiral Joy voices fury at alleged Communist distortions while Nam Il lists charges of massacres and prisoner abuse.
Officials from the Veterans Service Center relocate to 21 11 North Ashbel, joining the Office of Civil Defense at South Ashbel. A 4 p.m. meeting of vice center officials will be at the new offices. Community notices list blood drive appeals and local education board plans, with details for contact and attendance.
A fragmented town page mentions Gorman and Albert Mui Stending at quiet scenes near the 2 acinto battlegrounds. It references a picture show, various local names like Nina Ruth, Alton Laird, James, and Eleanor Grigg, plus touches of humor and daily life at spots such as Honeycuts and a car trip with Bartown.
Brig. Gen. Francis T. Bidd said communist prisoners of war threatened to kill him and stage a mass break if Eighth Army troops entered the Rose Island camp. Dodd, commander of Koje Island camp, was held four days and later released unharmed as Gen. Mark W. Clark accused the prisoners of blackmail and plotted propaganda against armistice talks.
Funeral services for George Henn Schaeffer 75 of Cove are set for 3 p.m. today at Paul Us Lee funeral home with Rev MM E McPhail officiating. Burial will be in Cedarcrest Cemetery. Surviving are his widow Elizabeth and children Arnold, Arthur, Lawrence, and a daughter Vane Clark plus nine grandchildren and siblings in Illinois and Texas. Active pallbearers include Presnail Quarts Kempay Joseph Reynolds and Nelson. honorary pallbearers include Reynolds Sr Busch Griffith McCallier Clark and Williams.
At 2 30 a m Sunday two cars crashed into the Hollaman residence at 301 Graham injuring none but causing gas line damage, floor damage, and window breakage. Police cited Catherine Amoretti 25 of 2907 Market for license issues after she said a front tire blowout caused loss of control.
William H. McDougall Jr., a longtime Utah Wyoming Hawaii and Japan based journalist and United Press foreign correspondent, was ordained a Catholic priest in Salt Lake City. He describes his postwar conversion as payment for his private miracle after surviving a 1942 Java sea sinking and a Sumatra prison camp, vowing to pursue a more worthwhile life.
Baytown merchants today continued their quest for patron desires on shopping hours. They ask patrons to clip a coupon from an advertisement urging preference for night shopping. Retail Merchant Chairman Al Melinger cites proposed changes to some stores from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 12 noon to 9 p.m. as part of an ongoing effort to standardize hours. Some stores already feature night hours or operate on different schedules. Several food stores are open seven days a week.
New Orleans reported the Western Union strike ended as employees return to work. Union Superintendent John Jackson said the settlement is local to New Orleans and has no nationwide effect.
Denver dispatch reports a 13 day oil workers strike affecting fuel supplies from Finland to Honolulu. A wage pact between Standard Oil of California and 20 locals of the independent oil workers union was ratified by 98 percent of West Coast workers, but the nationwide walkout by 22 CIO AFL and independent unions continues. The pact will be reviewed by the Wage Stabilization Board in Washington Monday. United Airlines canceled 14 flights, about 10 percent of seat miles, as aviation fuel shortages increased pressure on travel.
Humble Oil and Refining Co will invest 245 million dollars this year in seeking new oil supplies. President Hines H Baker told stockholders in Houston that drilling 397 wells in the first four months yielded 355,400 barrels daily, up nearly seven percent from a year ago. He criticized federal overreach in tidelands, steel industry seizure, and rising taxes, warning they threaten business and living standards.
A Sunday night fire ripped through eight partly filled distillate tanks at Houston’s Eastern Gates refinery on the ship channel. Three firefighters were slightly hurt as crews from four refineries and oil firms assisted, with Coast Guard boats aiding water streams near the channel. The blaze, discovered about 9 p.m., damaged the refinery and its cause remains undetermined.
General Ridgway transfers Far East duties to Gen. Clark before a large Japanese crowd at Haneda Airport. He plans a 12,000 mile flight to Paris to assume NATO commander role, with Mrs. Ridgway and their son accompanying. He praises Allied unity and says the three nations share a common goal of liberty and peace.
Olin Miner notes a stark scene where a man without clothes or loom faces a bleak task. The piece highlights hardship and resilience on a rough shoreline, reflecting on survival and social neglect. A compact vision of poverty and endurance anchors the vignette.
East German Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht warned that consequences for West Berlin would follow if Adenauer and the Allies sign the peace contract. He praised Essen riots as Communist opposition and noted Russian patrols blocking Allied traffic toward West Germany, with new travel permits delaying access to the Allied sector of Berlin.
United Press reports at least a dozen Texans died violently over the weekend. drownings killed two teens in stock tanks near Rice and Whitesboro. A Fort Worth boy aged one fell 38 feet from a water tower. A Bowie couple died in a car crash. A Sherman girl 8 was struck by a truck. Others include a Freer car crash victim, a San Antonio heart attack driver, a Houston gunfight victim, and two gunshot deaths in Houston.
Cannes reports quote Orson Welles saying he dislikes acting and only acts for funds to support his true work as writer and producer. He notes his Othello role was chosen because he could not hire another star and needed the money to pursue his real ambitions.
A New York magistrate released 41 women held overnight on gambling charges as a Mother’s Day gesture. Magistrate Joseph A. Martinis had dismissed disorderly conduct charges, bidding the group a happy Mothers’ Day as they left the courtroom.
A 26-year-old Greek war veteran, Kos tantine Popilides of Macedonia, is believed to have drowned after jumping from a freighter near Hog Island. His companion Christos AstamatZides, 21, of Halikus, Greece, was rescued by an engineer aboard the Morgans Point ferry C D Massey and jailed in Houston. Both men were stowaways on the New Rochelle and wore irons. Rescue crews from Baytown, La Porte, Coast Guard, and emergency corps searched the channel and shorelines, but Popilides likely failed to reach shore.
The Supreme Court heard arguments by government and steel industry lawyers on executive power during emergencies. The dispute centers on President Truman’s April 8 seizure of steel mills to avert a strike, with judges granting extended oral arguments and weighing limits on presidential authority.
Berkeley officials pressed ahead with a decision allowing Paul Robeson to perform in the Berkeley High School community theater after a public meeting Saturday sparked debate. Wreckage of freight cars smoldered in Corsicana as firefighters battled remaining flames.
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