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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1952
Page
1
A garbled release lists local city updates including low temperatures around 32 degrees, a community house event from 2 am to 6:10 pm, and various mentions of a garden show, hearings on rates, and schedules. Names and places are scattered, with several phrases cut or misordered, making specifics uncertain.
A三board of inquiry examined the sinking of the minesweeper Hobson as radar failed aboard the Wasp during a simulated night attack. Capt Burnham C McCaffee reported the Hobson was 3,1000 yards away when the incident occurred. Officers noted difficulties in visual observations due to ships operating under red lights and limited visibility.
Solomon like hearing as Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman defends presidential authority to seize the steel industry. Justices persistently press for the exact law backing seizure while questioning the government’s position. Decision could force reversion to private control or prompt wage and price actions if upheld.
A Highlands woman reacts to a ticket for overtime parking claiming she was in a grocery store getting change at Piggly Wiggly on Texas Avenue. She explains the store later closed for more than a month and says long checkout lines caused the delay.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans invite the Robert E. Lee band to Jackson Mississippi for the June reunion. Seventy band members will travel in two buses to provide a short concert and flag presentation at opening events and to perform at the grand march closing in the Robert E. Lee hotel ballroom. Deputy Sheriff and Mrs. Brown and others accompany the group with chaperones and counselors.
Congressman Lindley Beckworth of Gladewater, a candidate for the GS Senate in the July 28 election, planned engagements at Tomball, Pasadena and Baytown today, with no further ward received about where he will speak. Weather forecast: clear, warmer tonight, lows near 62. Moderate southerly winds.
A San Diego Texas grand jury met for a second day investigating voting conditions in Duval County. District Judge Sam Reams summoned the panel, which heard no witnesses and issued no subpoenas. Reporters noted tense exchanges outside the jury room as jurors argued over both sides and the right to know.
CIO President Murray denounces steel industry at the union’s biannual convention in Philadelphia. He vows to press for the 26-cent wage and fringe package and accuses firms of decency violations and spending taxpayers’ money on ads. He warns they will not get away with it.
Miss Tiny Epperson fifteen remains in Houston at Hermann Hospital after surgery for back injuries from a Tri City Beach Road crash. Despite vertebral repair the teen is paralyzed in her legs and needs ongoing treatment. Neighbors and groups including Memorial Baptist Loyalty class have contributed funds to a relief drive. efforts continue across Baytown and Mont Belvieu to cover four to five months of care.
Candidates for office in the July Democratic primary must pay filing fees by June 21 but face a June 16 estimate of the amount. Herris County Democratic Executive Committee chair Bob Tucker announced the panel will set the fee and ballot order at a June 16 meeting, with candidates given five days to pay assessments.
Baytown National Guard unit seeks support from local employers to grant 15 days of leave starting June 1 for field training. Captain Axel H. Schoyen urges liberal leave to sustain defense and save taxpayer money through full training dividends. Men may enlist under 18 with deferral if they participate in drills. contact Sgt. James I Montgomery for signups.
George Scott, construction superintendent for Harris County Flood Control district, announced today that he has withdrawn from the constable's race after filing for a ballot spot before the May 3 deadline. He said he will campaign instead for his friend and employer, County Commissioner A. A. May.
Washington officials report the Wage Stabilization Board favors settling oil strike disputes through collective bargaining. The 75 oil companies and 22 unions meet in a bid to avoid Taft-Hartley action as President Truman weighs a 0-day no-strike provision if talks collapse. Oil supply disruptions spread from New Jersey gas signs to halved flights between Britain and Germany and halted military couriers.
United Press reports the American oil strike hits Southeast Asia with Malaya ordering a 35 percent cut in all scheduled airline flights for four weeks. New Delhi sources say India will reduce aviation fuel use by 20 percent. British European Airways cancels 34 flights to continental Europe with further cuts anticipated.
Allied fighter pilots in the Fifth Air Force reported five MiG-15 jets shot down with two probably destroyed, five damaged and one Type-35 jet damaged in air battles from the Yalu to Pyongyang. Earlier counts of nine MiGs in four encounters were revised after film evaluations. The engagements occurred far south of the usual Yalu frontier near Manchuria.
Mrs W N Peddycord a fiftyish grandmother and full time seamstress at a department store pursues Lee College study. She has earned straight A s since enrolling in a typing class last fall and plans bookkeeping and advanced typing next term while caring for three lively grandchildren and managing the home.
Mayor Ward will try again Friday to gather councilmen and Engineer Berlin of J J Rady Co to discuss a 475000 emergency improvement program including 306009 for sanitary sewer and 172000 for water works. A quorum failed tonight. Monday night meeting canceled due to Berlin being out of town. The plan aims to decide which projects city employees will handle and which to contract out, with a time schedule to be set. The city faces a 37184 shortfall in the 487000 projected cost by end of fiscal year, per City Manager Middleton’s October 1 report.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway neared his homeland on the second leg of a 12,010 mile flight to Paris to take over as supreme Allied commander in Europe. His Constellation left Honolulu for California, then Tokyo, with his wife and three year old son aboard. He will report to President Truman and the Joint Chiefs of Staff May 19 and is due in Paris May 24. He spoke at Makalapa in Honolulu about the Rose Prison riots as part of a Communist plan to embarrass and threaten the United Nations.
Seoul reports that the U S Eighth Army fired Brig Gen Charles F Colson as commander of Koje Island and indicated it would repudiate all or part of the concessions he made to free Brig Gen Francis T Dodd from hostage. Colson was reassigned as chief of staff of the U S First Corps in Korea and Brig Gen Haydon K Boomer named as his successor. Army officials said the move followed Colson’s terms, which were described by Gen Mark Clark as blackmail. Clark asked for a full report on Dodd’s capture. Washington issued a clarifying defense department statement noting no forcible screening or other incidents beyond Colson’s assurances. Communist prisoners appeared to control Compound 76, with Dodd urging a cautious approach. Details of Colson’s promises to allow prisoner communciation and arming anti-Communists remained disputed.
Ex Texas A and M professor Hay den I Boatner named commander of a Korean war camp on Koje Island described by friends as a scholar who can mix it up. He previously led the corps of cadets and taught military science at A and M College and is noted for lectures on China.
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