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DENTON, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON,
DECEMBER 27, 1949
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VOL. XLV11
NO. 117
CRACKDOWN ON EFADERS PROPOSED
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Work-Or Else,
Strikers Told
Attack Hinted
Incited Press
Gravity Mystery
Belived Solved
Walkout Strands
London Visitors
Sanders Funeral
Rites Set Today
Queen Juliana
Gives Up Vast
Dutch Empire
Independence Is Declared
For 77,000,000 Citiiens
Of Indonesian Areas
Denton 1* On the March
America’s Ideal
“Home-Town City”
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made to see if the excises can be
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DENTON AND VICINITY: Partly
cloudj' and cooler tonight; Wed-
nesday partly cloudy and not
much change In temperature.
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Denton's power problem will be
reviewed at 7:30 tonight when
members of the city commission,
the citizen's power committee and
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TIE IS CAST—A fractured verte-
bra and four months in a heavy-
cast haven’t dulled the sense of
humor of Army Recruit William
Barnes. 17. The shirt and bow
tie on Barnes' cast are done in
of business was larger than past j
Christmases, but there was certain-
ly less grumbling noted among pa-
trons.
Lines at the windows got pretty
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years of guerrilla fighting in the [experts now are studying the prob-
Manv bi .Hess. Service adver-
tisers tell us that their small ads
in the Record-Chronicle classi-
fied section brings in plenty of
calls FGr onlv a few cents you
can reach thousands of dally
readers.
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ice you have to offer or what
you have to sell, a classified ad
will do the job for you Phone
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ing with an experienced classi-
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Hyndman, Pa . Dec. 27—iF>—
The fire which leveled this
mountain community's business
section has forged a new spirit
of civic pride in Hyndman.
That became apparent today
as merchants, town officials
and businessmen started to lay
plana for a new and better town.
The Christmas Eve fire
burned out three blocks of the
center of town.
"Thanks."
That was
N. T. Library 1 Jan 50
Box 5188 N. T. Station ‘
DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
NEW YORK. Dec. 37—<F>—Dr. I
Albert Einstein, whose theory of r
relativity helped open up the whole I
vast field of atomic research, has
put forward an even more sensa-
tional theory.
He calls it
ry of gravitation.'*
It is a mathematical descrip-
tion of the mystery of gravity—
the common force that keeps our
feet on the floor and rules the
movements of the stars.
If ft can be proved, it will be-
come a "universal law" and, in
stand as the highest
achievement of all time.
It would explain every physical
motion in the universe, from the
toward Denton when his old model
car apparently went out of con-
trol. It veered Into the path of
a car driven by Cress Barrlenter,
Yugoslavia.
Tito has a
The evange it was conducting
a revival In an Oaark Mountain
community and at the climax of
the sermon, he shouted: "All that
want to go to heaven, stand up."
Everybody stood except one boy.
The preacher said, "Well, all that
want to go to hell stand up.”
Still the boy remained seated.
By this time, the revivalist was
indignant and he exclaimed. "My
boy, you didn’t stand up on either
proposition."
"Naw, »U. the youth drawled.
I "Arkansas is good enough tor dm."
LLLLLLLL
1949
The Neale Bus Line has received
ten new buses that will be put on .
their routes over Denton Some of
the old buses will be disposed of,
t is understood, to make room lor
the more modern buses
WARIIHf PRKf
CONT ROC (NDS
199
Verily I say unto thee, except
one be born anew, he cannot see
the kingdom of God —John 3 3
This new birth conies only from
eager seeking and complete faith
and obedience It involves s
pudiation of sensuality and
Ishnesx
companies, as well g,a installment
credit—say the total Is not dan-
gerous, because of the similar
growth since 1928 in national in-
come personal savings and wages
and salaries The population has
grown, too. and the Census Bu-
reau now estimates it at more
than 150 million. Everything is
bigger and better—including your
debts
Fun Over, It's
1 Baek To H ork For
President Truman
, vnings on uie cun uus year uiiur |
i ever before Even before the Clvrlst-
i l-mas buying rush, installment cred-
it was at record peaks. And the
large sales which stores report for
home appliances, television sets,
refrigerators, washers, radios, this
, month forecast another sharp rise
( in the total of buying on time, when
the final pre-Christmas sales flg-
, tires are gathered and analyzed
, Two things contributed to the pre
Christmas rush of Installment
I buying: First, the generally hlgh-
. er degree of confidence in the
business future; and. second, the
$2 8 billion that veterans expect
, i to be getting in the next couple
of months from insurance refunds.
Americans owe fyu-e than $17
billion on goods they are tiding
on credit. More than $10 billion
of that is for goods they are buy-
ing on time, with cars accounting
$3 billion of It.
The present consumer credit ol |
$17 billion compares with $7 1-2
The following store about' after
Christmas was written tn Jack
Tarver
YEAR’S UOST OF LIVING DOWN SLIGHTLY—The
cost nf living, ax shown by the Bureau of I^algir Statis-
tics’ consumer price index, was stabiliied in 1949 on a
high level of the previous year. The decline reflected
an easing of food prices, especially meat, and an im-
provement in the quality of clothing and some other
goods. As the tear ended, the index stood at its lowest
1949 point. (AP Wirephoto Chart).
The As.sot 'ated Press repot ted
lowering temperatures below freez-
ing in a dozen Panhandle and West
Texas areas.
The new cold wave entered the
state about midnight last night and
by mldmorning had thrust south-
ward to Waco. Fog blanketed many
i North and East Texas areas.
A low reading of 34 was record
ed at the Denton Agriculture Ex-
periment Station
Sub freezing temperatures in-
cluded 17 degoees at Salt Flats in
far West Texas: Lubbock. 18 de- ,
grees. Dalhart. 21; Marfa, 27: Mid-
land. 28; Wink, 24. Clarendon |
22; Childress. 28; Ozona. 26; Pre-
sidio 28. Big Spring. 27; and Ama-
rillo. 21.
Much of West Texas and the Pan
handle reported bright. clear
weather
Cooler weather is forecast for
both west and East Texas tomor- '
POSSE HUNTS BIG THCKET AREA
AMSTERDAM, The Neth-
erlands, Dec. 27 — (AP) —j
Jueen Juliana gave up most
of Holland’s rich colonial eni- ,
pire today by proclaiming in-
dependence for 77,000,000 In-
donesians.
The simple 30-minute ceremony
THE SONG OF THE MORNING
AFTER
'Tis the dav after Christmas
and all the lernt the rugs are
slitter with cigarettes, burnt .
There arc crumbs on the mantle,
toys on the floor A wilted brown
wreath limp on the door
And there |n the corner
sight to see, the
mains of a
is shedding
cept occasional rain near the
coast. Cooler tonight Wednesday
partly cloudy. Not much changu
In temperatures. Modeate. mostly
north, winds on the coast.
WEST TEXAS: Fair thia afternoon,
tonight and Wednesday. Cooler 1L.,
Fanhandle and South FMna this
afternoon. -S
OKLAHOMA Fair waat, partly
ekmdy east today. tonight and
Wednesday Little change tn >
temperatures exsent somewhat
warmer in east today. Highs to- |
day 45-50 west. 40-45 east. Lows
tonight in Ms except 15-30 M
Panhandle.
Tr.MPkRATl'KKlI:
(Experiment Station 7 a.
day to 7 a. m. Monday.)
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NEW YORK. Dec
is the day to clear the Christmas
presents out of the living room
and start (worrying about the bills.
Both presents and bills are ap-
parently at a record high this
year.
Merchants report they sold more
presents than ever before. Even
with the lower prices most custom-
ers favored, the total dollars sales
appear, tn preliminary reports, to
be higher than last year
But the Federal Reserve Board
report- that more people put more
BELGRADE.
27—(F—Marshal
five-year trade pact with Britain
and a tidy budget surplus to bol- I of Mechanics. He was married to
•ter Yugoslavia against economic-
pressure by the Russian-led Com-
Inform. Yugoslav officials said the
trade deal would involve sales to-
taling $560,000,000 between the two
countries.
! populace that the
27. of Fort Worth. The two cars
c* Hided head-on. j
A car driven by Rogle J. Mar- |
A, then came upon [
jobs or be replaced | miss the two cars, his own auto NEW EINSTEIN THEORY
Declaring that a public transpor- ; overturned. In the car with him
tation business must operate as a
public service, he said they were half year-old Helen Loulae Pyle.
| being advised to return to their j
j jobs on their regular shifts today
or report for duty not later than
8 p m . otherwise their jobs will
be filled with permanent replace-
ments.
TTie workers.
Funeral services were to be
at 2 p m today in the Lake Dal-
las Church of Christ for Thomas
Carlisle Sanders. '5, who died at
V"1 P m. Monuay at his home in
Lake Dall. s.
Rites will be conducted by Rev.
W L. Gentry and interment will
be in the Old Hall Cemetery. Ar-
rangements ' ill be in charge of
Jack Schmitz and Sons Funeral
Home
A veteran of the Air Corps in
World War I, Sanders was a stock
farmer ir.itil his health failed in
October A native of Mississippi,
Sanders attended school at Lake
Dallas and the Kansas City School
•r Electric Co-operative bold a
special meeting in the city ball.
R W. Miller, manager of the
Brazoa Rlvor Co-op, will explain in
detail the recent offer of hie or-
ganization to sell electric power
to the City of Denton.
A full investigation of the poeal-
billUes of meeting Denton s grow-
ing demand for electricity through
the purchase of power Is planned
before action is taken on the en-
largement of the municipal pow-
er plant.
The city commission now has
in band bids Mrom three engine
manufacturers for the tasMtotfoa
« a new generating
of the new unit, installation, and
enlargement of the building would
cost approximately 8350,000.
The offer of the Brasos River co-
op to aell the city power at rates
lower than those previously offer-
*d came after the city had adver-
tised bids for the new generaUng
unit.
Jan 4. the day
Congress convenes.
DU* L$l“ vUVUt IMF H1/13 V ”
500 with other violent death.a Sixty-
five persons were killed In fires and
92 others lost their lives in acci-
dents of miscellaneous causes. Tliese
included shootings, falls, electro-
cution. plane crashes, exposure
and asphyxiation.
Tragedy came to many homes
in place of Santa Claus. A moth- I
er and her six children perished
hi a firs which swept their small (
home in San Antonio, Tex. Another
Texas family of five was wiped
out in an autoinoblle-gasgUne truc^
accident.
Texas led the nation with 70 vio-
lent deaths.
Highway accidents took the heav-
iest toll. The Safety Council's rec-
, ords show that the toll over the
three-day holiday was above the-
average. The council said that in
resident of ; Uie m0I1ths of 194g auto BC-
1 ctdents killed an average of 83
persons every 24 hours. The aver-
age covers deaths occurring long
after the accidents in which the
I victims were injured. There were
396 accidental deaths over the 1948
two-day Christmas holiday, includ-
ing 277 traffic fatalities.
Black crepe replaced the'
green holly in the homes of
more than 500 personn killed
in violent accidents across the
nation over the extended
Christmas holiday.
Nearly 400 of the deaths result- 1
ed from traffic accidents. The traf-
| flc toll—387—was under the esti- 1
mated 435 made by the National 1
Safety Council for the period from
6 p.m. last Friday to midnight
Monday.
But ti>e total soared far above
a I the month when all receipts are
two' compiled. Including the two sub-
1 stations'.
Heavy fog that has smothered wreckage and was suffering from
this area of Texas for several days [ shock and exposure when found.
1 was blamed today for the crash
ol a private plane that killed two
West Texas chiropractors and
severely injured two other per-
sons in northwest Denton County.
The crash occurred Sunday
night but it was yesterday before
it became known to anyone ex-
cept the surviving occupants of
the plane:
a sad
drooping re-
tired Christinas tree
its linsel and orna-
ments shattered in careless aban-
don as if nothing mattered
The carols are
Night" has been
almost 100 guards into the search.
They took with them dogs from
Eastham. Wynne. Harlem
Central Prison farms.
Three men believed to be con-
victs were seen near Groveton late
yesterday afternoon. Sheriff Har-
ris Johnson of Trtnlty County said
the men attempted to hold up the
unidentified driver of a car in that
area
One of the men, Sheriff Johnson
said, was reported to have been ar-
See POSSE, Page 2
holes. These permit some taxpay- : ca."
ers to work the tax laws in a I
manner to trim down their tax ob-
ligations.
If that amount were collected it
(ould just about cover what the
government needs to balance the
budget.
Meanwhile, Republicans on Cap-
| Hol Hill — expecting considerable j upping
support from Democrats—lined up Mir*,
for the battle against any proposal slash of around $800.000,000 to $760,- >
' President Truman may make for 100,000 a year m tre war-;mp< sed j
! tax increases. excise rates on such things as
Rep Joseph W. Martin, Jr., the furs, jewelry, luggage, communi- 1
cations and transportation. Such j
legislation now is backed by a
substantial number of
cans and Democrats. Mr
that the Admlq$stration can man has said studies are being
insids of an atom to the enormouo
Albert Einstein, whose theory of f galaxies of outer apace.
It would crown with success tha
live work of Einstein, who has
spent the last half of his 70 years
looking for the answer to this ul-
timate problem, known toscience
as the "unified field theory."
It was revealed to ths world
here yesterday on 20 mimeograph-
ed pages—a mixture of typewrit-
ten words and squiggly mathemati-
cal symbols that even scientists
hestltated to interpret. It was tbs
nigliah translation of Einstein's
original German.
Einstein describes it as an exten-
sion of his relativity theory and
was quick to point out that be
has "not yet found a practical way
to confront the results of the the-
ory with experimental evidence "-7
or. in short, to prove, it.
When he published the “gatwAi
theory of relativity” in 1515, Ein-
stein suggested several actual te ts
that could be made to prove Ids
Ideas — and which actually did
prove them in 1931. But this new
theorv is apparently so abstract
See EINSTEIN. Page 2
j long the last few days before the
25th. Penry said, but the patrons
were patient in the cramped quart-
ers of the office.
It you didn't get a Christmas
package until yesterday, you can
I bet it hadn't arrived in the office
untii late Sunday night. Employes
were on the go all day Sunday mak-
. ing last minute deliveries as they
Myrtle Male Morris is Ardmore, I came in.
Okla , March 4. 1942 , Just how big a Christmas it was
f -tvivors include his wife, broth- ' won't be known until the end of
er E. T Sander, of Denton: a the month when all receipts are
sister. Ola Morgan of Denton;
uncles and aunts and others
Republl-
Tru-
phosphorescent paint, giving them
a bright glow at night. 1NEA
I Photoi.
Martin and the child were slight-
ly injured and brought to a Den-
ton hospital for treatment. Occu-
pants of the first two cars in-
j volved in the accident were un-
injured
members of the ; —----2_____
CIO transport Workers Local 275, I
wallwjd off their jobs Saturday aft-
ernoon during the peak of the
Christmas Eve travel rush.
Federal Mediator Wylie H Rob
erls has not been able to get un-
ion and company officials together
for a discussion of the issues.
Company officials .-.aid
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high
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OF EAST TEXAS FOR 5 ESCAPEES
LONDON. Dec 27-iF—The sec- |
ond day of a wildcat train stop- j
page stranded thousands of holi- ;
day travelers In London and the
south of England today.
Less than a score of 268 motor-
men slated for duty reported for '
work on the South Region Electric
Lines of the State-owned British
Railwsv System The stride began
yesterday because of dlssatisfec-
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INDEPENDENT. Mo, Dec. 27— 1
'.fl—The fun of walking and talking
with old friends is about over for
President Truman.
After three days of doing just
what he wanted to during a brief
Christmas holiday vacation in his
home state, Mr Truman planned
to get in some work today in his I
Muehlebaeh Hotel )>enthouse apart- ! were 1
schedule though picket lines sur- '
ruonded the terminal
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statement saying he expects |
‘ ‘ " the President to propose a multi- :
of tax dodging. Some esti- billion dollar tax-hiking program
d that tb- government is los- I "so
proceed with Its extravagant and
evasion and by the so-called loop- illiberal plan to socialize Asnerl-
-1
George J. Grupe, 18. son of Dr.
Grupe, was stunned. He was un-
able to free Livingston and stag-
gered away. He wandered all
night and after dawn yesterday
he was found by a
this area
Major Grupe was group com-
mander of the West Texas Civil
Air Patrol and a pilot. He had
______1 from San Angelo toward
Fort Worth to take his son end
Livingston to catch a bus for Des
Moines where they were to attend
a religious meeting
A spokesman at the Jack
Schmitz and Sons funeral home,
where the bodies of the two crash
victims were taken, said that the
body of Dr. Grupe had been re-
turned to San Angelo last night
for reburial The body of Dr I
Laughlin was to be shipped
Eau Claire, Wis . tonight
I final rites.
1 Young Grupe was returned
San Angelo by ambulance last j
' night, but Livingston is still in the j
Denton Hospital and Clinic,
HUNTSVILLE. Dec 27
i Bloodhounds bayed in the
Thicket of East Texas today as
posse of 100 officers sought five of
seven desperate convicts who tun-
neled out of the state penitentiary
here
Two of the men—Ceci) Bill Isom,
serving 45 years for robbery from
Harris County, and David Crockett
McCullough, serving 22 years for
yesterday I ward because "it was too hot."
The other three later abandoned
the truck and set out afoot on the
highway. Don Kemper, serving six
years for forgery from Mitchell.
Comal. Scurry and Howard Coun-
ties, was driving at the time. The
three were believed hiding near
Groveton today.
The other two convicts were
thought to be hiding near the barn
where Isom and McCullough were
found.
Prison Manager O. B Ellis put (
"A tax Increase at this time," I
he said, "would have a depressive
effect on economic conditions gen-
erally and might precipitate the
country into a tailspin which
would cost millions of workers
their jobs.”
He predicted defeat for any tax- 1
.1 J bill
Martin renewed his plea for a
ended. "Silent
stiL'ed And
where only yesterday, the multi-
tude milled, no laughter resound- '
eth. no word Is now spoken—But
only the silence remalneth un-
broken There are rings on the
table where glasses have set A
spot on the sofa where the baby
has set The floor is just covered
with ribbons and wrappings
toy trains, and fruit cake.
Christmas tree trappings
The lamps are left burning, their
hades all awry. While off in the
lichen, are dishes, piled high
Toors have been swept not. the
■eds are unmade It is ps a camp
pot. where Gypsies have stayed
And where, one may wonder, is
‘he negligent spouse whose duty
t is to clean up the house? Why.
.he who should be sweeping and
nopplng is downtown doing her
xjst-Chrlstmas swapping
«
The summer of 1949 was said
to be one of the coolest summers
on record in Denton County, but.
at that, it evidently got pretty hot |
on the L Hut*) north oi
Aubrey. About a dozen ears of
popcorn on his place got so hot |
that the grains popiied on the cob.
He said "It was hot enough during
some of the summer to pop the
Trains on about one dozen ears of
-he popcorn in my field ”
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Black Crepe Replaces
Green Holly Over U.S.
F— | The break
B1$ ! morning
Isom and McCullough were re-
' captured In a bant 15 miles south
of Eastham Prison Farm The men
were unarmed. They said they had
split with the other five near Phelps.
The search for the remaining
five centered between New Waver-
ly and Groveton.
The men fled from the prison
in a pick tip truck but four of them
i left ths machine shortly after- j
DALLAS. Dec 27
Emory, president of the
Union Bus Terminal, today deliv-
ered an ultimatlum to striking j
CIO station workers. He told them ; nn, ois nve 1
they would have to return to their ' the scene and
tlon with the holiday duty roster '
: | robbery from Dalls* County—were
See the New DrMtas and Ply captured without a struggle soin<
mouth* at Stratton Motor*. Ph J15. j six hours after the escape.
CLEVELAND. Dec 27—<F—AFL
unionists bowed to a court Injunc-
1 tlon today and called off the city's
j six-day transit strike.
| By a voice vote, members of the
' AFL-Transit Union voted over-
whelmingly to abide by an injunc-
; tlon ordering them to give up the
strike aganst Uie city-owned Cleve-
land Transit System.
Buses apd street cars were ex-
[ pected to start roling almost im-
I mediately The injunction set a
' 2 p.m. deadline
| Transit officials, however, said
no attempt would be made be-
I fore tomorrow to maintain normal
i schedules
tropical East Indies Islands and
weeks of tough bargaining in con-
ferences between Dutch and inde-
pendence-seeking Indonesians.
With Juliana's signature, the
United States of Indonesia (U S.I.) '
became the world's newest inde-
pendent nation. It also began an
experiment In international part-
4. nershlp — the Dutch-Indonesian
* union under which the Dutch King-
dom and the Indonesian Republic
are loosely linked by the symbol
of the Netherlands crown
The queen declared that separa-
tion of the East Indies colonies
from the Netherlands was "pierc- 1
Ing . . the very roots of our
existence” and added:
"The world looks on in wonder-
ment and perceives that, here and
now, these two countries are real- 1
tzing its own depeest desire, the
desire for peace."
"In The Netherlands, this Is
viewed with solicitude." she con- 1
indicating mildly that a |
minority In The Nether-
See QUEEN. Page 2
Me-
to
for
I to
The long holiday period —>
Friday to last midnight —
counted 70 violent deaths in
Texas. It was one of the
heaviest tolls on record.
Traffic deaths alone mounted to
34. Twenty-one died violently from
' miscellaneous causes such as fires
and plane crashes and 15 were
homicides or suicides.
Among the last on the list were
these:
Antonio Larrea of Brownsville
was fatally injured when struck
by a bus last night.
Bryan Wilson Messick, 28, was
killed yesterday by a stray bullet
fired in a gun battle at Victoria.
Mana Beatrice Herrera, 2, was
killed Sunday when an automobile
accidentally backed over her in
front of her parent's home at
Victoria.
Major George Grupe, 47. of Ban
Angelo, and Dr. William McLaugh-
lin of Big Spring died in a plane
j crash near Slidell Sunday night.
MOGCOW Dec 27—(Fl—Testi- I ‘
mony at the trial of Japanese war I
prisoners as carried by the So-
viet press today gave the inipies-
slon that the, United States and
Britain )$-ere to be targets of a
germ war attack.
Newspaper accounts of the trial
quoted Japanese prisoners as say- ,
Ing the scheme had progressed to '
the point where American prisoner*
were sent to special bacteria plants
to be experimented upon as human
guinea pigs. representatives of the Brasos Riv-
The trial of 12 Japanese army
— officers wa* reported proceeding
- at Khabarovsk, Siberts.
By Infecting their American
prisoners with certain germs, the
Japanese were quoted as saying j
they sought to determine how An- '
glo-Saxons would react to various
diseases and plagues.
The accounts also said the Jap-
One inan and a small child were , anese experimented with their
Injured when a car overturned American victims to find out from
as the driver attempted to avert what diseases they were immune,
piling into another accident. The i The plan was. the newspapers
double accident occurred about said, to find out what kind of
12 30 p m. Monday near Roanoke, germs would be best to use in a
'—*i invasion of the United
1 States and Britain by the wholesale
use of germs against the civilian
populations.
I The details of the trial are be-
Muehlebach Hotel )>enthouse apart-
ment in Kansas City.
He returns to Washington to-
morrow
The president still must put Uie
final touches on three major mes-
sages to Congress—state of
Union, economic report and
budget
Presumably, however, this
be done in Washington after last-
minute talks with top government
leaders and congressional lead
ers.
Nb schedule has been finally de-
1 elded upon for the delivery of the
1 three messages The Sta- ’ '■ of
• w«*s*w*s wilier*) VO wivtz W>
billion at the time of the 1929 n. Union message may be d .hered
nanclal crash
Those dealing in consumer cred-
it — which includes charge ac- •
counts in the stores, service credit, . Britain. Tito Sign Pact
Major George Grupe. 47, of San 1 flown
Angelo, a member of the state
board of chiropractic examiners,
and his former associate. Dr.
William McLaughlin of Big Spring,
I died from Injuries received in the
crash.
James Thomas Livingston. 18.
of San Angelo, was pinned in the
Investigating officera gave the fol- , bacteria
lowing report:
Frank L Powledge, 83. chief
deputy In the county tax asaesaor-
collector'a office, was headed north publMty* by" the
soviet press and radio. The ac-
| counts give the Impression to the
\ ______ 1 Soviet Army
saved the United States and Bri-
tain from the horrors of air-borne
germs
Tax Dodging Is Target
WASHINGTON. Dec 27— (F — ,
Congress may call for a crack-
down on tax evaders and close
some tax law "loopholes" before
it considers any legislation to
raise tax rates on individuals or
corporations.
Rep. Forand (D-RI), member
the tax-framing House Ways
and Means Committee, today told
newsmen:
"If every tax legally owed the
government were collected, I be-
lieve the budget could be balanc-
ed without resorting to any
increases."
in the Royal Palace climaxed four $
I lem (
mated that tb- „___________ _
Ing 85.000,000,000 a year by tax
Postal Employes
Say ‘Thanks9 For
Fine Cooperation
buses !
arriving and departing on |
from postal employes as work at
' the Denton post office started ita
I slow return to normalcy after the
largest Christmas on record.
Postmaster M. D. Penry convey- ' the view of other scientists, will
ed hb whole staff's praise for the *s highest scientific
I patrons who mailed their cards '
and packages early this year Pen-
ry said that this year's volume [
Georgia Traffic
Mishap Hurts 8
RISING FAWN, Os , Dec 37—
(F)— Eight persons, including two
ministers, were Injured in a traf-
fic accident which disrupted a
funeral procession near here yes-
terday
Seven persons were in an auto-
mobile driven by the Rev. Thomas
A Chastain. 63. when it collided
with a car driven by Charles F.
Crompton of Telephone. Tex.
Rev Chastain and Mrs. Ella Fair- |
banks. 48. of Chattanooga, were
injured seriously. EAST TEXAS Partly cloudy ex- "
Georgia State Patrol officials I
said the Chastain car was near
the end of the funeral procession
when the accident occurred. They
added that no charges were filed
pending an investigation.
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