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NO MATTER WHO DID IT
Assassination of Tunisian
Union Leader Helps Commies
More Prolection Demanded
Against Defective Housing
E A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
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By WILLIAM L. RYAN
AP Foreign News Analyst
No matter who committed the
crime, the assassination of Far-
hat Hached, the trade union lead-
er in Tunisia, could not have been
better timed to hurt the French
and help the Communists in that
North African protectorate
The assassination came Friday,
after the United Nations Political
Committe took up the Tunisian
question in a meeting boycotted by
Paris.
Hached was an anti-Communist
who long ago nailed the World
Federation of Trade Unions as the
Commuist phoney front that it
ia, and who was attempting to lead
Tunisians away from the domina-
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The Abilene District Retail Gro-
cers Association will holds its an-
nual banquet Tuesday night begin-
ning at 8 o'clock at the Abilene
Christian College dining hall.
Some 450 members and guests
are expected to attend. The asso-
ciation now has 384 members and
associate members.
Students from ACC, McMurry
College and Hardin-Simmons Uni-
versity are to furnish the enter-
/ - tainment.
Four officers and 29 directors to
serve during 1953 will be elected at
the banquet.
Present officers of the associa-
tion include these: W. B. Hagens,
Anson, president; J. M. Lawrence,
Sweetwater, first vice president;
J. H. Day, Abilene, second vice
president; and Milton Newman,
Abilene, secretary treasurer.
tion the Communists were and still
are tryig to impose.
The SFTU has flooded North
Africa with agents on a vast scale,
assigned to seize the nationalist
movements in Tunisia ad else-
where and turn them to Moscow's
advantage.
But with feeling as high as it
is now, the wrath of Tunisian trade
unionists is likely to be taken out
first on the French, who „have
much in their Tunisian record
they cannot boast of.
Hached was a strong leader of
the UGTT, the Union Generate
Tunisienne du Travail {General
Tunisian Federation of Trade
Unions.) As its secretary general,
be led it to the break with the Com-
munist-dominated SFTU and into
alliance with the anti-Communist
International Confederation of Free
Trade Unions.
With Hached dead and many
other leading trade union chiefs
of Tunisia in French jails, the
movement will be severely weak-
ened and prey to divisive tactics,
at which the Communists sre ex-
pert.
Tunisia may yet serve the world
as a glaring example of how com-
munism may be built in a country
where it once was a negligible
force.
Nationalist leaders of Tunisia
MRS. JOHN CURTIS, CAROL ANNE, JOHNNY
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Philosophical Group
COLLEGE STATION, Dec. 7 in
—Dudley K. Woodward Jr., Dallas
attorney, was elected president of
the 115-year-old Philosophical So-
ciety of Texas at the annual meet-
ing here last night.
He succeeded E. L. Kurth, Luf-
kin industrialist, who was host to
members of the society st the ban-
quet preceding the meeting.
1 Vice presidents for the coming
year named by the society include
former Gov. W. P Hobby of Hous-
ton. Dr. R. N. Richardson of Abi-
lene, Federal Judge R. Ewing
Thomason of El Paso, Robert Lee
Bobbitt of San Antonio and Judge
John E. Hickman of Austin.
Dr. Herbert Gambrell of Dallas
was re-elected corresponding sec-
retary. and Sam H. Acheson of
Dallas recording secreUry. George
Waverly Briggs of Dallas was re-
elected tressurer end William E.
Wrather of Dallas wss named U-
have insisted all along that com-
munism did not appeal to the Tun-
isians. But as has happened many
times before, a large number of
people in a country struggling for
an end to colonialism will grasp
at any help from the outside, how-
ever dangerous. The Communists
are more and more in evidence to
offer that "help." The program has
been mapped out for them care-
fully and advertised fully at the
recent Soviet party congress.
Nationalist leaders now in jail
in Tunisia have insisted they did
not seek the elimination of France
from the North African protector-
ate, either as a strategic, cultural
or economic force. They insisted
they wanted to get along with the
French, hut in a condition of in-
ternal autonomy. They insisted
they could then keep communism
out
These leaders even contended
that they would seek the co-opera-
tion of the French after Tunisian
autonomy came about, because
they would need French techni-
cians, teachers, experts in agricul-
ture and economics, to get along.
Hached himself insisted the only
proper way to solve the French-
Tunisian difficulties was through
free and full negotiation with the
French government. It probably
would have been the last thing the
Communists wanted. It would have
pulled the props out from under
the feverishly active Reds.
But the French are caught in a
squeeze. Pressure from abroad to
ease the Tunisian problem Is coun-
tered by pressure at home to re-
sist the Tunisian demands. The re-
Carol Anne and Johnny Curtis
have had to do a lot of traveling
to keep up with Daddy in their
young lives.
Friday they hauled off again for
the Pacific for the second time.
Carol Anne. 6, and Johnny, 5, are
children of Major and Mrs. John
E Curtis of Fort Worth.
Major Curtis, an Air Force of-
ficer. three weeks ago was trans-
ferred from Brookley Air Force
Base, Mobile, Ala., to Tokyo.
Mrs. Curtis, the former Billie
Mae Byers of Abilene, and the
children left Abilene Fridsy en
route to San Francisco where they
have to report by Dec. 10 for trans-
Abilene High School in 1942. at-
tended McMurry College, and was
married here in August, 1943, to
Major Curtis.
He hss been In service 10 years.
He first was in the Army then
transferred to the Air Force in
1949.
The Curtises expect to be in To-
kyo a year or 18 months
Mrs. Curtis' parents are Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Byers. 1417 South Second
St., Abilene. She and the children
visited in the Byers home Thurs-
day.
By ■. L. LIVINGSTONE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 » — A
House subco.. mittee today de-
manded more protection for home
purchasers against defective hous-
ing erected with federal aid
The group held that emergency
needs are largely met and that the
emphasis in the government’s
housing program should shift from
speed in output toward improve-
ment of the product.
Reporting on a year's study of
the operations of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration snd the Veter-
ans Administration, the subcom-
mittee:
1. Recommended s nine-point
program for correction of "serious
deficiencies." with special empha-
sis on home warranties and bond-
ing devices binding contractors to
deliver according to plan.
2. Scored contractors who "hide
behind dissolved corporations’ ” and
refuse to return cash deposits, or
fail to make good on faulty or to-
completed housing.
J. Voiced special concern over
“ineffective pre-site engineering
and land planning” creating sani-
tation and drainage hazards
Rep. Rains (D-Ala), chairman
of the House banking subcommit-
tee which undertook a year’s in-
vestigation of the government's
mortgage insurance program, said
the postwar housing emergency is
passing and the emphasis should
now be on quality rather than
widespread or so serious as to
raise even the slightest doubt as
to the basic wisdom and success
of the FHA sad VA-aided pro-
grams as a whole." Investigators
said.
However, they also said it was
essential that an orderly change
be made in FHA and VA opera-
tions "to place greater emphasis
on raising housing standards with
respect to site planning, size of
rooms and other design features,
and construction quality.”
Protection of the individual
home buyer was put high on the
list of recommended changes.
The subcommittee said a stand-
ard contract form should be pre-
pared to contain a warranty by the
builder that his bousing is free of
major construction defects and
conforms with plans and specifics,
tions Repeated complaints by
home owners on the score were
reported.
Ex-Coleman Woman
Dies in California
SANTA ANNA. Dec. 7 (RNS) -
Mrs. Sid Woliver, 25. formerly of
Coleman, died at 9 p.m. Saturday
in a Sacramento, Calif., hospital,
having been stricken with bulbar
polio one week earlier.
Her father, J. W. Mercer of Cole-
man. left Abilene by plane at 7 p.
m Sunday for Sacramento to at-
tend the funeral which will be held
at 11 a m Tuesday. She will be
buried in a Sacramento cemetery.
Mrs Woliver was born June 26,
1927, in Talpa and her family la-
ter moved to Coleman. She gradu-
ated from Coleman High School
and was employed in the Bank of
America at Richmond, Calif., be-
fore her marriage.
Her mother. Mrs. E. L. Welling-
ton. resides in Mount View, Calif.
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brarian. ,
New directors were Woodward,
Kurth, Hobby, Gambrell, Briggs T .ricientiv
and A Frank Smith of Houston; nists operate most efficiently
L. Clayton of Houston, A. P.
Brogan of Austin, Miss Ims Hogg
of Houston and Burke Baker of
Houston.
Sixty members of the society and
their guests attended the meeting
here Gibb Gilchrist, chancellor of
the Texas A&M College system,
delivered an address.
Austrian Cardinal
Blasts Communism
VIENNA, Austria, Dec. 7 —
Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, bead of
the Roman Catholic church In
Austria, today denounced the
forthcoming Communist-sponsored
World Peace Congress here end
called communism Itself en enemy
of international peace
He addressed a Catholic rally in
Vienna’s Concert Hall where the
peace congress will convene Fri-
day. His address highlighted a
Catholic campaign which was
started a week before the con-
gress opening
portation overseas.
In February, 1948, they went to
Saipan where Major Curtis was sta-
tioned. They lived there until Jan-
uary, 1949
Mrs. Curtis was graduated from
UNESCO Activities
Rapped by Kiwanian
PALESTINE, Tex., Dec. 7 —
A trustee of Kiwanis International
today expressed concern over what
he termed left-wing activities of
the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organiza-
tion (UNESCO).
Raymond Robbins of Athena, ad-
dressing a Division 14 Kiwanis or-
ganisational conference here
charged that numerous books and
pamphlets written by Dr. Harold
Rugg, a UNESCO committee mem-
ber. sre "contrary to the Ameri-
can concept"
Robbins said Rugge books are
ia 3,000 American public schools.
The speaker alee Mid he e wor-
ried about what he called a ten-
dency to place the United Nations
flag above the American flag.
Mrs. J. E. Lovvorn’s
Riles Set Tuesday
STAMFORD, Dec. 7 (RNS)—Fu-
neral for Mrs J. E. Lovvorn. 57, of
Stamford, who died suddenly while
attending the Stamford-Seminole
football game in Snyder Saturday,
will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
The Rev. Byron Bryant, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, will
conduct the servies in that
church. Burial will be in Highland
Cemetery here under the direction
of Kinney Funeral Home.
Mrs. Lovvorn suffered a heart
attack at the football game and a
Stamford physician. Dr. Ike Hud-
son. who was sitting nearby, pro-
nounced her dead within minutes
after she waa stricken.
Born in Haskell County in 1895.
she wss the former Lula Clark.
She married J. K. Lovvorn In Has-
kell Dec 16, 1915. The family has
lived in Stamford several years
She was a member of the Stam
ford First Baptist Church
Survivors include her busband,
four sons. T. J. (Froggie) Lovvorn,
assistant track coach at the Uni-
versity of Texas: Wilson of Wood-
land. Calif; Capt W E. Lovvorn
with the Air Force in Alaska, and
Dan of Stamford: two daughters
Mrs. Bob Cornell of Stockton,
Calif., snd Noretta, IS. of Stam-
ford: a brother, A. E. Clark of
Lubbock, and eight granddaugh-
ters.
The son, W E., who is serving
with the Air Force in Alssks sent
word that he would not be able to
attend the funeral. Other relatives
en route to Stamford were due to
arrive Sunday and Monday.
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Other survivors include her hus-
band and two children, Sharron, (.
and Jimmy, A of Sacramento; a
brother. Milton Mercer of Brown-
wood; two sisters, Jean Graham of
Los Altos, Calif., and Mrs. How-
ard Fullen of Coleman.
Dowager Queen
To Miss Coronation
LONDON, Dec. 7 * — Queen
Mary has decided not to attend the
coronation next June of her grand-
daughter, Queen Elisabeth II, be-
cause of the state of her health,
informed sources said today
The Queen dowager, now 86, was
said to fear that the long corona-
tion ceremony would tax her fall-
ing strength too much. A television
fan, she probably will watch the
ceremonies from her home, Marl-
borough House, at least so much
of it as is televised
qu entity.
The subcommittee nonetheless
found that the net result of the
government aid program was "out-
standing.” with six million new
homes erected under it since 1946.
"When placed in the perspective
of the result of the total govern-
ment aided program, the deficien-
clee which were found were not so
Famous British
Archaeologist Dies
JERUSALEM, Dec. T n - Lt.
Col. Philip Langstaffe Ord Guy, 67,
the British archaeologist who un-
earthed King Solomon's stables a
quarter of a century ago, died here
today after a long illness.
He made his famous discovery
st Megiddo, Palestine, while direc-
tor of excavations there for the
University of Chicago.
Snow in Yugoslavia
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Dec. 7
(—Winter storms swept over Yu-
goslavia today. Heavy snows and
gales disrupted communications
and isolated at least one town.
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REWARD FOR CROWS — As part of a crow-eradication
drive, the agriculture committee of the Belton, Tex., Chamber
of Commerce, released several bounty crows worth money
to the hunter who bagged one. The crow being released here
carried a tag worth $25 Nelson Handler, former president
of the Texas Pecan Growers’ association, releases the crow
while Joe Chance and Jarrett Coppin of the Bell County
Sportsman’s club pose with guns ready. (AP Photo)
Soldier Crime Rate
Declines in Europe
I HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dee
7 — American soldiers stationed
in Germany, England and France
committed 1,399 Crimea in a six-
month period ending Oct 31, the
Army’s European headquarters
here said today.
They included such major crimes
as three murders, 74 rapes, 461
assaults, 57 robberies and 307
thefts.
The other 497 cases included
suicide attempted suicide, black-
marketing. currency violations,
forgery, use of drugs, manslaugh-
ter, fraud and smuggling.
The Army said the soldier crime
rate in Europe was lower today
than a year ago and below the
Army average for 19S1.
The rate la based on the number
at crimes committed per 1.000
troops, but the actual percentages
are classified military informa-
tion. With such percentages, the
Army Mid. U. S. troop strength
in Europe could be determined by
a potential enemy
Fort Worth Man
Heads State Guard
AUSTIN. Dec. 7 (P—Col. Mar
shall H Kennedy of Fort Worth
today was elected president of the
Texas State Guard Association for
1953, succeeding William J. Lew-
son of Austin Fort Worth wss se-
lected as the 1953 convention city.
Along with Kennady, Col. Robert
Huson of Refugio Col. James M.
Delmar of Houston snd Lieut. Col.
J Adoue Parker were elected vice
presidents. Weldon H. Swenson of
Austin, wss re-elected state fin-
ance officer.
Kennady appointed John H. Al-
vis of Abilene as judge advocate:
James B Burleson of Dallas, ss
adjutant, snd reappointed The Rev
Leopold Bujnowski of Brownwood
M chaplain. Col. Donald W. Pea-
rock of San Antonlo. chief of staff
of the Texas State Guard Associa
tion, was named chairman of the
executive council.
A resolution favoring universal
military training and service, sub-
mitted by Joe K. Wells of Austin,
resolutions chairman, wM adopted.
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