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WEST TEXAS — Partly
cloudy this afternoon and to-
night. A few scattered showers
from the Pecos Valley eastward.
Not much change in tempera-
ture.
Sweetwater Reporter
Continuous Full Leased United Press Wire Service
51st Year
'Dedicated to Service'
Sweetwater, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 19, 1948
'Buy It In Sweetwater'
Rain Report
Sweetwater Area
Jjant 24 hours None
Thin month SI
Last Month 3.78 inches
This Year 9.HI
Number 224
Texans Face
Write - in On
" Senate Race
By O. B. LLOYD, JR.
U. P. Staff Correspondent
AUSTIN, Tex., Sept, 18,
(UP)— Six parties, in ad-
dition to independent and
write-In candidates, will be
carried on Texas' General
Election ballot of Nov. 2.
fc- The final certifications, closed
out at last night's deadline by
Secretary of State Paul Brown,
lists nominees under the ban-
ners of the Democratic, Repub-
lican, States' Rights, Prohibi-
tion, Progressive and Socialist
parties.
For President, Texas voters
may take their pick of Harry
S. Truman, Democrat; Thomas E.
Dewey, Republican; J. Strom
Thurmond, States' Rights;
' Claude A. Watson, Prohibition;
Norman Thomas, Socialist, and
Henrv Wallace, Progressive.
The ballot carries two
candidates for Cnited States
Senator.
Republicans are offering
Jack Porter, while the Pro-
hibition party has nominat-
ed Sam Morris.
The Senatorial space in
the Democratic column is
blank.
Both Lyndon Johnson and
Coke Stevenson claim the berth.
Until the issue is decided, the
ballot will carry no name.
Cyclone Davis, veteran Sena-
torial candidate, attempted to
certify himself under the flag of
the Texas pension party. But
the Secretary of State ruled him
out of order on the ground it
wasn't properly qualified.
Gov. Beauford Jester, asking
.. re-election to his second term
w as the Democratic candidate,
faces opposition on three fronts.
Alvin H. Lane opposes him as
the Republican nominee.
Gerald Overholt is the Prohi-
bition nominee.
Herman Wright is the candi-
date of the Progressives.
A full field is offered for Vice
Presidents.
Specifically, Alben Barkley,
Democrat: Karl Warren, Repub-
lican; Fielding L. Wright, States'
Rights: Dale H. Learn, Prohibi-
tion; Glen H. Taylor, Progres-
See SENATE RACE On Page 8
Stevenson Lawyers
Make Doubly Sure
In Court Actions
^ JUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 18, (UP)
Attorneys for former Gov. Coke
R. (Calculatin' Coke) Steven-
son effectively cut off the last
avenue today for immediate
certification of Lyndon B. John-
son as Texas' Junior U. S. Sen-
ator until a federal court acts
next Tuesday.
Lawyers for the former gov-
ernor, who had not lost an elec-
tion in 30 years of political life,
, enjoined Secretary of State Paul
H. Brown and 254 county elec-
tion boards in Texas from put-
ting Johnson's name on the
Nov. 2 general election ballot
pending an injunction hearings.
Federal District Judge T.
Whitfield Davidson is scheduled
to rule in Fort Worth Tuesday
whether a permanent injunction
should be issued against Brown
and top Democratic officials.
Only Johnson, Tom Tyson of
Corsicana, Chairman of the
*'*' Democratic State Convention and
Vann M. Kennedy, Secretary of
the State Executive Committee,
were listed as defendants in an
original legal action filed by
Stevenson.
The convention certified John-
son as winner over Stevenson
by 87 votes in the Aug. 28 Demo-
cratic primary runoff. Tyson
and Kennedy signed the certi-
ficate naming Johnson as vic-
i tor.
Stevenson's lawyers, in order
to make certain that Johnson
could not get on the ballot,
amended their petition for a
tem|x>rary restralner by making
Brown and the Tarrant county
election hoard defendants.
Stevenson had charged that
202 votes were added illegally
in precinct 111 of Jim Wells
county and that 201 of them were
for Johnson.
BERNADOTTE KILLED. Count Folke Bernadotte, United
Nations mediator lor Palestine, who has been reported killed
in Jerusalem, is shown here with his wife at Le Bourget Air-
port in Paris, earlier this week. (NEA Teleplioto).
One Of Big Planes Is
Forced Out By Mishap
TWbbT/
Our Police Chief Says—
Boys and girls, vacation
time Is over and schools
are opening up again. I
hope you had fun this sum-
mer and that you will keep
on having fun this autumn.
One way to do this is to go
to school by the safest
route and by watching all
approaching cars as you
cross intersections. And ton,
always play on the play-
ground and never In the
street.
COLD BAY, Alaska, Sept.
18, (UP)—The B-2! Super-
fortress "Hi Butch" en-
route from Tokoyo to Min-
neapolis, made an emergen-
cy landing at this western
lip of Alaska late last night
with one engine afire and
a jammed bomb l>a,v gas
tank hanging from the bel-
ly-
For 30 harrowing minutes
two crew members unsuccess-
fully tried to hack loose the
tank, with an axe while the
bomb bay doors gaped beneath
them as the plane flew at 20,-
000 feet.
With the temperature ten be-
low zero and the sides of the
bomb bay coated with ice, engi-
neer Sgt. Robert V. Jones, Mon-
rovia, N. Y. crawled through the
hatch out to the bomb bay. lie
was followed by gunner Chris-
topher Pollock, Annapolis, Md.
Armed with an axe and screw
drivers and encumbered by
life jackets and parachutes, the
pair tugged and chopped at the
tank, trying to drop it 20,000
feet into the North Pacific.
The pilot of the plane saw
the futility of their efforts and
ordered the men back into the
cockpit.
Later 1 learned the number
three engine caught fire and
the prop was feathered.
The pilot, 1st Lt. Vernon L.
Wolfe, Stockman, Neb., was
faced with the alternative of
ditching the plane in freezing
water or trying to land wit.f the
bomb bay doors open anil the
tank still dripping high octane
gas. lie gambled on the latter.
As the pilot made his land-
ing approach a second engine
began smoking and he landed
See BIG PLANE On Page Eight
Miss Mary Price
Rites Held Here
Miss Mary Price, 78, resident
of Sweetwater for 45 years and
veteran employee of the South-
western Bell Telephone Co.,
died Friday at 7 p. m. at the
home of her niece, Mrs. Burnice
Rone, 20!) East Avenue C, where
she resided.
Funeral services were held
here Saturday at -1 p. m. at the
Patterson Funeral chapel with
Dr. E. B. Surface of Abilene, as-
sisted by the Bev. George R. Wil-
son, officiating. Pallbearers were
C. D. Leonard, R. B. Peterson,
Lee Adams, C. S. Willis, .1. C.
Penson and Gus Sommerville.
Burial was in the Sweetwater
cemetery.
A native of Russiville, K.v.,
she was born on October 17,
1809. She came to Sweetwater
in 1903 and worked for the tele-
phone company for 28 years and
five months before her retire-
ment in 1935.
She was a member of the
Cumberlain Presbyterian Church
in Abilene. She was known a*
"auntie" by many people. Her
home was with her niece, Mrs.
Rone, and her great-niece,
Beatrice Rone.
Survivors include a sister,
Mrs. J. A. Boyce, Abilene; two
nieces, Mrs. Rone of Sweetwater
and Mrs. Claud Comeg.vs of
Merkel; and a nephew, R. H.
Christopher, Sweetwater.
Controls Leading
Farmers To Ruin
Dewey Declares
PAWLING, N. Y., Sept. 18—
(UP)—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey,
Republican presidential nominee,
said today that Washington con-
trols were leading farming to
ruin.
In an exchange of views with
newspaper and farm editors,
Dewey said he opposed the gov-
ernment ordering the amount of
production from each acre of till
able soil.
"Whenever you put into the
hands of a few men in Washing-
ton the power to order the eco-
nomic relationship you almost
invariably destoy it," lie said.
Dewey expressed concern over
what he called the "tragic de-
pletion" of livestock herds anil
See CONTROLS On Page Eight
B-29's Roar
In From All
Over World
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18
(UP)—B-29 Superfortress-
es, roaring into the United
States front bases strung
from Japan to Germany, be-
gan hitting their targets
jvith precision timing today
in the air force's greatest
air show.
The first to hit their targets
were two B-29's which roared
over Pittsburgh after a 4,555-
mile non-stop flight from Ice-
land via West Palm Beach, Fla.
Piloted bv Maj. James R.
Dale, Wise, Va., and 1st Lt. John
D. Javis, Denton, Tex., the
planes which hit Pittsburgh
were from the 43rd Bomb Group,
Tucson, Ariz. They touched
down at Pittsburgh at 8:58 A.
M. EDT and 9:01 A. M. EDT
for an elapsed time from Keflav-
ik airport of approximately 20
hours. They were the first two
of 50 Superforts to reach their
targets.
Superforts were winging to-
ward 24 other cities in a show of
air power which President Tru-
man said was a manifestation
to the world that the nation is
"secure in its own strength" and
determined "to maintain the
cause of peace."
As the bombers moved on-
to a stage that covered the
entire United States, Gen.
Muir S. Fairchild, air force
vice chief of staff, cautious-
ly gave details on three new
jet fighters and a sonic re-
search plane now on the
ground or taxiing or test
flight stage.
Speaking in San Francisco, he
said these planes are the XF-85
"parasite" fighter which has
been launched from a B-29; the
XF-88, a twin-jet, high-speed
fighter; the XF-89, jet version
of the wartime black wic&w
night fighter, and the X-4. a
research plane designed to ex-
plore the region around the
speed of sound.
"Mechanical difficulties" over-
took two B-29's, forcing them to
land short of their goals, the
air force announced. One, flying
a great circle course from
Shemya in the Aleutian Islands
to Baltimore, Mo., turned off
for a landing at Roswell Air
Force base, N. M. The plane
was from the 98th BB Group
on Okinawa.
The second B-29, headed over
a 4,702,mile route from Hawaii
to Buffalo, landed at Smokey
Air Force base, Salina, Kan., at
8:13 a. m. EDT. It was from the
See B-29 On Page Eight
District Court Docket Has
Full Setting; New Official
Court Reporter Is On Duty
The 32nd District Court,
Judge Albert S. Mauzey presid-
ing, has a full docket of cases
set for the next several weeks.
Last week the grand jury did
its initiation job, returning 14
indictments, largely involving
minor offenses.
The court was busy with di-
vorce cases principally in its
first week.
Monday's docket has set the
civil suit of Andy Gooch vs. O.
C. Mitchell. This grows out of an
automobile and truck collision
some time ago on Highway 80.
The case of J. W. Lar.gford vs.
a compensation insurance com-
pany seeking recovery on loss of
wages from an injury is also set
for Monday.
Wednesday the case of J. B.
Nobles vs. C. E. I^eon, growing
out of a traffic collision is set
for trial.
A number of criminal cases
are due to be tried this week,
most of them expected to be
settled by pleas of guilty.
A new official court re-
porter is on duty with the
opening of the fall term.
Ray O'Neill, who comes
from the 38th judicial dis-
trict in South Texas, has
been appointed court re-
porter succeeding Oscar
Taylor who recently resign-
ed to aceept a place with
one of the Lubbock district
courts. Mr. and Mrs. O'Neill
have an apartment at the
home of Dr. and Mrs. H. W.
Mclntyre on Moody Road.
Israel Hunts Terrorists;
U.S. Minister Threatened
500 Here For
Interesting
Horse Show
Under the sweltering heat of
a late summer day more than 500
persons Were on hand at the
opening of the Nolan County
Horse Show held at the Webster
Auction Barns west of Sweet-
water Saturday.
The show presented for the
first time this year is slated to
become an important affair for
horsemen of Nolan and sur-
rounding counties, it was predict-
ed. Entrants were present from
such distances as Sheridan, Wyo-
ming.
With approximately 60 entries
to speak for themselves the
Horse Show has been slated as
an all out success.
A1 Summerlin, veteran race
horse and thoroughbred breeder,
from Rotan stated that the qual-
ity of "horses, exhibited is of the
top bracket." Backing him in the
statement was Tom Wade, local [
horseman.
The Nolan County Horse Show
marked a big success premier
and already have launched plans
to make the event an annual af-
fair.
Robert May, director of the
show said, "Enthusiasm among
the entrants proves that all are
satisfied."
Judging the meet was Cecil
Childers. Childers is a rancher
from north of Abilene, Texas.
He is well known throughout
the Texas horse raising circles
as one of the top polo and race
horsemen in this territory.
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Reds and De Gaulle
Followers Engage
In Bloody Skirmish
PARIS, Sept. 18 (UP) —One
person was killed and at least 20
others were wounded when Com-
munists and De Gaullists bat-
tled and exchanged shots at Gre-
noble in southern France today,
police reported.
Dead was one of Gen. Charles
De Gaulle's bodyguards who
was injured during a clash with
Communists in a Grenoble su-
burb as the general drove
through this morning.
The wounded, including two
policemen, were casualties of a
bloody skirmish that broke out
between the two extremist fac-
tions after De Gaulle spoke at
City Hall and after he had left
the city.
Police estimated the Com1
munist crowd at 3,000 ard the
right-wingers at 20,000.
De Gaulle declared the present
middle-of-the road government
was "done for in advance." He I cent.
READY FOR BUSINESS—The mobile X-Ray unit pictured
above arrived in Sweetwater Saturday and the equipment
lias been set up in the high school gymnasium ready for oper-
ation on Monday. Free chest X-Rays for the residents of No-
lan County will be available for persons 15 years of age and
over during the four-day visit of the unit here and in Roscoe.
The visit of the unit is sponsored by the Nolan County T. B.
Association and has the approval of the local Medical Society.
Mobile X-Ray Unit Set
Up At High School Gym
The Mobile X-Ray Unit arrived
this week-end and has been set
up in the Sweetwater High
School gymnasium ready to be-
gin the X-ray survey of Nolan
County citizens Monday morn-
ing, according to Rigdon Ed-
wards, president of the Nolan
County Tuberculosis Association.
The unit will open Mon-
day at 8:30 a. ni. and con-
tinue until 12 noon. Opera-
tion will resume at 1:30 p.
m. after lunch and continue
until 4:30. The same sched-
ule will be in effect on Tues-
day here in Sweetwater.
On Wednesday, the unit will
be set up in Roscoe at the high
school gymnasium. It will be in
operation from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m.
on Wednesday and from 8 a. m.
to 12 noon on Thursday in Ros-
coe.
Mrs. Ethel Perrman, field
worker for the Texas Tubercu- llirif Dftfjirianf
losis Association, will be in Iw Vljll l\USUI iClli J
charge of the registration for . .
the survey. Local women will MOnQdY LlMCllCOn
District Governor Ira E.
Woods of Rotary International I
will be an official guest of the
Sweetwater Rotary Club lunch-
eon Morday noon at the Blue j
Bonnet Hotel "Skyroom."
The Littlefield optometrist is j
making a tour of clubs in this I
territory and will meet with club !
officers, committee leaders and'
others following the regular
luncheon.
President Albert Norred of
the local club will present the
guest of honor.
District Governor
survey.
assist under the direction of
Mrs. Philip Yonge, survey chair-
man.
Members of the Rotary
Club have agreed to have
their X-rays made sometime
Monday morning and wear
their togs to the regular
noon-day luncheon.
The Lions on Tuesday will re-
port for their X-ray pictures in
the morning before going to the
High School cafeteria for lunch.
Members of the Business and
Professional Women's Club have
gone on record as wishing to
participate in the survey 100 per
said also that it might not heed
his demand for a general elec-
tion.
"In that case we shall do just
as we did in 1940—restore the
republic ourselves," De Gaulle
stated.
CALLED TO FORT WORTH
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Brandt and
daughter, Pat, were called to
Fort Worth Saturday by news
of the death of Mrs. Brandt's
grandmother. Mrs. Alice Utley.
Funeral services will be held
in Fort Worth Monday.
Tom Love, Political
Arrangements have been com-
pleted for the X-raying of all
school students in the county .
who are 15 years of age or more. I QaJ . Hide Af 78
Leading industries are cooper- LCuUCI, L/ICj HI 10
ating in the project by encour-
aging their employees to report
for X-rays during the visit ~f
Internationalizing
Jewish State Is
Urged In Council
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 18
(UP)—Israel today outlawed the
j Stern group, accused assassins
: of UN mediator Count Folke
Bernadotte. Some 400 Sternists
were arrested, and scores of the
garg's hideouts were raided by
police.
The cabinet met in emergen-
cy session tonight to map even
more drastic action against the
terrorists who killed the peace
maker the nations of the world
sent to Palestine to mediate be-
tween Jews and Arabs.
An official government
statement denounced .the
killers as "insane . . . gun-
men, traitors to the people
and enemies of its liberty."
Hazit Hamoleuth, fatherland
front, a splinter group of the
Stern terrorists, boasted to UN
officials in Jerusalem and for-
eign diplomats here, in notes
sent last night, that "we killed
Bernadotte because he worked
for the British and carried out
their orders."
Despite the Sternist boast, a
street ex'owd here swarmed over
a Soviet embassay car today,
tearing off a Russian flag and
doing some damage to the car
before police drove it off.
Sternists last night warn-
ed James MacDonaid, U. S.
ambassador to Israel, to get
out o the country because
"v -ni ;.r. •* >t wanted here."
id reported .the
threat to foreign minister
Moshe Shertok, and a heavy
army guard was placed
around his house.
The government cancelled all
visas. No one was allowed to en-
ter or leave the country as a na-
tiornl dragnet sought Nathjin
Friedman Yellin, Stern group
leader. Yell in was last seen in
Tel Aviv Thursday and is now
believed in Jerusalem.
Yehezkiel Saharov, inspector
general of police, said he was
sure that the "crime was perpe-
trated by Lehi (Hebrew name
I of the Stern group)." But he
! added that the letters signed by
:he Fatherland Front appeared
i to be "phoney."
This correspondent is now
I free to report that Bartley
Crum, publisher of the New
York Star, told him last Wed-
nesdav that he had interviewed
Yellin* and other top Sternists.
"The told me they were
going to get rid of one great
eneni\ of Israel," Crum told
the correspondent. He was
believed to have notified Is-
raeli Seeurit> authorities of
the threat.
(In Paris, the United Na-
tions published the statement of
its chief surviving Palestine of-
ficial, blaming "prejudicial and
unfounded statements" by Is-
raeli officials for the assassina-
tion of Bernadotte.))
The bodies of Bernadotte and
French Col. Andre Serot, who
also was killed in the murderous
tommv gun attack on the me-
See ISRAEL On Page Enght
of
the unit.
"We hope that every
adult in the community will
want to participate in this
program to control tuber-
culosis," Edwards states.
"It cannot be overemphasized j
See X-Ray On Page Eight
Truman Says G.O.P., Special Privilege
Party, "Pitchforked Farmers In Back''
DEXTER, la., Sept. 18—(UP)
—President Tru.nati opened his
midwest farm campaign today
with an acrid denunciation of his
Republican opponents as "glut-
tons of privilege."
Mr. Truman, starting a lengthy
stumping tour at the National
Plowing Match here, dealt in
harsh invective as he blasted
Wall Street reactionaries'* for
wanting "an administartion that
will assure privilege for big busi-
ness, regardless of what may
happen to the rest of the na-
tion."
Then, heaping a new criti-
cism on the Republicans In
the recent 80th Congress, the
President said "this Kepub-
struck a pitchfork in the
farmer's back."
This was Mr. Truman's first
major speech in a lengthy wes-
tern tour that by Oct. 2 will take
hint through 18 states. He start-
ed stumping Iowa this morning
by six o'clock and worked his
way here, via Des Moines.
In charging that the G. O. P.
had pitchforked the farmer, the
President said:
"They have already done
tlielr best to keep price sup-
ports from working. Many
growers have sold wheat this
summer at less than the sap-
port price because they could
not find proper storage."
"While Democrats "in the
past" had set up storage bins
for wheat and corn produc-
tion, the President said the
Inst Congress in rewriting the
charter of the Commodity
Credit Corporation had bow-
ed to "certain lobbyists rep-
resenting the speculative
grain trade."
"These big business lobbyists
and speculators persuade the
Congress not to provide storage
bins fnr the farmers," he said.
"They tied the hands of the ad-
ministartion. They are prevent-
ing us from getting up the stor
age bins that you will need in or-
der to get the support price for
your grain."
Mr. Truman opened up with
praise for the farmers of the
Middle West for their "abundant
harvests, helping to save the
world from Communism.
"The crops you are producing
are driving back the tide of mis-
ery in many lands," he said,
"Your farms are a vital element
in America's foreign policy."
Mr. Truman went on to discuss
the current foreign situation.
"I know," he said, "that the
war talk which is so prevalent
See TRUMAN On Page Eight
DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 18 (UP)
—Thomas B. Love, a former as-
sistant secretary of Treasury
under Woodrow Wilson and the
man credited with turning Tex-
as into the Republican camp in
1928, died last night at the age
of 78.
A cerebral hemorrhage was
| blamed for the death of the vet-
| eral political leader who had
| been active in national and state
politics for 50 years.
He was a former national
| committeeman, a post he resign-
ed in 1924 to fight the election
j of Mrs. Miriam A. (Ma) Fergu-
son as governor.
It was his opposition to liquor
j and gambling that turned him
J against Alfred E. Smith, the
Democratic nominee, in 1928,
and caused him to lead in the
fight that made Herbert Hoover
the Texas choice.
KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
SHERMAN, Tex., Sept. 18
(UP)—The victim of an air
crash at Perrin Air Force Field
has been identified as Cadet
James C. Ullenbruch, of Port
Huron, Mich. Perrin Field au-
thorities said Ullenbruch was
alone in an AT-6 training plane
which crashed yesterday while
approaching the field for a land-
ing.
Russians Refuse
To Talk Germany
In U. N. Session
BERLIN, Sept. 18— (UP) —
Russia warned the western pow-
ers today that the Soviet bloc
in the United Nations at Paris
will battle against any attempt
to discuss the German question.
The warning was contained in
a front page editorial in the Red
army paper Taegliche Runds-
chau, often used us an unofficial
sounding board to express the
Soviet attitude en international
questions.
The paper sai l the German
problem, including the peace
treaty belongs in the compet-
ence of the Big Four foreign
ministers not the United Nations,
"and Trygve Lie knows it.'
The editorial also charged that
the United States was threaten-
ing world peace "in sharp contra-
dition to United Nations sta-
tutes"
The Soviet warning followed
approval by German Communist
leaders ol the Soviet plan de-
manding withdrawal of all oc-
cupation forces from Berlin and
inclusion of the capital in the
Soviet Zone economy.
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