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The Weather
High Tuesday 57; low this
morning '.i8; barometric pressure
30.14 falling slightly. Increasing
cloudiness, continued fair, slight-
ly warmer.
Sweetwater Reporter
Market Reports
Cattle 1(100, generally steady;
hogs 900, buUher hogs 75-125
lower; sheep 3300, mostly
steady.
51st Year
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'Buy It In Sweetwater'
Number 17
REDS WANT GERMAN OCCUPATION ZONES ABANDONED
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l>< Top Texas News
j Northern Out
To Beat Hot
" 4eat On Flaw
! DALLAS, Jan. 21 (UP)—Bus-
ter Northern, who twice has
been convicted for beating to
death a middle-aged Oklahoma
woman, is seeking today to beat
the electric chair again on a le-
gal technicality.
Northern's first conviction
and sentence to death were re-
versed by the State Court of
Criminal appeals which held
that the indictment failed to
specify that Mrs. W. H. McHen-
ry of McAlester, Oklahoma, was
stomped to death "with the feet"
in 1946.
The 18-year old youth was
tried again last week and re-
ceived another death sentence.
His counsel sought a new trial
on a complaint that the state did
not prove that Northern used
his feet to stomp the woman to
death at the outskirts of Dallas
after she had given him a ride
in her car.
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Guernsey Breeder Head
COLLEGE STATION, Jan. 21,
(UP)Don Danpers of San Anton-
io is the new president today of
the Texas Guernsey Breeders
Assoclatioi
Danpers 'ted at the As-
sociation's meeting on
the Texas campus yes-
terday. i
Others elected are: Jack T.
Lively of Dallas, vice president;
W. C. Hardman of Grand Prai-
rie; Secretary-treasurer; and A.
B. Buchanan of Brownsfield, V.
L. Harrington of Levelland, C. C.
Cade of San Antonio, C. S. Lan-
kart of Waco and F. M. Chest-
nut of Houston, directors.
Brownwood Show Opens
BROWNWOOD, Jan. 21, (UP)
—The fifth annual Brownwood
Livestock Show has opened its
Week run today with the 74-
acre showgrounds in use for the
first time.
Governor Beauford Jester is
expected to visit the show Fri-
day night.
City Manager Discussed
$ TEXARKANA, Jan. 21, (UP)
* —Boom to bring the city
manager form of government to
Texarkana has received a help-
ing hand from a special citizens'
committee, formed to plan re-
vision of the city charter at an
election January 31st.
Attorney John D. Raffaelli,
chairman of the committee, says
his group plans to acquaint vo-
ters with advantages of revising
.. the city charter to provide for
a-city manager. He calls the
present system of city govern-
ment "a horse-and-buggy affair."
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Committees For 4H,
FFA 4-County Show
To Meet Friday At 7
The committees for the 4-H
and FFA Four-County Livestock
Show to be staged here in March
are requested to meet Friday at
7:00 p. m. in the county court
room in the Nolan County court-
house, according to A. A. Jack
Bradford, general superintend-
ent of the show.
Addition plans for the show
will be discussed at that time.
Ray McElroy Found
Not Guilty By Jury
In Sheep Theft Case
In a verdict rendered last
night, a jury in 32nd District
Court found Ray McElroy not
guilty on alleged charge of steal-
ing 32 head of sheep from T. J.
Donahue of Nolan County.
Mr. McElroy was defended in
I , this case by Temple Dickson.
V'' A damage suit case is under-
way this afternoon; that of B. F.
Clark Vs Roy Evans. A portion
of plaintiff's testimony had been
taken as The Reporter started to
press.
Thorgrimsen Speaker
H&nS Thorgrimsen will be the
speaker Thursday noon at the
regular meeting of the Sweetwa-
, . ter Club at the Blue Bonnet Ho-
I * tel, according to Pete Peterson,
president of the club.
Only 9 More Days
In Which To Pay
Your Poll Tax
2,828 Sold to Date
COSTLY THEATER FIRE—Icicles hang fron the heat-twisted steel supports over orches-
tra seats in Aggie Theater at Stillwater, Oklahoma, which was destroyed by fire of unde-
termined origin. Damage to the two-story building, which was gutted, was estimated at $100,-
000 as 12 of 26 firemen who fought the bla/.s were hospitalized briefly. (NEA Telephoto).
Dam In Roby Sector Discussed
At Big Spring Water Conclave
Hamlin Meet
Of FFA, Vets
Set Jan. 29th.
Of interest to the entire Ham-
lin trade area is the meeting
that will be held Thursday even-
ing T-muavy 29, at the tlenvew-
tary school. C. B. Spencer of
Dallas will speak to the FFA
members, Veterans and others
interested in farming.
Spencer is with the Texas Cot-
tonseed Crushers Association
and is director of the associa-
tion's agricultural department.
Spencer is known over Texas
as a fluent speaker. He will show
a picture in conjunction with his
talk relative to "oil conservation.
This motion picture will show
how farmers are losing their
soil by water erosion.
The Dallas man will outline
the amounts farmers are paying
in this area each year to cotton
insects; how best to fight the
perennial pests.
Mid-West Cooperative Oil
Mill, of which W. R. Terry is
manager, is sponsoring the Jan-
uary 29 conclave. General public
over this area is invited to the
meeting, which will begin at
7:30 o'clock.
Soviets Say U. S.
Avoids World Atomic
Energy Controls
LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 21
(UP)—At the United Nations.
Russia has charged that the
United States feverishly is try-
ing to avoid international con-
trol of atomic energy.
Russian Delegate Andrei
Gromyko made the complaint
today as the United Nations
disarmament commission met
for the first time this year. Be-
fore the commission is an Aus-
tralian resolution which would
link disarmament with atomic
control and a restoration of
world confidence.
Gromyko said this is just an-
other way of veiling the ac-
knowledged Anglo-American de-
sire to delay disarmament until
political stability is restored.
With Sweetwater's delegation
headed by Representative Har-
ley Sadler, seven local leaders
attended the Big Spring water
conference yesterday; a con-
clave called by Governor Jester
to work out solutions to West
Texas water supply problems.
A total of 92 counties, in
fact, sent 400 representatives to
the parley. Members of the
State Board of Water Engineers
and the U. S. Geological Sur-
vey described the vexing water
problem facing West Texas to-
day.
Sweetwater attendants,
besides Representative Sad-
ler, were Hans Thorgrim-
sen, city manager; Roy
Duckett, director of public
works; T. P. Johnson of
"Texas Electric Service Com-
pany, Albert Norred and
Sandy Phelps.
Governor Jester said West
Texas was late but not too late
in doing something about the
situation. It is, he told the au-
dience, a perplexing problem for
all Texas which will result in
similar meetings being held ov-
er the state, The governor ad-
dressed a luncheon of Big Spring
JayCees at noon and closed the
day-long sessions by pledging
his personal aid in making Texas
the greatest empire in the
world.
Frank Kelley was coordinator
at the sessions. The group was
welcomed by Mayor G. W. Dab-
ney. The crowd grew too large
See DAM On Page Six
Scouters Will
Leave For Big
Spring Thurs.
Carl Anderson, district Boy
Scout chairman for Nolan Coun-
ty, asks that all district com-
mitteemen going to the Annual
Buffalo Trail. Council meeting in
Big Spring meet tomorrow after-
noon, 2:00 o'clock, at the Blue
Bonnet Hotel.
"We want all district com-
mitteemen to leave the Blue
Bonnet at 2:00 p. m.," Anderson
states, "so they can be in Big
Spring by the time the business
conference opens at 4:00 p. m."
It is requested that all unit
leaders and other Scouters go-
ing to tha gathering meet at the
Blue Bonnet Hotel tomorrow
afternoon at 4:00 p. m. They
will be able to be in Big Spring
by 0:00 o'clock, when the annual
banquet gets underway.
Principal speakpr at the Buf-
falo Trail Council banquet will
be Joe Evans of El Paso, noted
after dinner speaker. ■ •.
...' • Medical
Society Hears Two
Abilene Doctors
Dr. Guy Patillo and Dr. Wade
Hedrick, both of Abilene, were
guest speakers on Tuesday
night at the regular monthly
meeting of the Tri-County Medi-
cal Society at the Sweetwater
Hospital.
Dr. R. O. Peters, president,
presided, and about 15 members
from Fisher, Nolan and Mitchell
counties were in attendance.
Dr. Patillo discussed obstetri-
cal problems, while Dr, Hedrick
had as his subject, "Rectal Prob-
lems."
Tax Reduction
Still Up Today
For Argument
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (UP)
—Senate and House Republican
leaders are reported to have dif-
ferent ideas on the amount of
tax reduction which should be
approved by Congress.
The House apparently is in
accord with Republican Repre-
sentative Haroid Knutson of
Minnesota who has proposed a
$5,600,000,000 tax cut bill. Ob-
servers say the House probably
will approve the measure as it
stands.
However, Senate Republicans
are said to favor a scaling down
of the tax measure. Some believe
the taxpayer should get less re-
lief. Others feel the Knutson bill
would take too big a bite from
government revenues.
Knutson and his House Ways
and Means Committee are meet-
ing this morning to discuss the
measure. Knutson expects his
group to approve the measure
no later than tomorrow.
Senate and House Republican
leaders arc scheduled to meet
later in the day. They'll consider
the tax bill and the legislative
budget program.
Children's Hospital
Plans To Be Made
Known In Few Days
HOUSTON, Jan. 21, (UP)—
Trustees of the Texas Childrens
Foundation say that the over-
all program for the establish-
ment of a proposed children's
hospital in the Texas Medical
Center in Houston will be made
known soon.
Foundation Trustees are con-
ducting a survey of the nation's
leading hospitals to secure in-
formation in guiding them in the
creation of the hospital in the
$100,000,000 medical center in
Houston.
Dr. David Greer of Houston
was re-elected president of the
Board of Trustees last night at
the first annual meeting. Dr.
Raymond Cohen was chosen
vice president and Leopold L,
Meyer treasurer. The 10 mem-
ber's of the charter Board of
Trustees were re-elected.
Dimes March
Donations At
Well Listed
March of Dimes contributions
at the Wishing Well, by days,
are listed below by Ney Sheri
dan, Jr., county campaign chair
man:
The JayCees collected $41.74
the first day, Kiwanis collected
$43.56 Friday, the Boy Scouts
Troop 48 took in S84.02 Satur-
day, the Rotary collected $70.99
Monday, Lions Club $66.41 Tues-
day the final day of the Wish-
ing Well. The two dances netted
$372.50.
There is not an available to-
tal at this time on the amount
of money contributed by the
March of Dimes cards through
the mail. Those people who have
not mailed their cards in to the
March of Dimes are urged to do
so.
The Wishing Well will go on
the streets in Roscoe Saturday.
| It will be under the supervision
!of George Parks, city campaign
' director for the March of Dimes
of Roscoe. Mr. Parks indicates
See DIMES On Page Six
Sweetwater Is Host
To Kimbell Dealers
From 15 Area Towns
Sweetwater is host today and
tomorrow to managers of Kim-
bell Wholesale Grocery houses
from 15 West Texas towns. The
men are here for a sales meeting
of managers, which was schedul-
ed to open at 2 p. m. today at the
Blue Bonnet Hotel. It will close
at 1 p. m. Thursday.
J. Don Jordon, general man-
ager of Kimbell Grocery Co., A.
L. Scott, general sales manager,
and Kenneth Adams, general
buyer, all from the Fort Worth
office, will be present and ap-
pear on the program. A dinner is
planned for this evening and a
luncheon tomorrow. Herbert
Chafin is manager of the Sweet-
water branch.
Managers from the 15 branch
houses in West Texas are expec-
ted to be present. They include
Amarillo, Childress, Wichita
Falls, Lubbock, Plainview, La-
mesa, Pecos, Midland, San Ange-
lo, Brady, Brownwood, Dublin,
Abilene, Stamford and Sweet-
water.
UN Team In Romantic Kashmir Will Run Into
Fantastic Conditions Of Many Passing Years
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DREAMED OF FOOD—Heinz Derzen tastes food in Milan,
Italy, for which he made a 1500 mile .journey. In his home in
the German Ruhr the lad heard his father speak of Italy as
"the land of dreams." In war-ruined Germany, dreams meant
sweets, fruit and all kinds of food. With 14 other boys Heinz
ran away from home, started for Italy and after slipping past
Swiss frontier guards was finally stopped by Milan authori-
ties. Even though the father's birthplace is Italy, the lad
must be sent back to Germany since he entered the country
illegally. (NEA Telephoto).
Service Award Goes To
Hawley At JayCee Meet
Hez Hawley, Jr., was presented
with the distinguished service
award of the Junior Chamber
of Commerce on Tuesday even-
ing at a buffet dinner- dance
given in his honor in the Sky-
room of the Blue Bonnet Hotel
by the members of the Sweet-
water JayCees.
The presentation was made
by U. A. Hyde, Abilene, execu-
tive state secretary of the Jun-
ior Chamber of Commerce, who
gave a brief outline of Hawley's
civic activities during the past
year. Hawley, president of the
local JayCees, was selected as
the most outstanding young
man for 1947.
In accepting the award, Haw-
ley stressed that any young
man who had been president of
the JayCees would have been
the recipient of the award, for
it was through the cooperation
of all the members that projects
had been accomplished.
George Etz was master of
ceremonies and introduced the
special guests of the evening,
who spoke briefly. Tom W. Davis
of El Paso, vice president for
See AWA'RD On Page Six
SRINAGAR, Jan. 21 (UP) —
The United Nations team which
will go to India to investigate
the Kashmir dispute will find
itself stepping back in the fan-
tastic conditions of the feudal
middle ages.
The contending forces in
Kashmir use modern machine
guns, warplanes and motor
trucks. Nevertheless, logic or
what passes for logic in modern
warfare, has little to do with
the war in Kashmir, at least in
the eyes of the people who are
doing most of the fighting.
There are n lot of modern
trappings to the dispute. Talk
of an eventual plebiscite to
determine whether Kashmir
shall join Hindu India or Mos-
lem Pakistan is an example.
There's also a new development
having a highly modern ring;
formation of a new free Kash-
mir republic. The self-styled
president of this republic, Sir-
dar Mahommed Ibrahim Khan,
showed up at Lake Success the
other day. He told the UN that
Kashmir's Maharajah, Sir Hari
Singh, is a tyrant, and that In-
dia, not Pakistap, va$ respon-
sible for the war. Then "there's
talk of Kashmir and some of
the wild Pathan country of Pak-
istan becoming an independent
country.
Indian Prime Minister Nehru
undoubtedly is actuated by mod-
ern motives. He hopes either to
get Kashmir to join India or to
preserve the big state's inde-
pendence until India will have
a better chance to win it by
plebiscite.
The Maharajah of Kashmir,
though, appears to be actuated
entirely by medieval considera-
tions. He fears that unless he
keeps the Moslem-populated
state tied closely to India, he
will be deposed. The Mahara-
jah Is a Hindu.
India accuses the Pakistan
government of invading Kash-
mir, and it is admitted that Pak-
istan army officers on furlough
have led the Waziri and other
Pathan tribesmen who invaded
the big state.
In recent weeks, more Ameri-
can and British newsmen have
penetrated the wild country
along Kashmir's Jrontiers and
they are bringing out a some-
what different story. They say
it is extremely doubtful if the
Pakistan government has had
anything to do with the invas-
ion of Kashmir by the tribes-
men. In fact, they say the Pak-
istan army has been steadily
withdrawn from the wild hill
country in order to give the
See UN On Page Six
Wickard Declares Many
Private Companies Try
To Cripple His Program
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (UP)
—Rural Electrification Admin-
istrator Claude Wickard charg-
es that many private power com-
panies are trying to cripple his
agency's program.
Wickard says private compan-
ies pay lip service to the ideal
of making electricity available
to everyone, but, at the same
time, are trying to cripple his
program. The Administrator
says federal financed power co-
operatives are setting the pace
in extending the nation's rural
electric lines even though some
private companies are impeding
their normal expansion.
Marshall Sees
First Year As
Chief Pass By
WASHINGTON. Jan. 21, (UP)
—George Marshall observes the
anniversary of his first year as
secretary of state today.
The job has been anything but
pleasant for the wartime army
chief of staff. And the coming
year probably will be even more
difficult. For one thing, there
still is the ticklish problem of
dealing with Russia and the
spread of communism. And Con-
gress still needs a lot of selling
before it will go along with his
"all-or-nothing" request for the
Foreign Aid Program.
Already, the 67-year-old gener-
al is running into new difficul-
ties. Experts on the long-range
Foreign Aid Program say the
plan has run into trouble in Ger-
many.
The experts say the food crisis
in Germany and the drop in Ger-
man coal production amount to
a setback of six-months for the
Foreign Aid Program.
But there is at least one bright
spot for the state secretary as he
enters the second year of his job.
Two powerful veterans organ-
izations, the American Legion !
and the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, have thrown their sup-
port behind the Marshall Plan.
The two organizations, represen- j
ting some 5,200.000 veterans, are '
Clay Sticks
By British,
U. S. Program
BERLIN, Jan. 21 (UP)—East
met West today when the Allied
Control Council for Germany
sat down in Berlin.
The East, in the person of
Soviet Marshall Sokolovsky, de-
manded the new German admin-
istrative set-up for two western
occupation zones be abandoned.
The Russian Marshall said, "The
Soviet high command insists on
the disbanding of the bizonal
organization."
Sokolovsky launched his bit-
ter attack after General Lucius
Clay, the American commander
in Germany, outlined the new
American and British zonal
agreement. It sets up a German
administration for the joint
zones.
The Russian military chief
claimed that America and Brit-
ain are breaking the Potsdam
agreement in splitting Germany.
| Clay did not accept the Rus-
| sian's argument. He denied
| there has been any violation
I and suggested that Sokolovsky
I wait until he learns more about
the Allied merger plans.
The exchange, together with a
Russian denial that the Soviets
wanted to oust America and
Britain from Berlin, cleared the
political atmosphere. But unrest
over food conditions is getting
worse in western Germany.
Some 9,000 workers already are
on strike in our zone. _ Metal
workers in Nuernberg, in the
American zone, have called a
strike for tomorrow. Chemical
,woijkers w Frankfurt threaten
to .'alk v>at soon.
The British face a 24-hour
general strike tomorrow in
Cologne.
urging Congres.
plan.
to approve the
Water Shortage Is
Cause Of Theatre
Loss At Maysville
MAYSVILLE, Jan. 21, (UP)
Because of a water -shortage,
the community of Maysville and
neighboring towns could not
stop a theater fire last night in
time to prevent $50,000 damage
to three buildings.
Fire- fighting equipment from
six towns joined local volun-
teers in a four-hour fight to con-
trol a blaze that started in the
back room of the Granada
theater, on Maysville's main
street.
REEVES TO AUSTIN
County Judge Delas Reeves
left this afternoon for Austin
to attend to several matters of
official business. He is schedul-
ed to return tomorrow night.
Crawford Cops Air
Show Applause At
Pecos Exposition
Held at Pecos Air Field since
Sunday by bad weather, Carl
Crawford and Dean Watson of
Sweetwater arrived at Municipal
Airport this morning, following
a very successful Sunday show
in Reeves County.
Crawford virtually stole the
Pecos show Sunday afternoon,
the Reeves County Sheriff's
Posse reports, with his dead
stick flying exhibition and
"How Not to Fly A Plane."
In his dead stick plane flying
Crawford jumped a car, made a
270 degree turn and landed
amid applause from 5,000 spec-
tators.
The nine-act show was staged
with benefit of perfect weather.
A three-mile- an- hour wind was
blowing and temperature read-
ing was 61 degrees.
Crawford is slated to do two
acts in the Carlsbad Air Show
Sunday, February 1,
Kiwanis Sponsored
Play To Be Given
Here February 11
The stage play, "The Impor-
tance of Being Earnest," will
be presented in Sweetwater on
Wednesday, February 11, under
the sponsorship of the Kiwanis
Club, according to the announce-
ment made today. All proceeds
from the play will go into the
Underprivileged Child Fund of
the club.
The Oscar Wilde play is pre-
sented by the Barter Theatre of
Virginia'and is under the direc-
tion of Robert Porterfield,
founder, manager and director
of the organization.
Tickets have been set at $1.50
adult and 75c children, includ-
ing tax, according to a state-
ment made by a Kiwanis Club
spokesman.
Gilmer Says U. S. To
Buy More Wheat For
Export By July 1st
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, (UP)
—Jesse Gilmer, president of the
Commodity Credit Corporation,
told the Senate Agriculture Com-
mittee today that the govern-
ment has to buy 75,000,000 more
bushels of wheat for export by
July 1st. This will bring the
export total to 450,000,000 bush-
els for the year ending June
30th.
According to Gilmer, this will
leave the country with a 150,000,-
000 carryover. He said the gov-
ernment already has bought all
the 70.000,000 bushels of other
grain it expects to export this
year.
Mother, 4 Children
Burn To Death Today
4t Minnesota Home
LITTLE FALLS, Jan. 21 (UP)
A mother and her four children
burned to death today when
flames destroyed their farm
home near Little Falls, Minn.
The woman was Mrs. Mary
Anderson. Sheriff's officers
could not provide the names of
the children, but said, the oldest
is l>elieved to lie about six.
The fire was first reported to
authorities when two farmers
arrived at Little Falls with Er-
nest Anderson, husband and
father of the victims. Anderson
was sent to a hospital with se-
rious burns.
The fire started in an over-
heated stove.
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