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M. 1. No. 101 FULL UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE
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STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1950
Attend Church
Services Sunday
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United States Backs Down From Red
Threat To Prevent Berlin Blockade
TNT Bomb Explodes On Second
Floor Rice Institute Dormitory
HOUSTON, Jan. 21 (UP)—A
TNT bomb exploded on the second
floor of a Rite Institute dormitory
early today, smashing doors and
"WINNIE” WANTS TO WIN — Conservative Party leader
Winston Churchill arrive* in Southampton alter cutting
short hie holiday at Funchal. Madeira, to return to guide hi*
party's campaign In the February general election In Britain,
phurchlll la training his political guns on the Labor govern-
ment of Clement Attlee.
Floods Drive 10,000 Out
Of Homes In 2 Stotes
CHICAGO, Jan. 21 (UP) —
Floods drove 10,000 persons from
their homes in Tennessee and Ar-
kansas today and rivers rose rap.
idly Th(jhe Pacific Northwest as IT
heavy shn<
steady rainfall.
The worst situation appeared to
be on the Mississippi River where
it passes between Northeastern
Arttsmwrhtflr western Tetmeuee*.
Army, National Guard and Red
Cross personnel rushed to evacu-
ate 5,000 . persons to tent cities
where they huddled under the can-
vas shelters as their rescuers pass-
ed out food, coffee and blankets.
A farmer drowned hi floodwat-
ers near Manila, Ark.., and a com-
panion was missing. Their, boat
capsised while they were search-
ing foT food.
The Mississippi, carrying away
a, gigantic flood crest from the
Ohio River and its tribuatries,
broke through private levees on
the Tennessee side in Dyer and
Lauderdale counties.
The Black and St. Francis Riv-
ers .also menaced lowlanders and
drove another 5,000 persons from
their homes.
The St. Francis flooded 80
square miles near Wynne, Ark.
Annual Meeting
Of Higginbothams
Held Thursday
The annual stockholders meeting
of Higginbotham Bros. A Com-
pany was held in the general of-
fices of the company in Comanche
Thursday when T. J. Williams
was re-elected president and gen-
eral manager. He gave a foil re-
port on the operations for the past
year which made it possible for
the usual dividend to be paid.
Paul Higginbotham, manager of
the Stephenville store, was includ-
ed as a member of the board of
directors. Nick Higginbotham was
also added* to the board.
Other officials elected were Her-
bert H% Williams, vice-president
and assistant general manager,
and Tom Beene, secretary-treas-
urer.
Wilson and Rufus Higginboth*
am, Mrs. O. S. Boggus, Dallas,
and Mrs. Ell Nash, Waco, all chil-
dren of the late R. W. Higgin-
botham who founded the Arm,
were tdso tn attendance.
Capital stock of the company re-
mains ot $1,500,000, and this,
with ample cash reserves, provide
a financial structure that is one
of the largest of any mercantile
establishment in the. Southwest.
windows and spraying sleeping stu-
dents with glass.
There were no injuries, and
students walked calmly outside
through clouds of heavy saioke
pouring from the men's East Hall
dormitory.
The blast roused the entire cam-
pus at 3 a.m., and police believed
the crudely-made bomb was force-
ful enough to have killed every
man in the dormitory's north wing
—and possibly all students in the
building—bad it been carefully
placed.
Investigators immediately ques-
tioned a student expelled from Rice
yesterday, theorizing a possible
“revenge” motive.
The youth was closeted in mid-
morning in the office of Hugh S.
Cameron, dean of students at Rice.
He stoutly denied any knowledge
Of the explosion, saying he had
already left the campus and spent
the night at the home of a friend.
Three Keya Found
Clues were meager, but police
considered vital three keys found
in the rubble of the second floor
hallway.
One was to the door of Room
236, -nearest to the point where
the explosion occurred. Another
was to the door of the school’s
chemical laboratory, and the third
was to the engineering drafting
room.
John Eidom, 29, of Port Arthur,
told police he had no idea how an-
other key to his room could have
been obtained. Eidom is chairman
of the dormitory student commit-
tee.
Officers, trying to reconstruct
the bomb, assembled from the
111 Tell the
WORLD...
By Rufus F. Higgs
T)OW.k THRU the years the men
and wcArien who sell life insur-
ance have played an important
part in the welfare of Stephenville
and; Erath county. So often when
strikes and emergency
the Insurance policy brings
immediate relief to thoee in die-
tress. On many occasions the head
of the family has been called by
death when his finances were stag-
gering under the heavy load of
added burdens brought on by con-
ditions often not of his making—
and the paid-up insurance policy
helped a lot with clearing up debts
and other items of burial expense.
That’s a long story and one that
most of us know well.
GOME OF OUR BEST citizen*
° end most successful business
fJB
insurance. pEB
name of Oren Ellis who has been
on the jab continuously since 1919
as the district, representative of
the State Life Insurance Company
of Indianapolis. A bulletin just re-
ceived by this department shows
his record of accomplishment for
the year 1949 to be one. of . the high-
est in the United States, at least
as far as fils company is concern-
ed. Out of' 10 iMn Who ere top
producers, Mr. Ellis has second
place in the nation with the State
Life. Time and again, says the
bulletin, Mr. Ellis has been the
company’s national leader. Repeat-
,Jt■ he has been a high-ranking
^Brnber of the Big Ten. Not all
fhe successful men in the country
operate in the metropolitan cen-
ters. Evidence can be found in the
urd made by Oren Ellis. Con-
stulations, Mr. Ellis. On the
its of results you have done a
uderful job and at the same time
made it possible for Stephenville
to have its name pieced before
-leading citizens-in every state in
the union.
ASA CHURCH MAN. civic
leader and public benefactor
Oren Ellis holds another record.
Like ell successful men he somc-
■ndeaerved criticism.
1 hand, if a Nat of his
could be listed bore,
'a great deal mere
la available hs this
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bad.
Rescue Work Hampered
Rescue work etas hampered be-
cause relief workers had to travel
far into the Arkansas hinterlands
to evacuate the stricken. Some
amphibious trucks made BO-mile
round trips to reach families.
Meanwhile, the flood danger in
Illinois, Indiana and Missouri was
abating as the Ohio dumped its
winter crest into the Mississippi.
The Wabash River-was felling at
Vincennes, Ind., threatened seri-
ously earlier in the week, and the
Ohjo was on a stand at old Shaw,
nee town, 111.
The Memphis district engineer
indicated that a statement would
be. issued soon announcing aban-
donment of plans' to flood a 131,-
000-acre floodway in Missouri. The
army, had planned to open the
Bird’s Point-New Madrid floodway
to save more important areas
threatened earlier this week.
About 10,000 persons who fled
from their homes in the floodway
area were making plans to return
soo*,-
Warmer weather overswept most
of the country after a chin wave
which caused a rash of fires that
took 45 lives in as many hours.
Moat of the fire* were caused by
overheated or exploding stoves.
The dead included eight in Min-
nesota, seven each in New Jersey
end Illinois, five in Missouri, four
in Michigan, three each in Arkan-
sas, Connecticut, Washington and
Maine, and one in Massachusetts
and Iowa.
System Soon
AUSTIN, Jan. 21 (UP)—The
University of Texae Board of Re-
gents decided today to install a
chancellorship system due to the
growth of the 16,000-student school
and its branches.
In a formal statement, the board
said that a six-member committee
was named to make plans for set-
ting up the new system and will
report back at a Feb. 24 meeting
of the board.
“The growth of the University
of Texas,” the board spicj, '“and its
various branches has produced ad-
ministrative problems which can-
not bo handled effectively under
-the >xisting arrangement.”
“To meet this situation,” the re-
gents added, “the Board of Regents
has decided to install a chancellor-
ship system as soon as the details
of administration have beenwork-
ed out.”
The committee named by the
board was composed of University
President T« S. Painter, chairman;
Vice-President C. D., Leake of the
medical branch; Dr. Frederick G.
Elliott, vice-president and dean of
the dental school; President Wilson
H. Elkins of Texas Western Col-
lege; Vice-President and Comptrol-
ler C. D. Simmons and C. R. Cran-
berry, assistant to President Pain-
ter.
Board Chairman Dudley K. Wood-
ward Jr. of Dallas said yesterday
that the plan was “all purely in
the ^discussion stage.”
screwed on one end of the pipe,
and that the entire lethal gadget
was .wrapped in newspaper.
Police experts said the bomb
was devised by packing a pound
of TNT into a one-foot section of
pipe, and oovering CTie explosive
with bits of* brick and wads of
BOMBINGS NOT
NEW AT RICE
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HOUSTON, Jan. 21 (UP)—Cam-
pus bombings, viewed until today
as student pranks in an anti-hazing
war, are not new to Rice Institute.
Crude grenades devised from
Beer cans, a little flash powder and
cardboard have been set off near
the homes of at least two leaders
in a movement to banish hazing of
freshmen students. '
One in October
In OctoBer, one such bomb ex-
ploded outside the heme of F. M.
Lankford, whose son, Raymond, is
an 18-year-old junior at Rice. f
The blast scattered fragmen(s
ih a six-foot radius and knocks
out several windows in the Lank\
ford home.
A similar contraption exploded
in the yard of the home of Farrell
Fulton Jr., 20, a senior student.
Both Lankford and Fulton have
crusaded against hazing. Lank-
ford, a student councilman, author-
ed an anti-hazing resolution.
Connally Labels Vishinsky
Attack “Unstatesmanlike”
A
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (UP)—
ChShmiM Tom Connally of the
Senate forei
said today
Minister An
wm
te foreign relations committee
m that Soviet Foreign
ndrei Y. Vishinsky was
unstatesmanlike in his attack on
Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
t Vishinsky, in a Moscow state-
ment, aecuspd Acheson of “uncere-
monious lying” in saying last week
that Russia is annexing Northern
Chin*.
State Department officials with-
held comment for the time being
on Viahinkky’s charges.
But Connally told a new*' con-
ference he was “amused” at Vis-
hinsky’s “distemperate and angry
language.”
“Mr. Vishinsky does not talk like
a foreign minister,” the. Texas
Democrat said: “He uses language
unfitted to courteous and states-
manlike communications or, con-
tact. He talks like he did when he
w*s prosecuting, and having exe-
cuted, the victims of the pdrge
some years ago in Russia.” •
t Other Connally Views
Connally also:
1. Backed up Acheson’S recent
statement that the United States
will support a United Nations res-
olution permitting UN member
countries to resufie full diplomatic
relations with Spain. ;
2. Said he “assumed” an effort
would bf made in Congress to re-
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verse Thursday’s Hose action in
defeating by two votes a bill to
grant South Korea an additional
$60,000,000 in economic aid.
3. Said Acheson will meet with
his committee Tuesday to discuss
implications of the Chinese Com-
munist ssizure of U. S. consulate
Alger Hiss Found
Guilty of Perjury
NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (UP)—
A federal court jury today found
Alger Hiss guilty of pefjury.
The jury of eight women and
four men reported at 2:48 p.m.
that it had found the 45-year-old
former State Department official
guilty on both counts of the in-
dictment.
Hiss was charged with lying
when he denied under oath that
ha had stolen State Department
secrets in 19S8 for dellvsry to
Whittaker Chambers, an admitted
courier for a Communist syp ring, * hot iss
That was the first count. fHcans ju
The second count said he lied m
denying that he had seen Cham-
bers after Jan. 1, 1987.
The verdict wee reported by the
jury foreman, Mrs. Ada CotMell,
a Hr on M homswliis t'
property at Peiping and the recall
of all American officials in China.
A Defense Secretary Louis John-
son and Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
chairman of the chiefs of staff,
will testify Wednesday on the mil-
itary implications of threatened
Communist invasion of the Chinese
Nationalist island of Formosa.
Leaders of the anti-administra-
tion coalition of Republicans and
Southern Democrats blamed dis-
sident GOP members for their fail-
ure to seize control of the House.
They noted that 64 Republicans
joined with Democrats to throw
back, 286 to 183, the coalition's at-
tempt to reetore life-snd-death
powers over House legislation to
the conservative House rules com-
mittee. The vote was a major ad-
ministration victory.
Rep. E. E. Cox, 0., Ga., and
other coalition leaders attributed
the GOP deflections to the fact
that President Truman's fair em-
ployment practices bill would have
been jeopardised by the rules
change.
“In some states where FEPC ia
ue," said one, “the Repub-
just had their feet held too
close to the fire.” /
People Behind Truman
Administration laagers said, how-
ever, that the vote showed Tru-
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paper. They believed it was set off
with a fuse and a detonating cap.
The explosion tore a two-foot
hole in the tile and plaster dormi-
tory wall. Glass sprayed across
the beds of several students. Four
doors were blown from their hinges
and glass transoms were smashed.
George Strouhal, 19-year-old stu-
dent from Alvin, was studying at
the time of the explosion.
He heard the noise and then saw
a thick cloud of white smoke bil-
low through the hallways. Stu-
dents raced to another building to
call firemen, believing the build-
ing was on fire.
Prank or Murder Attempt ,
Police were baffled Ida to wheth-
er the incident was a stydent prank
or an attempt at mass murder.
The five-floor dormitory houses 125
students in its north wing alone.
Capt. Edward Mollering, super-
intendent of the police identifica-
tion bureau, took bomb fragments
and bits of brick for analysis. He
said it might be possible to trace
the piping.
Patrolman G. L. Bankston, one
of the first policemen to reach the
scene, believed the time element
saved students from death.
“There was at least a pound of
TNT in the bomb. Had it been
placed just right, it could have
killed everybody in the vicinity.
But whoever placed it was obvi-
ously in a hurry, anxious to get
out of the building,” he noted.
Dr. William V. Houston, Rice In-
stitute president, viewed the ex-
plosion as a “student prank.”
He was certain, he added, that
the blast had no conn action with
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Sgt. James R. Inglis Jr., for the
pest 18 months the U. S. Army-
Air Force recruiting officer in
Stephenville, has received his
transfer orders.
Inglis has been ordered to re-
port February 2 to the Connally
Air Force Base at Waco.
He will be attached to the
3565th Basic Pilot Training Wing
and will be an instructor on the
Link Trainers at the base.
AMERICAN COMMANDANT RETURNS
RAILWAY BUILDING TO RUSSIANS
BERLIN, Jan. 21. (UP)—-The United States backed down in
the face of a threatened new Soviet blockade of Berlin today and
gave back to the Russians a disputed railway administration
building in the Amer^an set-tor.
It was the first time that the Americans have retreated in
a major Berlin dispute with the Russians since the Soviets im-
posed their 11-month blockade on Western Berlin in the spring
of 1948.
sajs against rail workers, and gen-
erally (p disturb the peace of the
city.”
“Unfortunately,” he said, “the
unreasonable and provocative at-
titude of the Sbviets and of the
Reichsbahn (the Soviet-controlled
railway administration) makes it
appear probable that the hardships
which they intend to impose out-
weigh the benefits arising from this
American plan . . .
“The (’>00 office rooms are not
worth the threat of a new block-
ade.”
Move Eased Tension.
Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,
Berlin’s-- American commandant,
ordered West German police out
of the building at 5 p.m. and re-
turned it to the SovieGcontrolled
railway administration.
West German police seized con-
trol of the building Tuesday on
American instructions so that its
600 empty rooms could be bsed for
the benefit of space-short Western
Berliners. The Soviets and their
East Berlin Communist associates
hinted broadly that they might re-
impose their blockade of Western
Berlin in reprisal.
Taylor said the Soviets used the
seizure of the building as “an ex-
cuse to harass the residents of
Western Berlin, to threaten repri-
—r-
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WIRE
FLASHES
By UNITED PRESS
ROAD TO PANAMA
LAREDO, Jan. 21. (UP)—A
U. S. Bureau of Roads photo-
graphic team left here today for a
three-month picture-making tour
of the inter-American highway to
RSnama. The group, headed by
J. L. Harrison of Washington,
planned to make three movies—
one of business development, one
Of scenic attractions and one of
historic background of the road.
SANDRA’S GIRL FRIEND STILL
IN CUSTODY YOUTH COUNCIL
AUSTIN, Jan. 21. (UP)—Travis county authorities said today
that Loretta Fae Mozingo is in the custody of the Texas Youth
Development Council “as far as we are concerned,” but that actual
commitment must be made by authorities at Brady.
Frank Campbell, Travis county probation officer, said that a
formal commitment must be made at Brady. The girl then would
probably be sent to -the Gainesville School for Girls, he said.
The Youth Development Council has never taken any action in
regard to the 15-yeai-old companion of Sandra Peterson, convicted
by a jury at Brady of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Campbell said that “we have terminated any further connection”
with Loretta Fae.
Tie“satoTThat The gfrl was Committed tb Custody of tfic council
by District Judge J. H#i;ris Gardner. However, later the commit-
ment was suspended and she was placed in custody of S. L. Bell-
amy, then Travis county probation officer.
Loretta Fae was later sent to the Home of the Good Shepherd in
San Antonio. She escaped from there. Judge Gardner reinstated
her commitment to the Youth Development Council last fall.
Counsel For Sandra
Undecided, Appeal
BRADY, Jan. 21. (UP)—Mrs.
Sandra Peterson waited today in
a jail cell she could “never call
home” as her defense counsel de-
cided whether £6 appeal a verdict
which would place her behind bars
for life.
A jury of farmers and ranchers
MURDERER SUED
LAREDO, Jan. 21. (UP)—Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Tighe of Hunts-
ville, Tenn., parents of a man killed
in a hotel here last July, have sued
the man charged with his murder
for $55,000 damages. The suit was . - , ., ..
filed against George Ochoa, Laredo I *®st night found the 18-year-old
broker who is charged with killing
Henry Whittenburg Jr., McAllen,
and James Lindsay, Huntsville,
Tenn. Lindsay’s parents said
Ochoa, now being sought’ in Mex-
ico, “wilfully and wrongfully with
malice aforethought” killed Llnd-
J.
COLLISION FATAL
ALAMO, Jan. 21. (UP)-J. W.
Pace, 20, president of the Weslaco
High School senior class of ’48,
died yesterday of injuries received
when his motorcycle collided with
an automobile near here. His death
brought the lower Rio Grande
Valley’s traffic toll for 1960 to
eight, seven above this date a year
•go.. *.
WEEK-ENDS IN VALLEY
MISSION^ Jan. 21. (UP)—Gov.
Allan Shivers relaxed at his lower
Rio Grande home here today, after
his arrival from Austin last night.
The govern of planned to return to
Austin Sunday morning and be
back in his office Monday.
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The great editor, Horace Gree-
ley, looked ap from his desk
and an irate man waved a copy
of that day’s paper ia his hand
as hs roared, “I’m hot dead.”
Greeley agreed with the declar-
stfion
“Well,” the visitor continued,
“yoa’ve listed me in the Deaths
*nd I want a correction.” Gree-
ley replied, “No, we won’t ran
a correction; but we’ll give yen
a fresh start in life—we’R list
you in the Births tomorrow.”
Greeley persisted in regard-
ing the word “news” as plural.
He wired to a staff correspond-
ent, “Are there aay news to-
day?” The cor res pendent wired
back, “Not a single new."
A bore declared, “I am a self-
made Inan.**.Horace Greeley, the
famous editor remarked. “That
relieves the Almighty ef a grant
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Massachusetts girl guilty of mur-
der with malice aforethought in
the roadside slaying and robbery
of a Brady realtor.
They sentenced her to life im-
prisonment after deliberating
more than five hours.
She was found guilty of killing
Lewis Patterson, a businessman
who had given her and a hitch-
hiking companion, 15-year-old Lor-
etta Fae Mozingo, a lift.
The verdict came despite Lor-
etta Fee's admission on the wit-
ness stand that she, and not San-
dra, held the gun which killed
Patterson.
If her two court-appointed at-
torneys decide to appeal the case,
the move will have to be made by
lawyer Ross Hoffman. Th<^ other
defense attorney, Bill Alcorn, takes
over as district attorney here Feb.
1. *»
Hoffman was asked if he had de-
cided to appeal the case. “I haven’t
decjded yet,” he said. “There is
ample time and I’m in no hurry.
It will take a little time for me
to make up my mind. I will cop-
sider the welfare of the defendant
in making a decision.”
“Quiet As A Funeral.”
“It’s quiet as a funeral in here,"
the icy-faced brunette remarked in
the McCulloch county sheriff’s
office a few minutes after she
heard her fate pronounced.
Outside gawking bobby-spxers
and elderly men and women stood
on the courthouse lamp, trying to
peer through blfnd-s'hrouded win-
dow*.
“It almost was a funeral," re-
torted a guard.
“Well, I’m stiil here," Sandra
shot back.
After 15 minutes’ rest, the
accused by the prosecution
ing “more dangerous than a rattle
snake” and not fit “to breathe the
fresh air of West Texas” was
asked if she was ready- to “go
home," meaning back to jail.
“I’m never ready," sha replied.
”1 could never call it home;”
Officers led her to a police car
for the two-block trip to the county
jail. Tho curious lined the streets
of this small Texas town.
They had packed the courtroom
to double its seating capacity and
then overflowed on stairways and
windswept fire eecapea for the
le girl
of oe-
climax ..of the sensational trial.
They had remained quiet oh order
of Judge A. 0. Newman as Tie
solemnly read the jury’s decision.
Takes Verdict "Calmly.
Sandra took it calmly, clasping
her hands tightly,’ compressing her
lips, working her jaw muscles
slightly. No other signs of ner-’
vousness showed as she eyed the
jurymen complacently.
“I’m still on my feet,” was her
first reaction when someone asked
her how she felt about the verdict.
Was life imprisonment worse
that she expected ?
“Naw,” she shook her head.
The defense contended “the
State has gone after the wrong
woman” after Loretta Fae admit-
ted she held the gun which killed
Patterson.
Asked why she remained silent
while Sandra was charged with
murder, the Mozingo girl testified,
“I didn’t want to go to the electric
chair first. I wanted her jo go.” “
On the witness stafid, 'Sandra
said she didn’t Know who killed
Patterson.
Fake Suicide Attempt.
Authorities said Loretta Fae
“got up grinning” from a “fake”
suicide attempt in her jail cell
yesterday. They found her on the
floor, holding her breath with a
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Hico Contractor
In Fair Condition
At Local Hospital
Marvin Bailey, the Hico far-
mer and plasteringcontractoriwho
was seriously injured in a high-
way accident last Wednesday i mor-
ning, was reported Saturday morn
ing only in.fair condition by Ste-
phenville Hospital attendants.
Donald Gene, 16-year-old son,
hospitalized in the same mishap,
was reported to be making satis-
factory progress by the local hos-
pital.
Two other sons, Jimmy, aged 7,
and Buddy Frank, 1. were releas-
ed from the hospital Friday af-
ternoon after being treated for
lacerations suffered in the col-
lision.
Bailey, 50, was driving to work
at the county court house when
his car collided with a truck own-
ed by the local Coca-Cola Bottling
Co., six miles south of Stephen-
ville on Highway $1. The Hico
contractor has a sub-contract for
the plastering work at the court
house.
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Taylor’s order to return the
headquarters to the Soviet rail ad-
ministration apparently resolved
the East-West Tension.
The Russians had made it clear
in imposing some restrictions on
traffic, notably a slowdown in Ber-
lin elevated railway service and
the stopping of some trucks op-
erating between Berlin and West
Germany, that they were doing so
because- of the seizure of the build-
ing in the American sector here.
It was held by the Russians un-
der . four■-'power agreement giving
them control over the Berlin rail-
ways. The Russians largely had
vacated the building after the Ber-
lin rail strike last year. The Ger-
man police took it on the conten-
tion that the hundreds of vacant
offices were needed.
West Berlin police reported a
truck convoy loaded with furniture
and other household items was
turned back At the Matfenbottt
checkpoint on the Soviet zone bor-
der 92 miles west of Berlin. , .
The gesture threatening reitn-
position of the Berlin blockade was
taken as Russia’s answer to West-
ern action in seizing the unoccupied
German railway administration
building in Western Berlin.
Western police occupied the
building early this week so that
the Western Berlin city govern-
ment could make use of its 600
empty offices abandoned by the
Soviets after the bloody Berlin
railway strike last summer.
Feared Retaliation
The ratlway administration is
operated by the Russians, . They,
moved out of the Western sector
because they feared retaliation for
the bloody manner jn which they
tried to pot down the strike——
Police reported the Soviet action
at Marienborn was one of the
longest mass stoppages since the
Berlin blockade was lifted last May
9 after nearly a year.
The Russians were forced to lift
the blockade when it failed in its
object of forcing the Western pow-
ers out of Benin and a counter-
blockade imposed by the Western
powers began to kill the economy
of the Soviet zone.
Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,
American commandant of Berlin,
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18 Members TSC
Faculty, Staff
Belong to C of C
The affairs of community and
college share like interest in the
lives of 18 members of the faculty
and administrative officers of Tar-
leton State College.
This unusual information was
brought to light as the member-
ship roster of the Stephenville
Chamber of Commerce was being
checked for additions, or removals,
preparatory to the issuance of the
new 1950 list.
The word “unusual” is used' in a
definitive manner in that the col-
lege and campus life of busy of*
Heals and faculty members Usually
demand the greatest majority of
their time. This is not the case at
the Stephenville -institution.
Heading the list of individual
members of the local organization
from TSC is President E. J. How-
ell. Dean Emeritus J. Thomas Da-
vis is also an active and interested
member in the .civic body.
Other TSC staff members iden-
tified with the activities of the
Chamber of Commerce are Dean
Paul Cunyus, H. C. Itoremus, R.
G. Fanning, Laura Eellman, R.sit.
Friou, Dollie M. Glover, J. v.
Laird, Doyle Graves, J. A. Hart,
Don W. Morton. L. G. Rich, A. J.
Spangler. J. E. Tompkins, Jack
Utterback and Mary Hope West-
brook.
Among the current list of direc-
tors for the Chamber of Commerce
from the TSC group will be found
Deen Cunyus, Graves and Rich.
President Howell was among the
group of directors retiring at the
dote of the 1949 term of office.
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