Widow Gets Award
From Disaster
GALVESTON, f/P) — A jury
ruled in favor of the widow of a
victim of the Texas City disaster
in her suit for compensation for
the death of her husband.
Mrs. Jessie J. Ayala, mother of
eight children, Monday was
awarded 360 weeks compensation
at $20 per week. After a discount
for immediate payment, the sum
will total around $6,000.
The Texas Employers Insurance
association was the defendant.
George T. Ayala was a long
shoreman. killed in the blast of
last April.
The jury deliberated just 22
minutes in the first jury trial
growing out of the disaster, in
which more than 500 were killed
or missing.
Some Denis. With
draw From Party
RIDGELAND, S. C. (/P)—Jasper
county Democrats have voted
themselves out of the national
party in protest against President
Truman’s civil rights program.
The county’s Democratic execu
tive committee last night unani
mously adopted a resolution of
withdrawal. A crowd estimated at
1,500 roared approval as 44 mem
bers of the committee voted in the
high school auditorium. Five com
mittee members were absent.
“The shackles of slavery arc cut
from the ankles of the people of
Jasper,” declared commi t t t e e
chairman H. Klugh Purdy, who
submitted the resolution. “I here
by announce that the first round
of the fight for democracy was
won by a knockout.”
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Wallace Gets
Running Mate
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Glen Taylor of Idaho has kissed
the Democratic ticket goodbye to
become No. 2 man on the Henry
A. Wallace ticket.
“I am not leaving the Demo
cratic party, it left me.” Taylor
told a radio audience last night.
“Wall street and the military have
taken over.”
All the major parties offr\ he
said, is a choice between “a Re
publican tweedle dum and a Dem
ocratic tweddle dummcr.”
Taylor said as far as he is con
cerned that leaves the third party
as the place to fight for “the prin
ciples in which I believe.” ,
“I’m in this to win,” the 43-'
year-old Idahoan told reporters at
a news conference after his speech.
"I have confidence and faith. I
think I’ll get to be vice president.”
The one-time “crooning cow
boy” said he agrees with Wallace
that “you’ve got to believe we can
work with Russia—or give up
hope and prepare for the end of
the wmrld.
Judge Criticizes
War Crimes Trials
Westover Air Force Base, Mass.
(>P)—Judge Charles F. Wenners
trum yesterday stood pat on his
criticism of the German war
crimes trials as failing to “attain
objectivity aloof from vindictive
ness” and offered to match his loy
alty to the United States against
that of any army general who ac
cused him of “subversive” talk.
Wennerstrum. a justice of the
Iowa supreme court, arrived here
by plane from Nuernberg, where
he presided at the trial of 10 Ger
man commanders for war crimes
including the killing of hostages.
Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, ch;ef
American prosecutor in Germany,
had charged the interview given
by Wennerstrum just before leav
ing was “subversive of the inter
ests and policies of the United
States.”
Taking issue with Taylor’s as
sertion this interview — given a
Chicago Tribune reporter—wouli
be “used by all the worst elements
in Germany against the best,”
Judge Wennerstrum said he felt
instead it "might be helpful in
bringing the Germans to think as
people do in a democracy.”
Snow-Fog May
Have Caused Para
troopers Deaths
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that he and Munz landed their sin
gle engine ski-equipped planes
with difficulty on a lake three
miles /rom the crash and had gone
less than 250 feet before every
thing was blotted out. The two
men had difficulty in finding their
small craft and made no further
attempt at ground travel.
Later they put their planes down
on a steep hillside near the wreck,
landing uphill and upwind. When
the bomber crewmen had been
loaded aboard they angled to the
top of the ridge and “fell off” into
the wind.
Both Whaley and Munz were
awarded the army’s air medal for
their rescue.
The three ’chutists who died on
their mercy-mission were Sgt.
Santhell London, of Kinta, Okla.,
T/5 Leon J. Casey of Los Angeles,
and Lt. Labert Kinney, Jr., of
Hardwick, vt.
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