Avalanche-Journal (Newspaper) - June 21, 1953, Lubbock, Texas Weather Warm See Lower Column 8 The LUBBOCK Price Volume 27 No 42 68 Pages In 7 Sections Lubbock Texas Sunday June Entered as Second Mailer at the Posi Office tt Lubbock Texas turner Acl ol March 3 1879 Full Leased Wires AP UP And INS Late Hour By FRED BAUMAN Staff Writer ON THE eve of his trial 21 yearold Walter E Whitaker accused of murdering Lubbock High School girl Joyce White said that he was glad its coming to a head one way or the In the first interview granted a reporter since January of this year the slender youth now look ing gaunt and weary shortly be fore midnight Saturday pressed his forehead against the gray steel bars that had kept him from freedom for and in a soft faltering voice told in a sur prising meeting what he thinks about facing a jury of his peers at Vernon this week Xot Alraid Of Trial Asked if he thought the press had given him a fair play in its coverage of the case and espec in its recent stories recount ing the murder and his confine ment he said Naturally a person in my posi tion feels that the newspapers are stirring up the coals a little But Ive only read one or two stories since the beginning of my confine ment To the question was he afraid of his he answered not exactly in the sense of the word fear Hates To Face Mother 7m Glad Its Coming To A Whitaker Says On Eve Of Trial Youth Grants Interview At South Korean Tanks Free POWs 28 Called As Witnesses In Murder Case By MAY Staff Writer WALTER E Whitaker will be taken to some time today where his trial for the der of Joyce Fern White will get underway at 9 Monday Sheriff Grady Harrist declined to say just when Whitaker will be transferred to the Wilbarger County Jail but it was considered almost a certainty that the 190 mile trip would set under way some time early this morning The 21yearold former Reese Air Force cadet faces charges of mur der with malice in the strangula tion death of the pretty Lubbock High School senior He was charged in late January after a 20day search for the miss ing girl ended on Jan 28 when her nude body was recovered from a shallow cotton patch grave a short way from the air base May Ask Death Sentence Dist Atty Travis Shelton de to say Saturday whether he The hardest thing about the j will ask the death penalty for the whole trial will be facing Joyces slender youth but all j mother or any member of her indications were that he will i The Whitaker trial ranks along with several other South Plains i he admitted About the outcome of his case he said that he had a lot of con in his attorneys I will plead not guilty to the he said He did not elucidate on this statement and murder cases in attracting nation wide attention and sensationalism Shelton will be assisted in the prosecution of Whitaker by Assist ant Dist Atty Forrest Bowers left doubts as to whether he felt G Dupree guilty of the murder but not guilo Lubbock mA Dist ty on murder with malice as the Douglas of Vernon AUJ indictment charges Defense strategy will be planned Hands Open Shot He smiled a little bitterly when he admitted that he had no alter of the ing the steel hands bars opened and the shut alternately throughout interview But he did say that he would appeal a guilty verdict to a high er court In Texas a review following death sentence from a lower court is by Burton Burks and Buck McNeil Lubbock law partners No indica i line but FATHER ANYTHING YOU WANT Whatever you want father the family is there to attend to it That special day Fathers Day has arrived John G King 1914 25th was receiving the undivided attention of his family when the above photograph was made John Paul 11 was putting a on his father Karla Joe 8 was standing ready with gifts and Mrs King was giving her husband a cup of while King lounged in an easy chair Staff Photo RAIDING SQUADS BLANKET EAST GERMANY Reds Arrest Thousands By TOM REEDY ERLIN June 20 Whitaker himself laid the founda raiding parties rocketed a possible plea of through rebellious East Germany tonight in the greatest police ac tion the Germans have seen since insanity Oral Confession After making an oral confession to Texas Ranger Captain Raymond a Waters and others following a sec 1 ond lie detector test in Austin Whitaker was whisked swiftly back to Lubbock to point out Joyces Russian and East German Com untold thousands in the surround munist secret police were seeking workers who blew a virtual civil war into the open last Wednesday with strikes arson and bare Rhee Firm In Face Of New UN Warning By International News Service June 21 military sources in the Far East today that Presi dent Syngman Rhee will continue to jeopardize a Korean truce despite a stern reminder from Gen Mark Clark that ail Rhees forces are still under UN control At the same time the UN com mand pondered Communist de mands for a crackdown on the South Korean leader and his government There was also a study of the hint laid down by the Reds that a Korean truce agreement was possible without the southern republics signature The first public opposition to Rhee came in South Korea today when his most influential political enemy called on him to return the released POWs and accept the truce Runs Into Opposition Cho Byong Ok former home minister of Korea and dor to the United States said that the release of the POWs was a i blunder that might bring trophe to the Korean people A high State Department official i is scheduled to leave Washington j today or Monday for Korea where he will act as special representa tive to Rhee from President j Eisenhower and Secy of State I Dulles Without closing the door on a truce Communist leaders in a tense plenary session Saturday bitterly assailed Rhees arbitrary action freeing over anti Red POWs Reds Demand Recapture The Reds demanded recapture ing Soviet zone from the Oder to of the prisoners They accused GEN MARK CLARK War Of Words And Bullets SPURRED BY REDS To Speed Missile Plans Hitler smashed the bomb attempt Three thousand men were re r JCA mi handed noting against Red rule rioting was on his life in 1944 ported jailed in East Berlin and It was the last night he would lo VU spend in the Lubbock County jail body was raised before being moved to Vernon I am on to end a by Sheriff Grady Harrist sometime I search that had begun when walked out of her home today As Chief Deputy Lee Rice slow ly turned the control wheel that on the night of Jan 8 But after that Whitaker clam opened the door to Whitakers UP refusing to make a writ See TOUTE GRANTS Page 10 Soviets Claimed Easing Cold War By The Associate i ten statement concerning the death of the girl who had loved and trusted him He said that he had blacked out after watching Joyces face turn blue as he tight ened a Venetian cord around her neck After that he said he couldnt remember anything until the little pieces began to fall into place many days later He told newsmen a blow wh at Vernon tch as he attorneys ques in an state undoubtedly will the See WHITAKER TRIAL Paje 10 WASHINGTON June 20 Gen i nn Omar N Bradley has t o 1 d senators he believes Russia is i pulling back in the cold war because the Soviets fear increased I U S military strength and need time to consolidate their position j at home The senators were informed that Bradley believes Russia is steadily increasing its atomic bomb stock pile and now is shipping jet air craft to Soviet satellite states Bradley retiring chairman of of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testi fied recently before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the administrations foreign aid and his testimony was made public today The aid designed to strengthen foreign nations militar ily and economically totals in the form it passed the House last night The Senate Reservations For Officials Of Big Three In Bermuda Cancelled HAMILTON Bermuda June 20 reservations for Brit ish French and American officials scheduled to attend a conference here June 29th were cancelled Saturday J H Bonham Carter of the British foreign office in Bermuda cancelled the June 29 at the and the Castle Harbor Hotel at 2 cst ROSENBERG FUNERALS SET TODAY Friends Move lo Tag On Executed Atomic Spies the Elbe An American student arrested in East Berlin during Wednesdays lly released and returned safely to the U S sec tor tonight He was Rudolph Kass 22 Cedarhurst N who is en rolled at the Free University in West Berlin Revolt Is The Communists admitted for the first time that there had been a putsch rebellion in East Ger many The official ADN the Allies of conniving with South Korea in the deal Clark sent a stern letter to j Rhee Saturday but some military officials feel that it wont do any There are a number of nasty moves Rhee can make with the j use of his a military auj said and there is noti much we can do about it without using bullets And I dont think we are ready to start fighting our By BOB CONSIDINE I Vanzetti NEW YORK June 20 INS A i The bodies of the man and wife Sunday funeral and a graveside I sy team who died in sini monument were planned tonight I SmS s electric chair were claimed as the first apparent moves to thls afternoon in the name of carve martyr niches for Ethel mother Mrs Sophie Rosen and Julius Rosenberg as latterday I DerS by a home several East Germans counterparts of Nicola Sacco and Renting the National Committee to working force had Secure Justice in the Rosenberg risen jn bosses Case news agency and the party press published dispatches from a score of cities dedicated to the theme j Western agents and Fascists pro the putsch that it was smashed and that the rank and file has pledged to go back to work By the Communists own listing of trouble spots it became clear Clarks headquarters in Tokyo released the text of a letter from See RHEE Page 10 Killed In Fire Wipe Your Brow Friend Its Hot fid ally reservations for Mid Ocean Club committee has approved No explanation for the cancella Sce Page 10 tion was given immediately WACO YOUTH POST DeMolay Delegates To Wind Up Annual State Meet Here Today Pity the sweltering Lubbock area residents if they believe in dictionary definitions For 11 to be officially ar rives And Webster says this is the warmest period of this But for most who simmered under 97de gree temperatures Saturday and for more than a week have been caught in one of the hottest spells on record summer is merely a word in the dictionary And the Lubbock weather man didnt have much new to offer in the way of heat relief See SUMMER DUE Page 10 AH that remained of the first convicted spies executed by the was taken from Sing Sing to the I J Morris Fu neral Home in Brooklyn and there an honor guard of two persons was established over the caskets A spokesman for the Rosenberg committee announced the bodies would lie in state at the home throughout tonight and until serv ice at the same place at 2 to morrow Burial will be in Well wood Cemetery Pine Lawn Long Island near Farmingdale Rabbi Abraham Cronbach of Cincinnati who was active in the save the full riots in East Berlin where men battled Communist po jja nd Russian tanks until two i J armored divisions tamped j By The Associated Press SWEETWATER June 20 One down the fires of revolt had See RED POLICE Page 10 12YearOld Wife Of Airman Stationed In Texas Is Mother DURANT June 20 12year old wife of an airman and one of kerosene exploded at at Perrin AFB Texas has intervals after the initial blast W person was burned fatally late as flames roared through a storage area only five the of exploded into flames after a big gallon tank burst at the Rob erts Oil Distributing Co warehouse area The firm dis tributes Sinclair products Five other big tanks of gasoline By EDWIN B WASHINGTON June 20 M V U S defense leaders con that Soviet Russia is making spectacular progress on guided missies will spend more than a billion dollars in this field during the next year This became known today with the release of testimony by defense experts asking ap proval of the multibillion dollar military program for the fiscal year starting July 1 Discuss Red Efforts Guided missiles are the most promising cf many new weap ons expected to be used in fu ture warfare and all three services are developing them Col J L Zoeckler Air Force witness discussed Russian ef forts on guided missiles at a session of the Sen ate Appropriations Subcommit tee and parts of his testimony were cleared for publication to day He recalled that Communist Russia many top Ger man scientists including guided missle experts saying Got German Talent Since the Soviets fell heir to considerable German talent in this field and have demon an ability to solve other critical problems we would be foolhardy not to give them credit for having an equal sur prise He also told senators that guided missiles have two sim ple purposes First to carry bombs to enemy targets and second to knock down enemy air The Air Force has two principal he continued pilotless aircraft types which are essentially high perform ance aircraft and guided air craft rockets which give great See MISSILE Page 10 Two Killed Eight Are Hurt In Auto Mishap Near Roby ROSY Texas June 20 persons were killed and eight were given birth to daughter H Sheridan firm manager injured today when a tire of their ing six pounds 11 ounces Thp mother is the former Mary Kendrick of Durant whose mother mated the loss at the warehouse car biew out The auto hit an em area alone at more than j 13 miles east of this Near midnight the flames were Rosenbergs campaign and ap Kendrick resides here considered under control directly a few days ago to i The girl eloped June 25 1952 and The damage estimate did not President Eisenhower lor married Sergio Tristan at Sherman elude two nearby homes destroyed cv will officiate Rabbi Cronbach i She gave her age as 17 is of Hebrew I MK Tristan was reported in Union College in Cincinnati good condition at the Perrin base By 10 police estimated hospital following birth of the child persons had filed past the bier The lines outside the chapel seemed undiminished as newcom by fire Dead was Mrs Vergie L West moreland 30 fatally burned when West Texas town Killed were Mrs Minnie Boat man 63 of Cisco and Margaret McGough 12 daughter of Sgt and Mrs Darries McGough of Sandia Proving Ground N M The sergeant 36 and his wife 29 the escaping gasoline her I driver of the car were among the GOOD MORNING By CHICK MORRIS Staff Writer in the ballroom of Hotel Lubbock was the crowning of the 195354 MORE than 750 delegates to the State DeMolay Sweetheart Texas State Chapter Order Cheryl Madison 18 Sweetheart of DeMolay wind up their meet of the Robert E Lee Chapter ing here today after a busy Sat program devoted to elec tion of officers crowning of the state sweetheart and the annual banquet Powers of the Waco Chap ter was elected State Master Councilor during the elections Saturday afternoon in the First Methodist Church He succeeds Jack Pruitt of Odessa who presid ed at all of the Saturday affairs Highlighting the evening ball NOW 79O On Your Radio STATION Houston She was crowned by David Hendrix Past State Mast er Councilor from Dallas Trophies and medals were pre sented during the annual banquet in the cafeteria of the High School program the Cleburne Chapter was awarded a trophy for winning the highest point total in athletic events The conclave is scheduled to end this afternoon On todays program are a Legion of Honor Breakfast at 8 the con ferring of Priory Degrees by the Texas Imperial Priory in the Caprock Hotel ballroom also at 8 the annual church and re dedication service at the Baptist Church scheduled for and the Priory Of luncheons in the Caprock at The session is sched MEET Page 10 In Todays Paper South Plains Farm News Page 1 Section 6 Traffic Dispersal Links Pages Section 5 Jal Celebration Is Held Page 1 Section 3 Derby Inspections Lagging Page 7 Section 1 Todays Editorial Page Page 6 Section 6 South Plains Oil News Pages 67 Section 2 Radio TV Programs Page 4 Section 5 Area Church News Pages 23 Section S VACATIONERS Attention While you are absent from home your carrier will be glad to save your papers for you then deliver them to Jou in full upon your return Just PHONE and ask the Circulation Department to a Vacation Pack for you Dont miss out on all the news and your features ers replaced those who had en tered the building Many men and women wore sport clothing and some women wore jeans Black paper skull caps were See ROSENBERG Page 10 Grandstand Falls During Review NORTH FORT HOOD June 20 IB temporary grandstand collaps ed and spilled 75 persons to the ground shortly before Gov Shivers reviewed a parade ending the first week of summer training for the 49th Armored Division Eleven persons were treated for minor injuries All were members service mens families gathered beneath huge canvas flies to protect them from the sun One of those hurt was Mrs Gas ton B Howard Longview whose husband Maj Gen Howard was one of those honored at the pa rade She suffered minor scratches Gov Shivers was welcomed by Maj Gei Albert S Johnson Dal las division commander The gov ernor reviewed an honor guard composed of tankers from Dallas infantrymen from Marshall and artillerymen from Wichita See SWEETWATER iage 10 ROK Troops Storm Camp Shots Fired i By WILLIAM C BARNARD SEOUL Sunday June 21 Nearly 700 more Korean War prisoners broke out of two Allied stockades last night and today some with the aid ol South Korean Army tanks and trucks The UN Prisoner of War Com mand said the ve were manned by Republic of Korea troops Guards Fired On The command said also that rifles and machine guns were fired by unknown per sons in support of the escapes One report Allied pri soner of war command said that South Korean soldiers fired on some of the American guards There were no reported casualties Capt Jack Vermeul POW com mand spokesman said machine gun and rifle fire from outside the Camp hamper ed American guards in their efforts to recapture escaping POWs Vermeul said reports that none of the fire was aimed at Ameri can guards might have come from South Korean sources He added that while he did not know officially whether the fire was i aimed directly at the Americans he did know that it was so close it kept the Americans back and covered the POW escapees The tanks battered down nine foot barbedwire fences and the trucks hauled away the freed POWs Asked for official comment on the use of U tanks and trucks for a purpose sharply i by the UN Command Dr j Karl Hong Kee official South Ko I rean government spokesman told i correspondents This government has issued or ders to release any Communist Korean prisoners of war and any j means of carrying out this I tive is considered by this govern as an order I Matter Of Policy I Wherever these prisoners are i held they are to be I is our i The tanks were used in a fresh i breakout from the POW camp ai j in Southwestern Ko I rea They probably came from an ROK Army training center nearby j About antiCommunist Ko I rean prisoners have burst out of j UN Command prison camps I throughout South Korea since j Thursday under orders of the South Korean government About have been recaptured There I were in the camps and in hospitals before the mass break I outs Approximately North captives still remain in the See SOUTH KOREAN Page 10 Reds Probe Sectors At Front SEOUL Sunday June 21 Chinese Red forces renewed their probing thrusts today against South Koreans in the River area of EastCentral Front but ignored sectors manned by Amer ican and other foreign troops 1 With two fresh divisions of i men thrown into the sec tor the Chinese gave every sign I of testing defenses for a new drive south like last weeks steamroller I attack which caved a I deep bend in the battle line Most Allied planes were ground ed Saturday TWO ESCAPE INJURY OFFUTT AIR BASE June 20 INS A jet train ing plane crashed and burned while landing at the east end of the eastwest runway at Offutt Air Base shortly before day but neither of the two airmen aboard the ship was injured Lubbock and vicinity Clear to partly cloudy today and Monday Not much change in temperature The low will be around 65 and the high near 100 m 53 P m 93 a m 63 p m 94 a m 60 p m 95 n m 60 p m 95 a m SO p m 96 a m 59 p m 98 a m 64 p m 94 a m 71 p m 88 a m 78 p jn 82 a m 85 p m 77 a m 89 p In 76 p m 91 a m 74 and low recordings at U S Weather Bureau station ir 24 6 p m yesterday Maximum 97 Minimum 59 Maximum a year aso today 97 mini mum a year aso today 7L Sun rises today a sun today p m Maximum humidity 635 minimum hu humidity ai midnight 35ft ROSENBERG DEFENDERS DEJECTED AFTER EXECUTIONS Emanuel Bloch chief counsel for the Rosenbergs sat in a New York hotel room Friday night after hearing his clients had died in the electric chair A companion in the fight to save the atom spies fied broke down and sobbed After a two year fight and seven appeals to the Supreme Court Bloch told newsmen American democracy died 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